Bioactive dental materials-Do they exist and what does bioactivity mean?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department Biomaterials Science and Turku Clinical Biomaterial Centre-TCBC, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku and City of Turku, Welfare Division, Lemminkäisenkatu 2, FI-20520 Turku, Finland; Institute of Biomaterials, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Electronic address: Pekka.vallittu@utu.fi.
• ² Department Biomaterials Science and Turku Clinical Biomaterial Centre-TCBC, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku and City of Turku, Welfare Division, Lemminkäisenkatu 2, FI-20520 Turku, Finland; Institute of Biomaterials, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Centre, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland; School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.