Strategy for a Biomimetic Paradigm in Dental and Craniofacial Tissue Engineering - Biomimetics: Advancing Nanobiomaterials and Tissue Engineering - page 116

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Strategy for a Biomimetic Paradigm
in Dental and Craniofacial
Tissue Engineering
Mona K. Marei 1, *, Naglaa B. Nagy 2 , Mona S. Saad 3 , Samer H. Zaky 4 ,
Rania M. Elbackly 5 , Ahmad M. Eweida 6 and Mohamed A. Alkhodary 7
1 Professor, Department of Prosthodontics; head of Tissue Engineering
Laboratories, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Egypt
2 Professor, Oral Biology Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Tanta University
and Tissue Engineering Laboratories, Faculty of Dentistry,
Alexandria University, Egypt
3 Assistant lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics; researcher at the Tissue
Engineering Laboratories, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Egypt
4 Postdoctoral associate, Center of Craniofacial Regeneration, McGowan
Institute of Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA;
researcher at the Tissue Engineering Laboratories, Faculty of Dentistry,
Alexandria University, Egypt
5 Lecturer, Department of Conservative Dentistry; researcher
at the Tissue Engineering Laboratories, Faculty of Dentistry,
Alexandria University, Egypt
6 Assistant lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Head and
Neck and Endocrine Surgery; researcher at the Tissue Engineering
Laboratories, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Egypt
7 Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics; researcher at the Tissue
Engineering Laboratories, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Egypt
Abstract
Biomimetics deals with the realization of processes and construction, as well as the
development of principles of nature in technological applications and devices, i.e.,
there is a transfer (of knowledge) from biology to technology. It is worth noting that
identical copies from nature to technology are not feasible in biomimetics. Instead,
biomimetics encompasses a creative conversion into technology that is often based