Chapter 17: Mesoporous Bioactive Glasses in Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery

Mesoporous glasses exhibit the quickest in vitro bioactive response observed to date for a synthetic material. Furthermore, they present mesopore arrangements and very high surface areas and pore volumes. All these characteristics make them promising candidates as implants in the very near future. In this chapter, the state-of-the-art and the development of current research in mesoporous glasses as scaffolds in bone tissue engineering applications, and as matrixes in drug delivery systems, are reviewed.