Proceedings of the First International Conference on Interfaces in Medicine and Mechanics

1 Implants in Medicine and Dentistry.- The importance of bending stresses in the leaflets of pericardial heart valve substitutes.- The tearing strength of chemically modified pericardium.- Prosthetic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction Biomechanical and functional performance.- A comparative analysis of four types of prosthetic anterior cruciate ligament replacement in the goat.- Biomaterials in Otology. Experimental aspects and general clinical implications.- Changes in the material properties and function of pericardial bioprosthetic heart valves in vivo.- Hydrodynamic characteristics of tapered arterial prostheses.- The history of implants in oral surgery.- Osseointegrated implants in the mandible using Nobelpharma Implant System..- 2 Implant Interaction with Tissue.- Biodegradation and phagocyte/polymer interaction.- Biodegradation-dependent trace element accumulation: A study of calcium phosphate ceramics and polymers.- The interaction between connective tissues and implant materials.- Computer-assisted image analysis in tissue-material interactions.- Titanium implant surfaces.- 3 Tissue/Bone Examination.- Choosing a signal for vibration analysis of fracture healing.- Collagen fibre orientation in bone.- Skeletal strain and the maintenance of bone mass.- Continuous mineral matrices in bone and dentine.- 4 Materials Examination.- Scanning electron microscope appearance of the enamel/composite/bracket boundaries in orthodontic bonding.- Titanium alloys for biomedical applications..- Experimental mastoid obliteration with hydroxyapatite tricalcium phosphate (Zimmer/Xomed) and fibrin glue (Immuno-Austria).- Role of design and material on stress distributions of cemented hip prostheses.- The fracture toughness of dental restorative materials.- The etching of biological material in vacuum. Paper I & II.- The Direct Deposition of Carbon, Suitable for Surgical Implants.- 5 Finite Elements in Medicine & Dentistry.- Numerical Modelling — Basis & Applications.- Finite element analysis of the elbow after joint replacement.- The use of finite element stress analysis in the assessment of tooth movement.- A finite element analysis of the natural frequencies of vibration of the human tympanic membrane. Part II.- Mathematical modelling in medicine.- Stresses along the composite resin-dentine interface analysed by the finite element method.- Improvement of mechanical strength of ceramic head for hip prosthesis by means of fitting geometry modifications: A finite element analysis.- 6 Materials Development.- Rubber reinforced polymers for bone cement — morphology and mechanical properties.- Dental application of novel morphology polymers.- Nitrided ferritic steels.- Alumina vs zirconium oxide: a comparative wear test.- 3-D porous alumina-bioglass composite coating (Poral R) for cementless ceramic hip prosthetic cup.- 7 Materials Standards and Safety.- Safety aspects of surgically-implantable devices.- The changing role of industry for implant technology.- Standards in Dentistry and Medicine.- Appendix Abstracts of Contributed Presentations.- Stress analysis using thermal emission.- The application of surface texture measurement for studying the failure of bone implants and dental fillings.- Corrosion resistance of titanium.- Fatigue testing of hip prostheses.- Conformation of adsorbed proteins and enzymes: Chymotrypsin at the polystyrene/water interface.- Interfacial shear strength and penetration of PMMA cement into bone.- History of orthopaedic implants.