Main description:

Dental Materials and Regenerative Medicine brings together current research and new concepts surrounding dental applications. Contributed by young researchers in collaboration and under guidance of experienced and seasoned academics, clinicians and researchers in dental materials and their use in clinical dentistry, this book not only covers fundamentals, but also opens new avenues for meeting future challenges in research and clinical applications.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Dental Materials 2. Oral Environment and Dental Tissues: Anatomy of the mouth and the oral environment, structure of teeth 3. Properties of Dental Materials in relation of Clinical applications 4. Characterisation of Dental Materials 5. Surface properties in dental materials 6. Dental Cements 7. Conventionally used restorative material: Cements, Ca(OH)2, silicates; Amalgam; Impression compo/waxes etc. 8. Glasses in Dentistry 9. Bioceramics in Dentistry 10. Polymers in Dentistry 11. Glass ionomers in Dentistry 12. Composites in Dentistry 13. Metals in Dentistry 14. Processing and fabrication of dental materials for tissue regeneration by using Supercritical carbon dioxide 15. Materials for periodontal regeneration 16. Tissue Engineering and Regenerative dentistry 17. Recent Advances in Dental Materials - a clinical perspective 18. Dental materials for cleft palate repair 19. Protein Based Dental Materials 20. Clinical perspective of Dental Scaffolds: What do Dental surgeons demand from Dental Materials? 21. Future of dental materials in dentistry