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Sergio Alexandre Gehrke, Berenice Anina Dedavid, Germán Odella Colla, Piedad N. De Aza and Leticia Pérez-Díaz
(1) Background: The present pilot in vitro study evaluated, physically and biologically, the effects produced by the wear of the titanium surface using different drill models. (2) Methods: Titanium disks were subjected to wear using four different burs a...
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Tudor Bibire, Onur Yilmaz, Cristina Mihaela Ghiciuc, Nela Bibire and Radu Danila
Biopolymers have gained significant attention as a class of polymer materials with a wide range of applications, especially in the medical and pharmaceutical field. Due to particular characteristics, such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, non-toxici...
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Dorina Lauritano, Giulia Moreo, Fedora Della Vella, Annalisa Palmieri, Francesco Carinci and Massimo Petruzzi
Background: It has been proven that the antihypertensive agent nifedipine can cause gingival overgrowth as a side effect. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of pharmacological treatment with nifedipine on human gingival fibroblasts activity...
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Michael Nemec, Hans Magnus Bartholomaeus, Christian Wehner, Christian Behm, Hassan Ali Shokoohi-Tabrizi, Xiaohui Rausch-Fan, Oleh Andrukhov and Erwin Jonke
Orthodontic clear aligner treatment is gaining tremendous popularity. The world market leader is Align Technology® and its product Invisalign®. Although numerous patients are treated with Invisalign® aligners, only little is known about the cellular effe...
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Malavika Nair, Serena M. Best and Ruth E. Cameron
Collagen-based constructs have emerged in recent years as ideal candidates for tissue engineering implants. For many biomedical applications, collagen is crosslinked in order to improve the strength, stiffness and stability of the construct. However, the...
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Mayra Eliana Valencia Zapata, José Herminsul Mina Hernandez, Carlos David Grande Tovar, Carlos Humberto Valencia Llano, Blanca Vázquez-Lasa, Julio San Román and Luis Rojo
Acrylic bone cement (ABC) is one of the most used materials in orthopedic surgery, mainly for the fixation of orthopedic implants to the bone. However, ABCs usually present lack of biological activity and osseointegration capacity that leads to loosening...
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Vuk Uskokovic
Despite decades of research into the interaction between cells and nanoparticles, there is a lack of consensus regarding how specific physicochemical characteristics of the nanoparticles, including chemical composition, crystallinity, size, morphology, c...
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Flaminia Chellini, Alessia Tani, Sandra Zecchi-Orlandini, Marco Giannelli and Chiara Sassoli
Although photobiomodulation (PBM) has proven promising to treat wounds, the lack of univocal guidelines and of a thorough understanding of light?tissue interactions hampers its mainstream adoption for wound healing promotion. This study compared murine a...
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