Enrica Verne

TL;DR: A new unified method for testing dissolution rates of bioactive glasses and their variants, and the formation of calcium phosphate layer formation on their surface, which is an indicator of bioactivity is proposed and validated.

TL;DR: Morphological observations, image analyses, mechanical tests and in vitro tests showed that the obtained devices are good candidates as scaffolds for bone-tissue engineering, in terms of pore-size distribution, pore interconnection, surface roughness, and both bioactivity and biocompatibility.

TL;DR: A general overview of BGs is provided, with particular reference to their use in clinics over the last decades and the latest synthesis/processing methods, where the use of porous scaffolds is gaining growing importance thanks to the new possibilities given by technological progress extended to both manufacturing processes and functionalization techniques.

TL;DR: The objective is to provide the orthopaedic surgeons clear and concise information for the correct choice of cement in their clinical practice, focusing on properties, merits, and defects of the antibiotic loaded cement.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that these surface silver-doped glasses maintain, or even improve, the bioactivity of the starting glass, and compares those reported in literature for the antibacterial activity and the non-cytotoxic effect of silver.