Zhi-Heng Quan

The immune-microbe-metal triad: a vicious cycle driving biomaterial corrosion in the oral inflammatory microenvironment

The interface around a dental implant behaves as a dynamic ecosystem. The metal surface, the colonizing microbiota, and the host immune network continually interact rather than remaining inert neighbors. Once this equilibrium breaks, a destructive cascade can feed on itself. This challenges the older view that peri-imp...