Progress in Bioceramics is to survey the present situation in this field, and to cover as fully as possible the various lines of research.

Progress in Bioceramics includes many ceramic materials having clinical applications; some of them already entirely feasible, while others are expected to be available in the very near future.

Contents

1. Bioceramics: Where Do We Come From and Which are the Future Expectations
2. Upgrading Calcium Phosphate Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications
3. Calcium Phosphate Glass: Potential as Biomaterial for Hard-Tissue Repair
4. Clinical Use of Bioactive Glasses for Maxillo-Facial Repair
5. Magnesium- and Zinc-Substituted Beta-Tricalcium Phosphates as Potential Bone Substitute Biomaterials
6. Calcium Phosphates / Biphosphonates Combinations...Towards a Therapeutic Synergy
7. Ensuring Implant Fixation and Sol-Gel Derived Ceramic Coatings
8. Silica-Based Ordered Mesoporous Materials for Biomedical Applications
9. A Genetic Basis for Design of Biomaterials in In Situ Tissue Regeneration
10. Cell Proliferation and Tissue Compatibility of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials
11. Syntesis of Mesoporous Microparticles for Biomedical Applications
12. Rationale of Using Conventional Sol-Gel Derived SiO₂ for Delivery of Biologically Active Agents
13. A Combined Experimental-Computational Strategy for the Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Bioactive Zinc-Silicate Glasses
14. Simulation of Bone Remodelling and Bone Ingrowth within Scaffolds

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