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From Replacement to Regeneration: Are Bio-Nanomaterials the Emerging Prospect for Therapy of Defective Joints and Bones?
Sheeana Gangadoo, Andrew W Taylor-Robinson* and James ChapmanSchool of Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia
- Corresponding Author:
- Andrew W Taylor-Robinson
School of Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University
Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia
Tel: 61749232008
E-mail: a.taylor-robinson@cqu.edu.au
Received date: June 18, 2015; Accepted date: July 10, 2015; Published date: July 17, 2015
Citation: Gangadoo S, Taylor-Robinson AW, Chapman J (2015) From Replacement to Regeneration: Are Bio-Nanomaterials the Emerging Prospect for Therapy of Defective Joints and Bones? J Biotechnol Biomater 5:187. doi:10.4172/2155- 952X.1000187
Copyright: © 2015 Gangadoo S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Healthcare is now regarded as one of the largest costs to any government budget and thus innovative ideas are sought as a means to reduce this spiralling bill. A significant proportion of this expenditure relates to specialised consultative care and post-operative therapy. In order to both mitigate the expense and improve the long-term effectiveness of orthopaedic surgery, including arthroplasty, the conception and creation of new biomaterials for treatment of defective joints and bones in the human body has become an emerging area of translational research over the last decade. In this review, we discuss a series of novel biomaterials and strategies for their therapeutic use that have arisen recently as viable approaches to regenerative medicine.
