Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Chewing gum type
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-25
2001-07-03
Page, Thurman K. (Department: 1615)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Chewing gum type
C424S049000, C424S063000, C424S400000, C424S435000, C424S489000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06254855
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is concerned with a hydroxylapatite composition having a homogeneous concentration within the range of from 7% to 96%. The present invention also relates to a method for preparing the hydroxylapatite compositions and products containing the hydroxylapatite compositions and its use in specific applications.
Hydroxylapatite (HAP) may be used in medicine as a denture material, prophylactic additive in tooth pastes and medicinal solutions, chewing gums, sorbents for medicinal preparations and various organic and inorganic compounds, in materials for stomatology and bone surgery and as a filler or sorbent agent for gas-liquid chromatography.
STATE OF THE ART
Due to the fields of application of hydroxylapatite the availability of pure HAP, free from other calcium phosphates has become the main requirement. Furthermore, it became highly desirable to prepare HAP not only in powder form but as a suspension or paste of a predetermined composition.
A known method for producing hydroxylapatite is based on the mixing of a suspension of calcium hydroxyde with an aqueous solution of phosphoric acid, wherein either the reaction product of both components or the mixture is treated by a grinding operation that ensures a mechano-chemical activation of the reagents. According to this method as a grinding apparatus there may be used mills and crushers of various types and as a grinding medium glass beads, aluminium balls and the like. According to this method hydroxylapatite having large crystals is mainly produced.
This method does not allow to produce fairly pure hydroxylapatite and moreover the preparation of suspensions and pastes from hydroxylapatite having large crystals is practically impossible (Patent of Japan No. 62-43524, 1987).
Furthermore, a method for producing hydroxylapatite is known from the Russion Federation patent application no.
93012609/26, filed on Mar. 9, 1993 which is forming the technical background of the present invention. According to this method a suspension of calcium hydroxide is reacted with phosphoric acid in a closed multiple circuit whereby the suspension of calcium hydroxide is past through two zones. In the first zone a continuous supply of phosphoric acid in the amount necessary to reach pH=10-11 is provided. The suspension flow rate in the first zone is 0.8 m/s to 1.5 m/s and the residence time is 1.0 s to 1.5 s. In the second zone the obtained mixture is diluted by 400 to 500 times with a suspension of calcium hydroxide. The diluted mixture is returned to the first zone and the process is repeated thereby ensuring a 4 to 5 fold circulation of the complete volume of the mixture during 10 to 20 min. After the feeding of acid is terminated the obtained suspension of the product is stirred for additionally 10 to 12 min. The resulting suspension of hydroxylapatite has a concentration of 4.5% to 5.0%. Additionally, the suspension may be dried to produce solid hydroxylapatite or dehydrated by centrifugation to produce a suspension of hydroxylapatite having a concentration of 18% to 33%.
This method ensures the production of a pure product with a desired composition and the yield is 99.5% to 99.8% of the theoretical one and increases the technological adaptability of the process.
A disadvantage of this known method, however, is that a suspension with homogeneous concentration can not be obtained.
The preparation of highly concentrated suspensions of more than 18% is time-consuming, requires large volumes of apparatus and the production of a suspension with a concentration higher than 33% is practically impossible.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is based on the problem to produce a suspension of hydroxylapatite with any necessary concentration, i.e. either less than 18% or more than 33% and as well pastes of hydroxylapatite having a homogeneous concentration composition.
According to the present invention a hydroxylapatite (HAP) composition is provided, wherein the dimensions of the hydroxylapatite particles is 0.01 &mgr;m to 0.02 &mgr;m in width and 0.05 &mgr;m to 0.1 &mgr;m length, the composition having a homogeneous concentration within the range of from 7% to 96%.
Preferred concentration ranges are given in subclaims
2
to
6
. The composition may be in the form of a suspension or paste.
The hydroxylapatite (HAP) compositions of this invention are starting from a suspension of hydroxylapatite with a concentration of 4.5% to 5.0% which may be obtained preferably according to the method of the patent of the Russian Federation mentioned above. According to the invention, such a suspension is subjected to alternating stirring and filtration ranges with the stirring being carried out at a rate of 0.8 m/s to 3.0 m/s for 5 to 25 minutes and each stage is providing increasing homogeneous concentrations of hydroxylapatite due to increased stirring rates and/or times. Thus, suspensions with concentrations of 7% to 20% in a first step, 21% to 34% in a second step, 35% to 45% in a third step, 46% to 62% in a fourth step, 63% to 75% in a fifth step can be obtained. The yield of the final product is made from any step, as far as the necessary concentration is reached.
The method is based on the mechano-structural thixotropic properties of a dispersed system of hydroxylapatite which method consists in effecting reversible sol-gel transitions usually occuring upon mechanical stress by compulsory means.
It is noteworthy that the change of the structural mechanical, i.e. the thixotropic properties of disperse systems depend on the size and form of the particles forming this system. In rough disperse systems (particle sizes of 1 &mgr;m and more) the number of coagulation contacts is not sufficient to produce a sol and to effect the sol-gel transitions by means of mechanical stress. Therefore, the mechanical treatment of suspensions with particle sizes of 1 &mgr;m and more practically does not result in the change of its rheological properties.
The dimensions of the particles used in the synthesis of hydroxylapatite HAP are 0.01 &mgr;m to 0.02 &mgr;m in width and 0.05 &mgr;m to 0.1 &mgr;m in length permitting to utilize the thixotropic properties of the produced HAP suspension and to develope a method to specifically concentrate such suspensions. The mentioned dimensions and shapes of particles of the initial hydroxylapatite favour the formation of coagulation structures due to cohesion of the particles by Van der Waals forces interacting with links, chains, spatial nets, frameworks of the primary particles, their chains and aggregates. The centers of the point contacts appear at the ends of particles. Therefore, an anisometric, especially bar-like shape of the particles is favourable to from such structures. The afore-mentioned ratio between width and length of the particles of the initial HAP satisfies this requirement. Such systems are able to undergo reversible sol-gel transitions, i.e. to repeatedly form and destroy their structure.
Thus, it was found that during a stirring of the suspension having a concentration of 4.0% to 5.0% depending on the intensity and duration of stirring a partial or complete distruction of its structure occurs along with the transition of the sole into a gel. A subsequent filtration of the hydrogel results in a partial separation of the solvent (water) thereby concentrating the disperse system up to 7% to 20% and in the transition of the gel into a sol which has a spatial structure and stability formed at the expense of cohesion and aggregation of particles of the disperse phase, preventing its further filtration and concentration.
During further stirring the formed stable spatial structure depending on the intensity and duration of stirring is again partially or completely destroyed with the formation of a gel. The subsequent filtration of the hydrogel results in a partial and controlled separation of water, in concentrating the disperse system up to a concentration of 21% to 34% and the transition of the gel into a spatially structured and stable sol that practically preven
Bozhevolnov Viktor Evgenievich
Komarov Vladimir Fedorovich
Melikhov Igor Vitallevich
Minaev Vladimir Vasillevich
Orlov Andrei Yurlevich
Aktsionernoe Obschestvo Zakrytogo Tipa “Ostim”
Page Thurman K.
Tran S.
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