Innovative Prosthetic Devices Applied to the Human Body

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, innovative advances in the field of prosthetic devices applied to medical sciences have been explored and then developed. Thus, there is a call for researchers and clinicians to keep up with all of the progress that is occurring in the field.

New materials as well as digital technologies are available to enhance the effectiveness of the diagnostic process and increase the spectrum of treatments available, as well as increase the number of human body prosthetic applications.

Therefore, new tools such as scanners, digital models, cone-beam computerized tomography, photogrammetry, and artificial intelligence (AI) have gradually spread, improving the possibility of carrying out successful diagnoses and research about prosthesis and rehabilitation.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest research, technologies, and innovations in the field of prosthesis and rehabilitation, and to explore the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Moreover, the objective is to provide evidence-based data on innovative advances and knowledge for diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. Studies that take innovative approaches or provide original information are of higher priority.

This Special Issue’s topic will merge the applications of prosthetic devices, including the integration of sensors, machine learning algorithms, and neural interfaces, to improve the accuracy, speed, and adaptability of each prosthesis that can be applied to the human body. The fields of medicine, biomedicine, bioengineering, and materials sciences are the main areas of this Special Issue, and topics related to cardiac prosthesis, ocular prosthesis, dental prosthesis, and orthopedic prosthesis are also welcome.

In this regard, we are delighted to invite investigators to submit original research articles (trials, cohort studies, and case-control and cross-sectional studies), high-quality case reports, communications, and reviews (narrative or systematic reviews and meta-analyses) in accordance with the fields previously indicated.

Prof. Dr. Marco Cicciu
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Cervino
Guest Editors

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