Bioactive Glass Beads Type 1756b Tested for Use in Long-Term Passive Drug Delivery

Bioactive glass beads have been used to distribute medicine over extended periods of time in limited uses. They can be engineered to have a porous and hollow structure, and using Mo-Sci's OL-GL 1756b (1756b), the fundamental notion of dosage distribution can be tested in preparation to design the optimal glass for medicine distribution. A few key factors in this is how long does it take the liquid to release from the beads, how do the beads decay, and how well the glass can bond to human tissue. Absorbency tests were ran to demonstrate the passive diffusion rate of the 1756bs. To examine the structure, SEM was employed as well as microscopy while the beads held dye as well when they did not.