Alveolar bone tissue engineering using composite scaffolds for drug delivery
For many years, bone graft substitutes have been used to reconstruct bone defects in orthopedic and dental fields. However, synthetic bone substitutes such as hydroxyapatite or β-tricalcium phosphate have no osteoinductive or osteogenic abilities. Bone tissue engineering has also been promoted as an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2010-08-01
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| Series: | Japanese Dental Science Review |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761609000933 |