Dental Implants
Materials, Coatings, Surface Modifications and Interfaces with Oral Tissues

A useful guide to all aspects of dental implant materials and implant-tissue interfaces

Muhammad Zafar (Author), Zohaib Khurshid (Author)

9780128195864

Paperback, published 23 July 2020

324 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.53 kg

Approx.310 pages

1. Introduction to Dental Implants (Past, Present and Future)2. Titanium, Zirconia and Polyethyletherketone (PEEK) as a Dental Implant Material3. Design and Fabrication of the Dental Implants 4. Surface Modification Techniques5. Hydroxyapatite and Nanocomposite Coatings6. Bioactive Glass Based Coatings7. Proteins and Peptides Coatings on Dental Implant Surfaces 8. Therapeutic agents and Growth Factors coating on Dental Implant 9. Silica-based antibacterial coatings for Dental Implants10. Drugs Eluting Dental Implants 11. Hard and Soft Tissues Interface with Dental Implants12. Tissue Regeneration aspects and dental implants13. Challenges and future trends

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Biotechnology [TCB], Biomedical engineering [MQW]