Implant and Graft Interactions with Hard and Soft Tissues (Volume 2)

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue follows the publication of the first edition on “Implant and Graft Interactions with Hard and Soft Tissues”, which presented 10 interesting papers.

The interaction between implanted materials and the bone/soft tissue complex is the new frontier of implant dentistry. This observation arises from the increased number of critical patients in whom the traditional protocols and materials might result in partial success, if not failure. Traditional dental implant approaches and materials have been demonstrated to have an impressively high success rate in healthy patients. However, the aging of the global population and the consequent increase in requests for these procedures, even in older and systemically compromised patients, expose clinicians to failures.

A complete knowledge of the biomolecular exchanges and biophysics behind implant insertion and bone regeneration procedures could help industries to develop more advanced surgical tools and materials. From a practical standpoint, this might support the clinicians in improving the quality of their procedures, making every surgical and prosthetic step more predictable, even in critical cases.

The aim of this Special Issue is to investigate the biological background of implant and graft material interactions with bone through molecular science.

Dr. Luigi Canullo
Prof. Dr. Eriberto Bressan
Dr. Giulia Brunello
Guest Editors

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