{"title":"Bioceramics: From Clinic to Concept","authors":"Bryan J. Mc Entire","doi":"10.4172/2090-5025.1000E108","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It’s been over 25 years since Professor Larry Hench published his seminal article entitled “Bioceramics: From Concept to Clinic”[1] and more than 40 years since he first reported the peculiar bioactive properties of glass compositions within the Na2O-CaO-P2O5-SiO2 quaternary system [2]. Curiously, the investigative ideas which led him to develop Bioglass® did not have their origin in the laboratory. They were born from the clinical need to heal the horrible wounds incurred by servicemen returning from the Vietnam War. Indeed, after a conversation with a ranking army officer, his work began under a simple hypothesis:","PeriodicalId":127691,"journal":{"name":"Bioceramics Development and Applications","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioceramics Development and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-5025.1000E108","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It’s been over 25 years since Professor Larry Hench published his seminal article entitled “Bioceramics: From Concept to Clinic”[1] and more than 40 years since he first reported the peculiar bioactive properties of glass compositions within the Na2O-CaO-P2O5-SiO2 quaternary system [2]. Curiously, the investigative ideas which led him to develop Bioglass® did not have their origin in the laboratory. They were born from the clinical need to heal the horrible wounds incurred by servicemen returning from the Vietnam War. Indeed, after a conversation with a ranking army officer, his work began under a simple hypothesis: