stem cells: boon to dentistry and medicine

Stem Cells in Dentistry: A Boon to Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Objectives: Here, a brief overview of the state-of-the-science in dentistry, oromaxillofacial diseases especially oral cancers is given and discussion of possible implications of the stem cell hypothesis to the treatment and management part is focussed. Material and Methods: The authors used „„PUBMED‟‟ to find relevant literature written in English and published from the discovery of stem cells...

Nanotechnology: A Boon to Dentistry

Dentistry is frequently facing revolutions in order to provide a most reliable and comfortable therapeutic option for the patients. Recently, nanotechnology has emerged as a new science exploi­ ting specific phenomena and direct manipulation of materials on nanoscale. Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometer (10–9 m). Nano...

Stem cells and dentistry.

Dental Residents’ Knowledge and Attitude towards Stem Cells and Regenerative Dentistry

Objectives: Success of regenerative dental procedures highly depends on their acceptance by the clinicians; yet, little is known about dental residents’ attitudes regarding this new technology. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitude of post-graduate dental students towards stem cells and regenerative dentistry as part of future dental treatments. Methods: This cross...

Introduction to stem cells and regenerative medicine.

Stem cells are a population of undifferentiated cells characterized by the ability to extensively proliferate (self-renewal), usually arise from a single cell (clonal), and differentiate into different types of cells and tissue (potent). There are several sources of stem cells with varying potencies. Pluripotent cells are embryonic stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of the embryo and i...

Mesenchymal dental stem cells in regenerative dentistry

In the last decade, tissue engineering is a field that has been suffering an enormous expansion in the regenerative medicine and dentistry. The use of cells as mesenchymal dental stem cells of easy access for dentist and oral surgeon, immunosuppressive properties, high proliferation and capacity to differentiate into odontoblasts, cementoblasts, osteoblasts and other cells implicated in the tee...