Main description:

Bone Response to Dental Implant Materials examines the oral environment and the challenges associated with dental biomaterials. Understanding different in vivo and in vitro responses is essential for engineers to successfully design and tailor implant materials which will withstand the different challenges of this unique environment. This comprehensive book reviews the fundamentals of bone responses in a variety of implant materials and presents strategies to tailor and control them.

Contents:

1. Introduction to bone response to dental implant materials

2. Mechanical modification of dental implants to control bone retention

3. Surface modification of dental biomaterials for controlling bone response

4. Bone response to calcium phosphate coatings for dental implants

5. Peri-implant biological behavior: clinical and scientific aspects

6. Implant primary stability and occlusion

7. Clinical bone response to dental implant materials

8. The effect of loading on peri-implant bone: A critical review of the literature

9. Bone response to decontamination treatments for dental biomaterials

10. Anti-resorptive treatment in osteoporosis and their deleterious effects on maxillary bone metabolism in clinical dentistry

11. Biocompatibility and cellular response to dental implant materials

12. Analysis of bone response to dental bone grafts by advanced physical techniques

13. Acoustic emission and ultrasound for monitoring the bone-implant interface

14. A new approach for modeling bone response to dental implant materials