Kazakh scientists develop biomaterial for bone restoration

Kazakh scientists developed a biomaterial for bone restoration. The peculiarity of the domestic development is that hydroxyapatite is produced from ordinary eggshells. According to the developers, the bone replacement mineral is identical in its properties to human bone tissue and tooth enamel. At the same time, it is three times cheaper than foreign analogues.

“One gram of hydroxyapatite costs 10,000 tenge (US$23). Previously, dentists imported it from Germany, China, where it costs 30,000 tenge (US$69). Ours is cheaper,” explained Zulkhair Mansurov, CEO of the Institute of Combustion Problems.

“Hydroxyapatite is a mineral that can be applied in many areas. For example, it is widely used in traumatology to restore bone tissue and in dentistry to restore the surface of teeth with nanoparticles. And now science has advanced, so that we can just repair the enamel and thus restore it without surgery,” added Maksut Temirbayev, CEO of a dental center

The Science Fund of Kazakhstan supported the project, allocating almost 160 million tenge (US$372,884) for the technology to produce the substance.

Translation by Saniya Sakenova

Editing by Saule Mukhamejanova