Bioactive ceramics are also used as coatings on metallic implants.
Ceramic biological uses.
Other examples of medical uses for bioceramics are in pacemakers kidney dialysis machines and respirators.
Ceramics are now commonly used in the medical fields as dental and bone implants.
While we use conducting metals like copper to carry electricity from place to place we have to use ceramics to insulate high voltage electricity in places like power plant generators and transformers.
Surgical cermets are used regularly.
The modern ceramic materials which are classified as advanced ceramics include silicon carbide and tungsten carbide.
Joint replacements are commonly coated with bioceramic materials to reduce wear and inflammatory response.
Traditional ceramic raw materials include clay minerals such as kaolinite whereas more recent materials include aluminium oxide more commonly known as alumina.