Review Article
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 |
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