Design, Materials, and Mechanobiology of Biodegradable Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering

Table 4

Properties of bone graft substitutes. Adapted from Ma and Elisseeff [150] and Brown et al. [151].

Property	Allograft	Polymers	Ceramics	Composites	Cell based therapies	Growth factors
Biocompatibility	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Osteoconductivity	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Osteoinductivity	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Osteogenicity	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No
Osteointegrity	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Mechanical match	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No