Implanted biomaterials play a key role in the current success of orthopedic and dental
procedures. Pure titanium and its alloys are the most commonly used materials for …

Osteomyelitis is a devastating disease caused by microbial infection of bone. While the
frequency of infection following elective orthopedic surgery is low, rates of reinfection are …

Surface modification of orthopedic and dental implants has been demonstrated to be an
effective strategy to accelerate bone healing at early implantation times. Among the different …

Hydroxyapatite (HAP) has been considered to be one of the most preferred scaffold
materials among many in the last decade for the bone tissue engineering. Be it prosthetic …

The two leading causes of failure for joint arthroplasty prostheses are aseptic loosening and
periprosthetic joint infection. With the number of primary and revision joint replacement …

Additive Manufacturing (AM) or rapid prototyping technologies are presented as one of the
best options to produce customized prostheses and implants with high-level requirements in …

In biomaterials science, it is nowadays well accepted that improving the biointegration of
dental and orthopedic implants with surrounding tissues is a major goal. However, implant …

Joint replacement is a major orthopaedic procedure used to treat joint osteoarthritis. Aseptic
loosening and infection are the two most significant causes of prosthetic implant failure. The …

Hydroxyapatite (HAp) is still one of the most widely used bioactive coating material to
metallic implant in orthopedic fields because of its good biocompatibility, chemical and …

Since various interactions among cells, surrounding tissues and implanted biomaterials
always occur at their interfaces, the surface properties of potential implants appear to be of …