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Biomaterials: Degradation and Effects on Living Tissue

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Besides the already explained biocompatibility concept of Chap. 2 the cytotoxicity of the biomaterial should be an additional concept to be explored so as to elucidate the body of knowledge involving interface interactions between tissues/biomaterial for the in vivo condition.

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    Venina dos Santos

  2. UCS, Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Rosmary Nichele Brandalise

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dos Santos, V., Brandalise, R.N., Savaris, M. (2017). Biomaterials: Degradation and Effects on Living Tissue. In: Engineering of Biomaterials. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58607-6_8

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