“…Extraneous additives, such as EDTA [351], surfactants [352,359], anionic starburst dendrimer [353] etc., might be utilized to modify the morphology of nanodimensional and/or nanocrystalline apatites during the synthesis. Most of these techniques produced rod-like crystals or whiskers, while plate-like shapes were obtained in just a few studies [335,345,347]. Other preparation methods of nanodimensional and/or nanocrystalline apatites of various states, shapes and sizes include sol-gel [30,188,231,232,270,328,[360][361][362][363][364][365][366][367][368][369][370][371][372][373][374][375][376], co-precipitation [271,333,334,[377][378][379][380], mechanochemical approach[65, 250,343,348,[381][382][383][384][385]…”