Adhesives used to fix prosthetic devices to bones and to cement bone to bone in difficult fractures. Synthetic resins are commonly used as cements. A mixture of monocalcium phosphate, monohydrate, alpha-tricalcium phosphate, and calcium carbonate with a sodium phosphate solution is also a useful bone paste.

Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cement (luting agent) is a device intended to be implanted that is made from methylmethacrylate, polymethylmethacrylate, esters of methacrylic acid or copolymers containing polymethylmethyacrylate and polystyrene. The device is intended for use in arthroplastic procedures of the hip, knee, and other joints for the fixation of polymer or metallic prosthetic implants to the living bone.