TY - CHAP AU - José Alejandro Guerrero AU - Juan Carlos Vanegas AU - Diego Alexander Garzón AU - Martín Casale AU - Higinio Arzate ED - Rosario Pignatello Y1 - 2011-09-15 PY - 2011 T1 - Mechanobiology of Oral Implantable Devices N2 - These contribution books collect reviews and original articles from eminent experts working in the interdisciplinary arena of biomaterial development and use. From their direct and recent experience, the readers can achieve a wide vision on the new and ongoing potentials of different synthetic and engineered biomaterials. Contributions were not selected based on a direct market or clinical interest, than on results coming from very fundamental studies which have been mainly gathered for this book. This fact will also allow to gain a more general view of what and how the various biomaterials can do and work for, along with the methodologies necessary to design, develop and characterize them, without the restrictions necessarily imposed by industrial or profit concerns. The book collects 22 chapters related to recent researches on new materials, particularly dealing with their potential and different applications in biomedicine and clinics: from tissue engineering to polymeric scaffolds, from bone mimetic products to prostheses, up to strategies to manage their interaction with living cells. BT - Biomaterials Science and Engineering SP - Ch. 15 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/23611 DO - 10.5772/23611 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -