
Fundamental Biomaterials: Ceramics
Description
Key Features
- Provides current information on findings and developments of ceramics and their conversion from base materials to medical devices
- Includes analyses of the types of ceramics and a discussion of a range of biomedical applications and essential properties, including information on corrosion, degradation and wear, and lifetime prediction of ceramic biomaterials
- Explores both theoretical and practical aspects of ceramics in biomaterials
Readership
Materials scientists, biomedical engineers
Table of Contents
1. Ceramic Biomaterials: An Introductory overview
2. Development of a Ceramic-Controlled Piezoelectric of Single Disc for Biomedical Applications
3. Ceramics as biomaterials for dental restoration
4. Ceramic biomaterials for tissue engineering
5. Inert ceramics
6. Bioactive glass ceramics
7. Bioceramics as drug delivery system
8. Bioceramics in orthopaedics
9. Mesoporous Ceramics as Drug Delivery Systems
10. Corrosion of Ceramic Materials
11. Nanostructural Bioceramics and applications
12. Bioactive Glass-Ceramic Scaffolds with High-Strength for Orthopedic Applications
13. Synthesis, Microstructure and Properties of High-Strength Porous Ceramics
14. Characterization and stability of bioactive ceramic composite material and bonding to bone
15. Optical behavior of current ceramic systems
16. Long-term clinical success of all-ceramic posterior restorations
17. Reducing the failure potential of ceramic-based restorations: Ceramic inlays, crowns, veneers, and bridges
18. Recent developments in restorative dental ceramics
19. Degradative effects of the biological environment on ceramics
20. Toxicity of Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications
Product details
- No. of pages: 498
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2018
- Published: February 16, 2018
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081022030
- eBook ISBN: 9780081022047
About the Editors
Sabu Thomas
Affiliations and Expertise
Preetha Balakrishnan
Affiliations and Expertise
M.S. Sreekala
Affiliations and Expertise
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