Periodontium bestows vision!!

Smile Line and Periodontium Visibility

A patient’s smile expresses a feeling of joy, success, sensuality, affection and courtesy, and reveals self-confidence and kindness. A smile is more than a method of communicating, it is a means of socialization and attraction whose advantages are taken for granted in the media, both publicly and politically (Gandet, 1987). This media portrayal of the stereotyped smile leads to a standardizatio...

Aging and the periodontium

Correspondence to: Simone Guimarães Farias Gomes Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba UNICAMP Av. Limeira 901 C.P. 52, CEP 13414-903, Piracicaba, SP, Brasil E-mail: [email protected] Received for publication: November 11, 2009 Accepted: March 20, 2010 Abstract The geriatric population has been growing fast over the last decades in Brazil and all over the world, changing demographics. Additi...

Beta spectrin bestows protein 4.1 sensitivity on spectrin-actin interactions

The ability of protein 4.1 to stimulate the binding of spectrin to F-actin has been compared by cosedimentation analysis for three avian (erythrocyte, brain, and brush border) and two mammalian (erythrocyte and brain) spectrin isoforms. Human erythroid protein 4.1 stimulated actin binding of all spectrins except the brush border isoform (TW 260/240). These results suggested that the beta subuni...

Teng Periodontium T - cell - mediated Immunity in the − − Protective and Destructive Immunity in the Periodontium

Fibroblast Heterogeneity in Periodontium – a Review

Fibroblast heterogeneity applies to both phenotypic and functional properties exhibited by a fibroblast population within or across tissues (Mc Culloch et al) There is significant evidence that fibroblasts are heterogeneous with respect to functional properties, and that certain subpopulations of these cells may be clonally selected and expanded in diseased tissues. There are wide variations of...