**9. Future challenges**

Silver nanoparticles functionalized wound dressings have significant antimicrobial activity and provide faster and effective tissue repair thus they are widely

#### **Figure 1.**

*Schematic layout of hydrogel membrane reducing bacterial invasion and accelerating wound healing process.*


#### **Table 4.**

*Silver nanoparticles incorporated hydrogels for wound management.*

explored for wound healing activity. Beside this they are far away from clinical practice as well as commercialization. More rigorous preclinical investigations are still required to validate their capability for tissue regeneration. Apart from that work is also needed to be done on industrial scale up techniques for commercialization.

## **10. Conclusion**

Nanomaterial's now a days representing potential ways for combating microbial related diseases and disorders. Wounds especially chronic ones burdened with resistant microbes are posing serious challenge to healthcare system. For that purpose silver nanoparticles impregnated wound dressing due to their excellent antimicrobial potential are not less than a boon. Along with sterilization they are proven to fasten tissue repair in wounds. Presently more rigorous efforts are needed in their preclinical investigations to evaluate their efficacy verses safety ratio. They have capability to become potential wound dressing of future.

#### **Acknowledgements**

The authors are also thankful to Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar for providing various facilities to carry out the work.

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Neena Bedi and Preet Mohinder Singh Bedi

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*Silver Nanoparticles Impregnated Wound Dressings: Recent Progress and Future Challenges*

Atamjit Singh\*, Kirandeep Kaur, Komalpreet Kaur, Jaijeet Singh, Nitish Kumar,

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*Silver Nanoparticles Impregnated Wound Dressings: Recent Progress and Future Challenges DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98731*
