Table 1.

Ca-to-Mg-ratio on cement and adherend of the different bone adhesive samples. Concentrations of Ca and Mg were calculated based on corresponding EDS element maps. The ratios of one row derive each from the same (border) EDS element map (Figure 4).

		Ca-to-Mg-Ratio (wt.%/wt.%)
Phytic Acid (%)	Time	Cement Residues	Adherend
0	initial	0.23 ± 0.02	3.0 ± 0.2
	24 h	0.31 ± 0.03	2.7 ± 0.2
	7 d	1.6 ± 0.1*	5.6 ± 0.5
20.0	initial	0.08 ± 0.01	4.9 ± 0.5
	24 h	0.20 ± 0.02	4.7 ± 0.2
	7 d	0.42 ± 0.05	8.8 ± 0.7
22.5	initial	0 ± 0	6.2 ± 0.5
	24 h	0.17 ± 0.02	8.8 ± 0.9
	7 d	0.51 ± 0.04	8.3 ± 0.6
25.0	initial	0.01 ± 0.01	7.3 ± 0.8
	24 h	0.11 ± 0.01	3.9 ± 0.3
	7 d	0.26 ± 0.02	9.9 ± 0.8

* barely complete cement residues visible.