Does bone cement have any side effects? What is the significance of bone cement to the human body?

Bone cement is used to repair trauma and fill diseased parts. It can help our body achieve the best effect through filling. However, some side effects may occur in the process of filling the human body. For example, the patient may have fat droplets entering the blood vessels due to increased pressure in the bone cavity, causing embolism. Everyone's bones are different, so different changes will occur during use. We need to be particularly careful and be prepared for precautions.

Application and Development

Of course, bone cement also has some disadvantages. For example, it may occasionally cause high pressure in the bone marrow cavity during filling, causing fat droplets to enter the blood vessels and cause embolism. In addition, it is different from human bones after all, and artificial joints may still become loose over time. In order to overcome the shortcomings of bone cement and better benefit patients, doctors and technicians are making improvements and enhancements in many aspects. On the one hand, improve the material formulation, and on the other hand, improve the replacement technology. Using a special bone cement gun for filling and placing a decompression tube can reduce complications and be safer. For example, if an appropriate proportion of bone particles are added to bone cement, the bone particles will be absorbed and the human bone tissue will slowly grow into the bone cement, thus achieving the purpose of self-fixation and preventing it from loosening easily. I believe that with the continuous development of science and technology, bone cement will be more favored by the medical community.

Related

Joints are the hub of human movement and may become "scrapped" due to trauma or disease. In this case, doctors often remove the "scrapped" joints and replace them with artificial joints. Human joints are living organs, and artificial joints are lifeless prostheses. How to replace death with life, make the fake become real, connect the two firmly, and keep them from loosening for a long time? Doctors wanted to invent a special material specifically for fixing artificial joints.

Research progress

After years of research, bone cement finally came out in the early 1960s. To facilitate storage and transportation, bone cement is composed of two parts: white powder and colorless liquid with a pungent odor. When used, just pour them together in a certain proportion and mix them, and a polymerization reaction will occur at room temperature. It starts out like mortar, then becomes like porridge, and then becomes like dough. It can be kneaded and squeezed into any shape, and finally gradually solidifies. The whole process takes only a dozen minutes. Before it hardens, the doctor places it at the site where the joint is to be replaced and then installs the artificial joint. When the reaction is finished, the local temperature rises slightly.

It feels a little hot to the touch. At this point, the bone cement, which is as strong as high-quality construction cement, successfully embeds the artificial joint into the human skeleton and fixes it firmly. After a short period of rehabilitation after surgery, the replaced joint can begin to function again. If it is an artificial hip replacement, you can then walk. This kind of fixation is quite reliable and can last for more than ten years or even more than twenty years.