Clinical Applications of Biomaterials: State-of-the-Art Progress, Trends, and Novel Approaches

1. How Did Bioactive Glasses Revolutionize Medical Science? A Tribute to Larry Hench.- 2. Variation in Properties of Bioactive Glasses After Surface Modification.- 3. Apatites for Orthopaedic Applications.- 4. Calcium Phosphate Cements for Medical Applications.- 5. Calcium Orthophosphate-Based Bioceramics and its Clinical Applications.- 6. Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates for Drug, Gene, DNA, and Protein Delivery and as Anticancer Chemotherapeutic Devices.- 7. Synthesis and Functionalization of Mesoporous Bioactive Glasses for Drug Delivery.- 8. Bioactive Glass/Polymer Composites for Drug Delivery.- 9. Restorative Dental Glass-ceramics: Current Status and Trends.- 10. Bioactive Glass Based Composites for Cranioplasty Implants.- 11. Antibacterial Properties of Bioactive Glasses.- 12. Development of URIST(TM) a Multiphasic rhBMP-2 Bone Graft Substitute.- 13. Development and in Vitro Analysis of a New Biodegradable PLA/HAp Composite for Biomedical Applications.- 14. Biomaterials for Cell Encapsulation: Progress towards Clinical Applications.