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We aimed to synthesise pure and barium- or silicon-doped brushite-based CPCs loaded with piroxicam to study the effects of the substitution on physical-chemical and pharmaceutical properties before and after cement immersion in phosphate buffer for different time periods. Our results demonstrated that piroxicam became amorphous in the hardened cements. The dopants did not change the brushite structure or its lamellar morphology, while both Ba and Si additions improved the initial Young\u2019s modulus compared to the pure cement, and the opposite trend was observed for compressive strength. Both the compressive strength and the elastic modulus decreased for the samples immersed in solution compared to the non-immersed samples, with stabilisation as the number of days increased. 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