CERAMICS, CELLS AND TISSUES. BIOCERAMICI, CELLULE E TESSUTI

Prefazione - Indice

Prefazione

The aim of the meeting is the acquisition of an adequate uderstanding of what will happen to the biomaterial owing to the action of surrounding tissue and what will happen to the tissue owing to the presence of the biomaterial.
What is mainly needed to this effect is an accurate statistical survey of all successful and unsuccessful results on record - including the (few) cases of tumour formation - to determine the causes of the failures. It is al so essential to investigate how adhesion of the tissue to the biomaterial takes piace and, in particular, what occurs at the interface between the newly forming tissue and the surface of the prosthetic material. This type of study must be based on a detailed and exhaustive knowledge of both the historical-tissural mechanisms and the behaviour of the material. In the investigation of the latter aspect a key role is played by physical- chemistry, in terms of correct interpretation of the results obtained and of correct analysis of the instrumentally detected data in themselves. Since in fact each instrumental technique has both advantages and disadvantages, it is essential that the various researchers should be able to clearly define which spectroscopic techniques are mest suitable, how reliable the data so obtained actually are, and what standards can be adopted to make the data supplied by the different research groups as uniform and comparable as possible. A better understanding of the subject proposed will also result in an improved performance of materials already widely known and experimented.
Contribution on this topics were coming from different fields of scientific interest such as: physical-chemistry, spectroscopy, histopathology, cytology, different sectors of surgery, etc.


A. Ravaglioli
A. Krajewski