Abstract: The invention concerns a method for controlling coalescence of particles forming a structure subjected to a treatment designed to establish crosslinking between said particles. The method consists in recording at least a physical quantity, whereof the evolution is continuously measurable and whereto the particle crosslinking is correlated, and in stopping the treatment when said physical quantity reaches a value corresponding the desired coalescence. The invention is characterized in that it consists in measuring as said physical quantity the shrinking of said structure. The invention also concerns a method and a device for making a structure of mutually crosslinked particles using said control method and a method for obtaining a product with interconnected pores, in particular for bone substitution, using such a structure.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing macro-porous synthetic ceramics designed in particular for bone substitution. The invention also concerns macro-porous synthetic ceramics comprising pores of controlled dimensions, distributed in number and in surface in a predetermined manner, the interconnection between the pores thereof being controlled.