Bone tissue engineering may provide an alternative to the repairs to skeletal defects resulting from disease, trauma or surgery. Scaffold has played an important role in bone tissue engineering, which functions as the architecture for bone in growth. In this paper, the authors gave a brief introduction about the requirement of bone tissue engineering scaffold, the key of the design of scaffolds and the current research on this subject.
Biodegradation, Environmental ; Bioprosthesis ; Bone Substitutes ; chemistry ; metabolism ; Mechanics ; Surface Properties ; Tissue Engineering ; methods