Interfaces in Medicine and Mechanics—2

Abstract

1. Material Science of Clinical Implants.- Polyactive: A Bone-Bonding Polymer.- Biomechanical Behaviour of Articular Disc in Adult Dogs: A Measuring Method and Preliminary Results.- The Immune System at the Metallic Implant Interface: Metal Ions Inhibit Immune Function but are not Cytotoxic.- Differential Rate of Bone Growth to Titanium Alloy and Stainless Steel Implants.- Enhancement of Bony Ingrowth to Titanium and Titanium Alloy Orthopaedic Implants in Experimental Model in the Rat.- The Influence of the Plate Stiffness of the Tibial Plateau of a Knee Prosthesis.- Changes of Antibiotic Sensitivity after Contact 'in Vitro' of Bacteria with Metals.- A New Technique for Intact Interface Studies of Bone and Biomaterials Using Light and Electron Microscopy.- Preferred Orientation in Bone.- Bone Mineral as Seen in the Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes.- 2. Mathematical Modelling of Prosthetic Surgery.- Experimental and Theoretical Thermal Effects During Cementation of an Endomedullary Infibulum.- Pin-Bone Interface: A Geometric and Material Non-Linear Analysis.- The Ellipse of Elasticity Applied to a Dental Prosthesis.- Three Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of a Saggital Split Osteotomy.- Debonding.- 3. Successes and Failures of Materials in Medicine.- Formation of Extracellular Deposits by Macrophages Exposed to Poorly Degradable Biomaterials.- Successes and Failures Following 5 Years of Clinical Experience with the Surgicraft ABC Prosthetic Anterior Cruciate Ligament.- Bone Cement: Retrieved Wear Particles vs Fabricated Wear Particles.- Cortical Bone Hypertrophy at the Tip of Femoral Prosthesis: Biological-Mechanical Correlation.- Success and Failure of Experimental Active Glasses in Periodontal Disease Repair.- 4. Tissue Structure, Histories of Applications.- Structural and Cellular Reactions of Bone Tissue to Orthopaedic Implants.- Numerical and Clinical Analysis of Orthodontic Tooth Movement.- Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) Knee-Ankle-Foot-Orthosis (KAFO) Prototype for Myopathic Patients.- Improvement of Fracture Healing by Applied Axial Micromovement: A Clinical Study.- Improvement in the Design of Bone Screws for External Fixation.- Clinical Application of Total Artificial Heart (TAH) and Blood Rheology.- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Prosthesis: 'Programmed Loosening' Augmentation as a Solution to the Problem.- Dentine Microstructure in Normal Deciduous Teeth by Collagenase Etching.- 5. Numerical Analysis of Biological Implants and Surrounding Tissue.- Poroelastic Finite Element Models in Biomechanics-an Overview.- Stress Analyses of Bones and Simulation of Mechanically Induced Cortical Remodeling.- Biomechanical Responses of Craniofacial and Alveolar Bones to Mechanical Forces in Orthodontics.- Non-Linear Behaviour of the Periodontal Ligament: A Numerical Approach.- Solid Modeling and Finite Element Modeling of Bones and Implant-Bone Systems.- The Effect of Prosthesis Orientation on 'Stress-Shielding' Using Finite Element Analysis-Indications as to Bone Remodeling.- Le Lesioni da Casco Motociclistico.- Local Strain Deviation (LSD) and Bone Remodeling: A Comparative Study on Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty.- 6 and 7. Interactions in Medicine and Mechanics.- Development of Bone-Implant Interface During Healing Phase of Dental Implants.- Prediction of the Long-Term Evolution of the Bone Stock Around a Tailor-Made Hip Implant.- A Combined Anatomical and Biomechanical Approach to the Sacro-Iliac Joints.- The Biological Response to Bone Cement and the Influence of Incorporated Growth Hormone.- Experimental and Theoretical Thermal Effects During Cementation of an Endomedullary Infibulum.- An Investigation into the Interface Mechanics in Fractures, Part 1: Theoretical Models.- An Investigation into the Interface Mechanics in Fractures, Part 2: Experimental Results.- Interface Interactions Between Hydrophilic Contact Lenses and Ocular Tissues.- Study of the Bone-Biomaterial Interface Reactions in an in Vitro Bone Forming System: A Preliminary Report.- Growth Hormone Stimulates Osteoid Formation at a Bone-Ceramic Interface.- An Interface Comparison Between a Press-Fit and Ha-Coated Composite Hip Prosthesis.- Naproxen and Skeletal Implant Interfaces.- Chronic Indomethacin Therapy and the Interfaces of Screws and Porous Implants in Bone.- 8. Medical Physics.- Characterization of Local Anisotropic Elastic Properties of Femoral and Tibial Diaphysis Using Acoustic Transmission Measurements and Acoustic Microscopy.- An In-Vitro Comparative Study of the Wall Shear Rate Produced by the Central Axis Prosthetic Heart Valve Using a Laser Doppler Anemometer.- Microscope Image Analysis in Biomaterial Testing.- Indirect Measurement of Arterial Pressure, Blood Flow and Volume Elastic Modulus in Human Fingers Using Electric Impedance-Cuff.- Electrical Impedance Plethysmogram in Peripheral Blood Flow.