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RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 25, 2016 : Use of a novel material, nanocrystalline yttria-stabilized zirconia (nc-YSZ), to make cranial implants may allow the safe and suitable use of laser-based remedies to treat brain disorders and combat the bacterial infections that are a leading cause of cranial implant failure. Nc-YSZ is a transparent version of the same ceramic that is used to green laser crystal make dental capped teeth and trendy implants. Known as Window to the Brain Silicon Windows (WttB), an implant made with nc-YSZ could improve patient care by providing a way to both deliver and collect light to and from the brain, on demand, over large areas, and on a recurring basis without the need for repeated craniotomies. Nc-YSZ was created by professor Guillermo Aguilar and his team at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). In its most recent study, the research team at UCR demonstrated that when a culture of E. coli was seeded between an nc-YSZ implant and an agar plate and irradiated using NIR laser treatment, the E. coli biofilm formation across the thickness of the implant was reduced. The results of the experiment declare that using nc-YSZ for a cranial implant in vivo may allow for use of lasers to LiNbO3 crystal provide selective, noninvasive, chronic treatment of microbe layers that form under cranial implants, LBO crystal without causing adverse winter damage to the underlying host tissue when using appropriate laser variables. "This was an important finding because it showed that the combination of our transparent implant and laser-based remedies enables us to treat not only brain disorders, but also to tackle bacterial infections that are common after cranial implants. These infections are specially challenging to treat because many antibiotics do not enter the blood brain barrier, inches said Devin Binder, Meters. D., a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist in UCR's School of Medicine.