Biomaterials

Biomaterials Applications

Biomaterials are the kind of materials that are introduced into the body as a medical device for medical purposes. These materials are having numerous medical applications such as cancer therapy, artificial ligaments and tendons, orthopaedic for joint replacements, bone plates, and ophthalmic applications in contact lenses, for wound healing in the form of surgical sutures, clips, nerve regeneration, in reproductive therapy as breast implants, etc. These materials also have some non-medical applications such as to grow cells in culture medium, assay of blood proteins in laboratories, etc.