Osteoconductive ceramic composite biomaterial utilizing solution-polymerized acrylic carrier and method of manufacture

Abstract

Provided herein are surgical implants and methods of manufacturing the implants. The implants are generally osteoconductive composite implants utilizing minimally-crosslinked acrylic carriers combined with osteoconductive ceramics. The methods generally involve dissolving a monomer and an initiator in a solvent to form a reaction mixture, controlling the temperature and viscosity of the reaction mixture to allow solution polymerization, polymerizing the monomer in the reaction mixture to form an acrylic carrier, recovering the acrylic carrier, extruding the acrylic carrier with an osteoconductive ceramic to form an osteoconductive biomaterial, and processing the osteoconductive biomaterial to form the osteoconductive composite implant.

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