Enhanced understanding of the signals within the microenvironment that regulate cell fate has led to the development of increasingly sophisticated polymeric biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. This advancement is exemplified by biomaterials with precisely controlled scaffold architecture that regulate the spatio-temporal release of growth factors and morp...

1. Discusses the properties of enamel and dentin and their role in adhesive dental restoration;2. Chapters also examine the wear properties of dental ceramics, glasses and bioactive glass ceramics for tooth repair and replacement;3. Dental composites and antibacterial restorative materials are also considered;4. Provides a concise overview of non-metallic biomaterials for dental clinicians, mat...

I just returned from a conference at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) titled "Biomaterials and Medical Implant Science." This meeting's recommendations will undoubtedly influence much of what we do, or plan to do, ill biomaterials and biomechanics research in the rest of this decade and into the next century. Accordingly, the JOMI readership should be most interested in the meeting's res...

Female stress urinary incontinence, while not life threatening, can present with various social and economic implications. Biomaterials, primarily synthetic, are often utilized to augment surgical correction. Repair with biomaterials involves midurethral support to function against weakened connective tissue caused by injury, abnormal collagen metabolism, or genetic predisposition. Even though ...

During the past few years, the biocompatibility of biomaterials (non-vital material intended to interact with biological systems within or on the human body) has evolved into a comprehensive, complex, and independent discipline of biomaterials science. Consequently, a number of terms have been developed or were adopted from toxicology. Some of these terms may be familiar to patients and clinici...

Tribological research is the study of lubrication, friction, and wear. Tribology of biomaterials is to study how the materials work and fail. This will help us to produce better biomaterials. Tribology plays a very important role in improving the design and making successful biomaterials for medical purposes. Joints of human body, such as hip, knee, jaw, dental parts etc., all need to consider ...

Procedures for the treatment of retinal detachment and related conditions have been successfully improved upon in recent years thanks to the advent of new therapies and biomaterials. This review, after giving an overview on eye structure and function, focuses on the treatment of retinal detachment and examines the role and features of the materials used in vitreoretinal surgery, emphasizing scl...

Due to the increasing demand to generate thick and vascularized tissue engineered constructs, novel strategies are currently being developed. An emerging example is the generation of oxygen-releasing biomaterials to tackle mass transport and diffusion limitations within engineered tissue-like constructs. Biomaterials containing oxygen releasing molecules can be fabricated in various forms such ...

Jun Ma, Insup Noh, In-Seop Lee* and Shengmin Zhang* Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Convergence Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 139-743 Korea and Institute of Natural Science...

Nematic liquid crystals are textured, anisotropic, viscoelastic materials. The remarkable rheological properties of viscoelastic materials are governed by the flow-induced evolution of molecular configuration. Analogues to liquid crystal flow processes occur in the supramolecular selfassembly processes of living biological tissues. A good understanding of the relationships between rheological p...