Scope

The Special Topic and Issue on Biomimicry, NanoBioTechnology, and Artificial Intelligence in Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery aim to cover the latest research, innovations, and future projections to promote awareness of the emerging field of Digital Medicine and Healthcare Technology. Due to the complex nature of such “outside-the-box” ideas, concepts, designs, strategies and technologies, this field has attracted experts from physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, pharmaceutics, robotics, and bioengineering as from industry. This exciting field aims to bridge the gap between medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, material sciences, and engineering (including sub-specialties, extending to the head and neck, orthopedics, and oncology, amongst others), addressing critical and urgent dental and medical health concerns, for ultimately improving general health and overall quality of life of patients and their families, as well as aid the health care providers in their duty. This Special Issue collection's editor seeks state-of-the-art, multi-and intra-disciplinary, basic, experimental, applied, clinical, and translational research for dental-oral-craniofacial tissue engineering, including risk assessment, diagnosis, restoration, replacement, reconstruction, regeneration, and repair. Herein, persistent improvements in the traditional approaches via the development and/or incorporation of advanced functional biomaterials, cell-/gene-/protein-/drug-delivery systems, new tools, and pharmacological/pharmaceutical formulations to improve overall dental-oral-cranio-maxillo-facial health and clinical practice, are pursued. The field is slowly-evolving yet expected to provide clinicians and patients with more precision and customized materials, drugs, and equipment, by which safety, aesthetics, function, and patient compliance (and quality of life/QoL) are advanced and enhanced. Papers can emphasize innovative or alternative design solutions with a focus on demonstrating physico chemico-mechanical/rheological, cellular, histomorphometrical, and immunohistochemical parameters, safety (cyto-/bio-compatibility), and efficacy (pre-clinical and clinical) characteristics of functional biomaterials for pharmaceutic delivery, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine. Translational and socio-economic/market studies are also encouraged and welcomed to provide the reader with relevant projections of the market. Clinicians, researchers, and industry experts are invited to contribute original research and policy articles and critical literature reviews, summarizing the most recent and exciting innovative developments in the emerging and developing field.

Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Plastic Surgery
• Digital Medicine
• Healthcare Technology
• Biomimicry
• NanoBio Technology
• Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
• Aesthetic Medicine
• Regenerative Surgery
• Quality of Life
• Biomaterials
• Drug Delivery

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