Where are you getting your facts from buddy? Just point me to the literature that is backing up your claims and I will believe you. You stated that somewhere in the small print it said that CT-Bone is non resorbable. Just show me where it says that and set me straight. I want to see it, if it is true. If that claim of yours was made up on the other hand, then back down gracefully, and don't make s**t up in the future.
Overbiter,
Your response is pretty hostile in tone. Is that really necessary ?
The problem I have, is what I see in the following:
"The manufacturing of CT-Bone involves printing the designed implant using calcium phosphate, the primary constituent of natural bone. The advantage is that when this is implanted, the patient’s existing bone fuses with it just as it would with natural bone and unifies in a few months. It’s a bone-like implant that
allows bone to grow naturally into it.
As Maikel Beerens, CEO at Xilloc, said, “3D Printing of CT-Bone allows us to help even more patients with a tailor-made solution. After taking a CT-scan of the patient, a patient-specific implant is designed by our biomedical engineers in collaboration with the surgeon. This design perfectly fits on the anatomy of the patient,
ensuring good bone-to-implant contact and facilitating bony in-growth.” "
That is NOT a direct claim that the calcium phosphate is absorbed. It is not a direct claim that the calcium phosphate is replaced by new bone growth.
The best that can be said is that the CT-bone fits well to the mating surface (due to the digital 3D printing - - not the material ) and that facilitates intimate contact with the bone and that facilitates bony "in-growht".
Nor is that a claim that the calcium phosphate is replaced with natural bone.
Is it possible that at some point that we could have a complete bony infiltration that over time functions like real bone: Meaning that there will be an integral blood supply through a new periosteum layer and there will be internal bone marrow which is making new blood cells and which new bone could repair itself if fractured like natural bone repairs itself ? Yes. I suppose all of that is possible.
But at this point, that is still a long way in the future.
All of that is my opinion, based on my reading of the literature and the basic biology involved.
Regards