Evaluation of Long-Term Mechanical and Biological Biocompatibility of Low-Cost -Type Ti-Mn Alloys for Biomedical Applications 3
Ken Cho, Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Pedro Fernandes Santos, Alethea Morgane Liens, Masahiko Ikeda, and Tomokazu Hattori

Control of Ag Release from Ag-Containing Calcium Phosphates in Simulated Body Fluid 13
Ozkan Gokcekaya, Kyosuke Ueda, and Takayuki Narushima

Gallium-Containing Ferrites for Hyperthermia Treatment 21
J. Sánchez, Dora Alicia Cortés-Hernández, José C. Escobedo-Bocardo, Rosario A. Jasso-Terán, Pamela Y. Reyes-Rodríguez, and Gilberto F. Hurtado-López

Exploration of Amorphous and Crystalline Tri-Magnesium Phosphates for Bone Cements 33
Nicole Ostrowski, Vidisha Sharma, Abhijit Roy, and Prashant N. Kumta

Micro-X-Ray Diffraction Study of New Nickel-Titanium Rotary Endodontic Instruments 47
William A. Brantley, Masahiro Iijima, William A.T. Clark, Scott R. Schricker, John M. Nusstein, and Itaru Mizoguchi

Torsional Properties of Nanostructured Titanium Cortical Bone Screws 55
J.A.Disegi, B. Shultzabarger, and Michael Roach

Strengthening Behaviors of Low-Precious Ag-Pd-Au-Zn Alloys for Dental Applications 63
Mitsuo Niinomi, Masaaki Nakai, Junko Hieda, Ken-Cho, Yonghwan Kim, and Hisao Fukui

Effect of Immersion Medium on the Degradation and Conversion of Silicate (13-93) Bioactive Glass Scaffolds 73
Yifei Gu, Wenhai Huang, and Mohamed N. Rahaman

Evaluation of Long-Term Bone Regeneration in Rat Calvarial Defects Implanted with Strong Porous Bioactive Glass (13-93) Scaffolds 85
Mohamed N. Rahaman, Yinan Lin, Wei Xiao, X. Liu, and B. Sonny Bal

Magnesium Single Crystal as a Biodegradable Implant Material 97
Madhura Joshi, Pravahan Salunke, Guangqi Zhang, Vibhor Chaswal, Zhongyun Dong, and Vesselin Shanov

SURFACE PROPERTIES OF BIOMATERIALS

Damage Evaluation of TiO2 Nanotubes on Titanium 117
Anish Shivaram, Susmita Bose, and Amit Bandyopadhyay

Drug Delivery from Surface Modified Titanium Alloy for Load-Bearing Implants 129
Susmita Bose, Dishary Banerjee, Sam Robertson, Solaiman Tarafder, and Amit Bandyopadhyay

A Family of Novel Biostable Reticulated Elastomeric and Resilient Biointregative Crosslinked Polyurethane-Urea Scaffolds 137
Arindam Datta and Larry Lavelle

In Situ Nitridation of Titanium Using LENS™ 149
Himanshu Sahasrabudhe, Julie Soderlind, and Amit Bandyopadhyay

Magnesium Doped Hydroxyapatite: Synthesis, Characterization and Bioactivity Evaluation 161
Jaswinder Singh, Harpal Singh, and Uma Batra

Novel PLA- and PCL-HA Porous 3D Scaffolds Prepared by Robocasting Facilitate MC3T3-E1 Subclone 4 Cellular Attachment and Growth 175
V. G. Varanasi, J. Russias, E. Saiz, P. M. Loomer, and A. P. Tomsia

Dextran Coated Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles for Inhibiting Bone Cancer Cell Functions 187
Ece Alpaslan, Hilal Yazici, Negar Golshan, Katherine S. Ziemer, and Thomas J. Webster

Author Index 197