Researchers from Sweden have developed a new adhesive that could revolutionize the bone healing process. This new adhesive will allow fractures to repair securely within a very short amount of time. For long, scientists have struggled to find a suitable adhesive that would repair fractures and not be bio-toxic. Further, adhesives tested so far failed to work in the predominately wet internal environment of the human body.
This adhesive was carefully produced from a novel chemical constituent influenced from dental resins. The adhesive strength of this compound was tested on wet bone substrates and also using the fiber‐reinforced adhesive patch (FRAP) method. This thiol-ene adhesive had a sheer bond strength of 9.0 MPa which was 55% better than acrylate dental adhesives that are commercially available. The adhesives have been tested in vivo and the results have been published in the…
