“…In the family of metals, porous titanium (Ti) has shown osteoinductivity, alone Takemoto et al, 2005), coated with a thin layer of calcium phosphate (Barrere et al, 2003) or in a construct with a calcium phosphate ceramic . In contrast to the limited number of reports on osteoinduction by polymers and metals, ceramicsparticularly calcium phosphate based ones -have shown osteoinductive potential in a variety of studies: HA (Ripamonti, 1991;Vargervik, 1992;Yamasaki and Sakai, 1992;van Eeden and Ripamonti, 1994;Pollick et al, 1995;Magan and Ripamonti, 1996;Ripamonti, 1996;Yuan et al, 1999;Ripamonti et al, 2009), β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) (Yuan et al, 2001a;Yuan et al, 2001e), biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP), that designates the mixture of HA and TCP (Yang et al, 1996;Gosain et al, 2002), dicalcium phosphate anhydrous (DCPA), dicalcium phosphate dihydrate (DCPD) (Habibovic et al, 2008a), carbonated apatite (Habibovic et al, 2008b), calcium pyrophosphates (CPP) (Vargervik, 1992;Toth et al, 1993) and HA/calcium carbonate (CC) mixtures (Pollick et al, 1995;Ripamonti et al, 2010). A case of osteoinductive glass ceramic has also been reported (Yuan et al, 2001b).…”