What is it about?
This chapter explains the common biomaterials in use today with their characteristics and potential complications.
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Why is it important?
Biomaterials can be used in place of grafts that necessarily leave a donor site scar. Having better biomaterials will reduce the scarring in patients.
Perspectives
Mihail Climov has a background in transplantation, worked in my lab and is a Plastic Surgery Resident in West Virginia. Tripp Leavitt worked in both the Longaker lab at Stanford as well as my laboratory. He is now a plastic surgery resident in Cleveland. Joe Molnar and I were graduate students at MIT and we both worked with John F. Burke MD. Joe is a Plastic Surgeon at Wake Forest University.
Dr. Dennis P Orgill
Brigham and Women's Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Natural Biomaterials for Skin Tissue Engineering, January 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-801654-1.00008-5.
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