Bone anchored prosthetic attachments, like other percutaneous devices, suffer from poor soft tissue integration, seen as chronic inflammation, infection, epithelial downgrowth and regression. We looked …
Traumatic injury to the spinal cord often results in irreversible loss of function as the central nervous system fails to spontaneously regenerate. The application of …
This dissertation discusses two related clinical applications of visible regime diffuse reflectance spectroscopy as well as two new configurations of liquid crystal microspectrometer suitable in …
Desirable cytocompatibility properties of nano-sized ceramics were combined with the tunable degradability and deformability of a select polymer (poly-lactide-co-glycolide, or PLGA) to optimize biological and …
Titanium, titanium alloys, and cobalt-chromium alloys are widely used in orthopedic applications. To promote the osseointegration of implants into juxtaposed bone, an electrochemical surface modification …