The medical device industry faces critical ongoing challenges in the search for new and better materials for advanced medical applications and to replace old materials that no longer stand the test of time. In Biomaterials Engineering and Devices: Human Applications, Volume 2: Orthopedic, Dental, Bone Graft Applications, authoritative international experts comprehensively review many current state-of-the-art uses of polymers, metals, and ceramics in the human body. A veritable encyclopedia of valuable data and experience, this important new reference work is devoted to dental biomaterials, bony biomaterials for grafting applications, and orthopedic fixtures and cements. The discussion includes treatment of emerging materials and of the regulatory and technical forces that will shape their development. The first volume, Biomaterials Engineering and Devices: Human Applications, Volume 1 discusses the design and evaluation of biomaterials for vascular applications and on biomaterials as carriers for bioactive agents.Extensively illustrated and richly referenced, Biomaterials Engineering and Devices: Human Applications, Volume 2: Orthopedic, Dental, and Bone Graft Applications integrates for today,s bioengineering professionals all the basic science, and engineering, as well as practical medical experience, needed to meet the ever-growing demand for new and better biomaterials.

1 Biomaterials for Dental Applications.- 1 Biomaterials Used in Implant Dentistry.- 2 Polymers in the Oral Environments: Novel Elastomers as Soft Liners.- 3 HA Coatings on Dental Implants.- 4 Characterization of Water Inhibition in Light-Cured Dental Resins.- 5 Osseointegrated Dental Implants: Follow-up Studies.- 2 Bony Biomaterials for Grafting Applications.- 6 Artificial Bone: Hydroxyapatite Reconstruction of Tibial Plateau Fractures.- 7 Enhancing Cortical Allograft Incorporation Processing by Partial Demineralization and Laser Perforation: A Histological, Biomechanical, and Immunological Study.- 8 Synthetic Osseous Grafting: A Necessary Component to Oral Reconstruction.- 9 HA-SAL2: Novel Bone Graft Substitute with Composition Mimicking Bone Mineral.- 10 Soluble Calcium Salts in Bioresorbable Bone Grafts.- 3 Orthopedic Fixtures and Cements.- 11 Surface Hardening of Orthopedic Implants.- 12 Orthopedic Applications of Carbon Fiber Composites.- 13 Development of a Bioresorbable Interbody Fusion Device.- 14 Follow-up-Study-Based Wear Debris Reduction with Ceramic-Metal-Modular Hip Replacements.- 15 Applied Aspects of Calcium Phosphate Bone Cement Application.- 16 Osteointegration and Dimensional Stability of Poly(D,L-Lactide-Co-Glycolide) Implants Reinforced with Poly(Propylene Glycol-Co-Fumaric Acid): Histomorphometric Evaluation of Metaphyseal Bone Remodeling in Rats.- 17 Particulate Metal in Late Aseptic Loosening of Cemented Total Hip Arthroplasties.- 18 Injectable and Bioresorbable Poly(Propylene Glycol-Co-Fumaric Acid) Bone Cement.- 19 Development of a Modular Ceramic Knee Prosthesis.