ABSTRACT
This chapter gives an introduction to chemically bonded bioceramics (CBBCs) and the position of CBBCs in relation to other biomaterials based on metals, polymers, and other bioceramics. A detailed description of CBBCs will be presented in the subsequent chapters. 1.1 Chemically Bonded Bioceramics: An
OverviewBiomaterials in general are based on the materials’ groups’ metals, polymers, and ceramics [1]. Typical metallic biomaterials are based on stainless steel, cobalt-based alloys, and titanium or titanium alloys and amalgam alloys. Polymeric biomaterial composites from monomers are based on amides, ethylene, propylene, styrene, methacrylates, and/or methyl methacrylates. Biomaterials based on ceramics are found within all the classical ceramic families: traditional ceramics, special ceramics, glasses, glass-ceramics, coatings, and chemically bonded ceramics (CBCs) [2, 3]. Examples are given in Table 1.1.
