| Abstract
| - A new biphasic material composed of hydroxyapatite and a bioactive glass has beensynthesized. The starting materials were hydroxyapatite (HA), synthesized by a wet method,and gel obtained by a sol−gel method with composition in mol %, 55SiO2−41CaO−4P2O5(55S), both prepared before the mixture. This mixture was performed mechanically and hada final ratio HA/55S glass of 80:20. In vitro assays of bioactivity were carried out to comparethe behavior of the three materials. The biphasic material has shown good bioactivity,establishing that the addition of the bioactive glass to the hydroxyapatite accelerates theformation of a hydroxyapatite layer, enhancing the bioactivity of the synthetic HA.
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