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In this chapter, we presented an introductory overview of biomaterials and the biomaterials field. Materials have been used to repair the human body since antiquity, but their use and degree of sophistication have increased significantly over time, particularly over the last several decades:

 In recent years, there has been a radical shift in the approach to designing and selecting biomaterials, in which biological sciences are now playing a significant role, often comparable to materials science and engineering. Instead of the previous approach in which biomaterials were normally selected from durable materials available off the shelf to serve a mainly mechanical function, biomaterials are now being designed to be degradable or bioactive, to deliver biomolecules at targeted sites in the body, and to elicit specific responses from cells and tissues to stimulate the body to heal itself;

 Biomaterials have become a truly interdisciplinary (multidisciplinary) field that serves an important role in society as an academic field, as a research area for developing new or improved devices, and as a manufacturing industry.