A new implant is currently being developed that may change the way doctors can deliver treatments to patients with brain injuries and disorders. It’s a project that is being completed as a combined effort led by Guillermo Aguilar, professor of mechanical engineering at UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering and Santiago Camacho-Lopez, from the Centro de Investgacion Cientofica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Mexico.
Various researchers came together at the University of California Riverside to create an implant that will provide a ‘window to the brain’ and allow treatment to be delivered invasively to those suffering from potentially life-threatening illnesses such as neurodegenerative diseases, strokes, brain cancers as well as brain injuries.
The implant itself is made of a transparent version of the material yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) which is also used in both hip implants and some dental treatments. By using the implant, the team can abolish the risks associated with difficult procedures such as craniotomies and offer an invasive laser-based treatment that would have the same if not a better result.
Conclusions from the study also indicated that YSZ would potentially be more useful than the materials currently used in cranial implants as would allow doctors to combat infections by lasers rather than go through the complicated procedure of removing the implant. This is an amazing breakthrough for the medical field as we discover this material to be more biocompatible than any other material known and we will likely be seeing YSZ used a lot more across the board.
Story Via; UcrToday
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