Metal and Ceramic Biomaterials

(3 Credits)

Covers the structure and properties of metals, alloys, and ceramics generally used in dentistry and medicine and their criteria for clinical applications. Also discusses fundamental processes involving deformation, precipitation, order-disorder transformations, principles involving phase diagrams, recent advances in the development of titanium and other alloys for dental and orthopedic implants, low golds, and nonprecious alloys, and development of advanced ceramics.