Brings the reader up-to-date on the developments in GBR over the past 20 years. The first four chapters focus on the basic science of GBR in implant dentistry. Helps the reader to understand the biologic and biomaterial background of this well-documented and well-established sur…
Bioactive Materials for Bone Regeneration
by Chang, Jiang, Zhang, Xingdong, Dai, Kerong
Various synthetic bone graft substitutes, demineralized bone matrix (DBM), bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), allogeneic bone cells, and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) currently are legally marketed bone graft substitutes; however, each of these products has a distinct regulator…
Xenotransplantation is defined as any procedure that involves the infusion or implantation into a human of nonhuman animal tissue. Current medical research is focusing on tissue substitutes for treatment of a wide variety of human diseases and complications. In orthopedic surger…
The field of medicine as a formal discipline has been traced by many to Imhotep and his descriptions of ailments and treatments found written on papyrus and translated in the mid-1800s by Edwin Smith. Among the medical descriptions included in Imhotep's writings are cervical dis…