Bio-glasses : an introduction /

• Other Authors: Jones, Julian R., Clare, Alexis
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2012.
• Subjects: Biomedical materials.; Glass.; Biocompatible Materials.; Drug Delivery Systems.; Regeneration.; Tissue Scaffolds.; MEDICAL > Allied Health Services > Medical Technology.; MEDICAL > Biotechnology.; MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.; MEDICAL > Lasers in Medicine.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Biomedical.; Electronic books.

This new work is dedicated to glasses and their variants which can be used as biomaterials to repair diseased and damaged tissues. Bio-glasses are superior to other biomaterials in many applications, such as healing bone by signaling stem cells to become bone cells.