Innovation in dental biomaterials for bone regeneration therapy
Bone regeneration therapy for implant treatment is challenging in some cases and development of various materials to effectively promote bone regeneration has been going on. Bone substitute composed of carbonate apatite and biodegradabe synthetic polymer bilayer membrane are the examples of recently commercialized materials. In this presentation, the characteristics and clinical usefulness of these new biomaterials will be summarized as well as providing short history of development of bone substitute/GBR membrane. Additionally, our research on fabrication of cell constructs which possess osteogenic differentiation ability will be introduced to address the future perspective of dental biomaterials for bone regeneration.

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