Biomedical materials /   
Roger Narayan. 
 - Chapel Hill :   Springer,   2009. 
 - xxiii, 566 p.  :   il. ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Part I: The fundamental properties of the materials used in medicine and dentistry. 1- Ceramics and glasses. 2- Metallic biomaterials. 3- Polymeric biomaterials. Part II: The interaction between materials and living tissues. 4- Biomechanics. 5- Metal corrosion. 6- Wear. 7- Inflammation, carcinogenicity and hypersensitivity. 8- Protein interactions at material surfaces. 9- Sterility and infection. 10- Biocompability testing. Part III: Applications of polymers, metals, and ceramics in medicine. 11- Biometerials for dental applications.. 12- Ophthalmic biomaterials.13- Hip prothesis. 14- Burn dressing biomaterials and tissue engineering. 15- Natural and synthetic polymeric scaffolds. 16- BioMEMS. 17- Magnetic particles for biomedical applications. 18-  Specialized fabrication: rapid prototyping. 19- Manufacturing issues. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780387848716 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>BIOMATERIALES<br/>MATERIALES MEDICOS
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>615.46