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The use of certain materials as constituents of surgical implants is not new. Substitutions of bone parts for repairing seriously damaged portions of the human body have been reported since the pre-Christian era. Either bronze or copper were then chiefly utilized, probably in circumstances requiring the assembly of fractured bone parts. In these cases the chances of successful results were good provided that the poisoning effect caused by an excess of Cu2+ ions circulating in the body was overcome once the copper piece had completely dissolved and the fractures were sutured.
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Ravaglioli, A., Krajewski, A. (1992). A historical and philosophical outline and prospects for the application of biomaterials. In: Bioceramics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2336-5_1
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