Abstract
The advent of nanotechnology during the 1980s led to modern science in fields with diverse applications like engineering, medicine, architecture, food, and textile. Nanomedicine embraces the medical uses of nanotechnology, biological devices and sensors, and molecular nanoscience. Dentistry and orthopedics utilize nanostructures to impart unique characteristics or enhance the existing properties of materials and devices to treat related diseases or ailments. Therapy strategies developed for disorders such as oral cancer, root canal infections, dental cavities, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, osteomyelitis, and osteosarcoma promise to provide ease, comfort, and prevent complications by identifying disease markers, detecting molecular cell changes, and creating compelling novel therapeutic and delivery agents. The complexity, challenges, and prospects of dental and orthopedic nanomedicine are intriguing—an account of which this chapter describes.
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