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Christian Heiss, Ralf Kraus, Dominique Schluckebier, Ann-Christin Stiller,
Sabine Wenisch, Reinhard Schnettler
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Adhesives, especially bone adhesives, are resorbed and
degraded to non-toxic products after fulfilling their
function in contact with the living organism. The use
of such bone adhesives has found growing interest in
all fields of medicine in the last 50 years. The dream of
trauma and orthopedic surgeons for alternatives to
osteosynthesis and pins is reflected in the development
of a variety of surrogates of biological or synthetic
origin. Despite a longstanding history of research in
this field up to now a clinically applicable alternative
could not have been found on the field of bone gluing.
The application consistently collapsed, because these
adhesives were not tailored to the conditions met
within the living organism. The following article is
meant to provide an overview of the development, the
state of the art and today’s knowledge of bone adhesives.
In addition, the article wants to pinpoint the
tremendous progress made on this subject, made
possible by the joint effort of basic researchers and
surgeons. The results show that in the future a
successful reconstructive surgery will emerge from the
application of synthetic biomaterials. |
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