Diseases or complications that are caused by bone tissue damage affect millions of patients
every year. Orthopedic and dental implants have become important treatment options for …

Animal studies and the scarce clinical trials available that have been conducted suggest that
bioactive surfaces on dental implants could improve the osseointegration of such implants …

It is widely recognized that surface nanotextures applied on a biomaterial can affect
wettability, protein absorption and cellular and/or bacterial adhesion; accordingly, they are …

Bioactive glasses, discovered by Hench and co-workers at the end of the 1960s, are among
the most promising biomaterials for bone repair and reconstruction, mainly thanks to their …

Bioactive coatings have the potential to improve the bony integration of mechanically loaded
orthopedic ceramic implants. Using the concept of mimicking the natural bone surface, four …

Background: Current trends in clinical dental implant therapy include modification of titanium
surfaces for the purpose of improving osseointegration by different additive (bioactive …

Two alternative approaches, enamelling and plasma spraying, were tested to deposit
coatings made with two different bioactive glasses: the established Bioglass® 45S5, which …

The innovative suspension plasma spraying (SPS) technique was applied to produce a
bioactive glass/hydroxyapatite (HA) multi-layered functionally graded coating (FGC). The …

Several inorganic materials such as bioactive glasses, glass–ceramics and calcium
phosphates have been shown to be bioactive and resorbable which make them suitable for …

Our expanding ability to handle the “literally invisible” building blocks of our world has
started to provoke a seismic shift on the technology, environment and health sectorsin our …