Dental Materials and Regenerative Medicine

Table of 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

Authors

Rehman, Ihtesham ur Ihtesham ur Rehman has more than 28 years of experience working on dental and biomaterials, having spent more than 23 years at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Biomedical Materials at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). He is currently working at the Kroto Research Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sheffield (TUoS), UK. He developed and managed MSc(s) in 1- Dental Materials and 2- Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine both the QMUL and TUoS. His research is on dental and biomaterials, and of translational nature; ranging from (i) chemical structural evaluations of cells and proteins by spectroscopic means, to (ii) synthesis and fabrication of bioactive composites for dental and osteological applications. He has authored over 200 scientific articles, one book and several patents.