New Materials and Technologies for Guided Tissue Regeneration

Dear Colleagues,

Guided tissue regeneration is a successful procedure employed to increase and/or to create soft and hard tissues for oral and craniomaxillofacial surgery. At present, this biological principle has been improved by the development of several new materials and technologies to reduce the time and increase the efficiency of the regenerative procedure. In addition, local delivery of molecules as growth factors and stem cells combined with new designed and produced scaffolds had expanded the regenerative area, including not only target cells as osteoblasts, but also cells from the periodontal ligament.

This Special Issue aims to explore and share new emerging concepts and technologies in Biomaterials produced by additive manufacturing and other conventional methods applied in several areas.

This Special Issue includes but is not limited to:

• Additive manufacturing of bioceramic and polymers;
• New concepts of surgical and clinical procedures for bone and soft tissue regeneration;
• Long-term follow up studies of different materials used for tissue regeneration;
• Local and systemic host conditions that influence guided tissue regeneration;
• Complications during healing of surgical regenerative procedures;
• Characterization of new developments in both materials and procedures;
• Growth factors and blood aggregates for guided tissue regeneration;
• New developments of materials applied for craniomaxillofacial and periodontal reconstruction;
• New synthetic nanocomposites and nanotubules of carbon;
• New materials with nanoscale coating;
• Scaffolds for periodontal and peri-implant tissue regeneration.

Prof. Jamil Awad Shibli
Guest Editor

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