T. K. Greenlee is a coauthor of the 1971 study of bonding between a glass-ceramic biomaterial and bone. The publisher’s byline lists Greenlee at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.[ref]
Bonding mechanisms at the interface of ceramic prosthetic materials by L. L. Hench and others. Author affiliations and primary abstract
The study connected an interfacial chemical model with observations in biological tissue. Laboratory studies of material solubility and hydroxyapatite crystallization were compared with histology and ultrastructure around implants in rat femurs. This comparison addresses a concrete problem: a material can have suitable bulk mechanical properties while developing an unsuitable interface with living bone. Microscopic observations of that interface help test a proposed bonding mechanism instead of inferring it from bulk strength alone.[ref]
Bonding mechanisms at the interface of ceramic prosthetic materials by L. L. Hench and others. Abstract, comparison of in-vitro studies with in-vivo rat-femur implant observations
In his historical account, Larry L. Hench identifies Greenlee as an orthopaedic surgeon involved in the early work.[ref]
The Story of Bioglass by Larry Hench. Printed pp. 10–11: T. K. Greenlee, Jr. and the original collaborators
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