A composition, suitable for surgical or dental use, which can expand and/or contract in at least one direction without similar expansion or contraction in another direction, comprises an inner and an outer portion, the portions differing in their expansion properties and/or the extent to which they are prestressed.

 
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> Tetracalcium phosphate (TTCP) with surface whiskers and method of making same

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