Developmental anomalies in tooth structure can involve dental enamel, dentin, pulp, cementum, or a combination of these tissues. While relatively precise typing of some of these anomalies is now possible using techniques in molecular biology, radiography remains important in the assessment of phenotypic manifestations and is often essential in treatment-planning for esthetics and function of de...

Pain is an undesirable sensation that any person would never want to experience. Dental pain unbearable as the inflammation of dental pulp encased by hard dentin and cementum unlike other parts body deteriorates normal lifestyle experiencing it. Patients experience extreme till commencement treatment. Though right treatment procedure relieves cause pain, post-operative exists complete healing o...

Periodontally affected root surfaces are hyper mineralized, and contaminated with cytotoxic and other biologically active substances especially endotoxins which play a pivotal role in preventing new connective tissue attachment to the exposed root surface. Following root planing the instrumented root surface is invariably covered by smear layer containing remnants of dental calculus, contaminat...

Odontomas are hamartomas composed of various dental tissues, i.e. enamel, dentin, cementum and sometimes pulp. They are slow-growing, benign tumors showing nonaggressive behavior. Most of the odontomes are asymptomatic with unknown etiology, although occasional signs and symptoms related to their presence do occur. Presented here is the case report of 10-year-old girl with impacted left central...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 F. Puoci (ed.), Advanced Polymers in Medicine, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-12478-0_9 Abstract Polymers represent the foundation of modern restorative Dentistry. The majority of dental procedures currently utilized in clinical dentistry depend on the close interaction of polymeric materials with dental tissues. In fact, the dental matrix itself is l...

introduction: during the last decade, advances in tissue engineering and stem cell-based tooth regeneration have provided realistic and attractive means of replacing lost or damaged teeth. the first adult stem cells isolated from dental tissues were dental pulp stem cells (dpscs). when transplanted with hydroxyl apatite/tri calcium phosphate (ha/tcp) powder, they formed a dentin-like structure ...

To elucidate the fate of the epithelial root sheath during initial cellular cementogenesis, we examined developing maxillary first molars of rats by immunohistochemistry for keratin, vimentin, and tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNALP) and by TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL). The advancing root end was divided into three sections, which follow three distinct stages of initi...

Introduction: During the last decade, advances in tissue engineering and stem cell-based tooth regeneration have provided realistic and attractive means of replacing lost or damaged teeth. The first adult stem cells isolated from dental tissues were dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs). When transplanted with hydroxyl apatite/tri calcium phosphate (HA/TCP) powder, they formed a dentin-like structure...