Virtual surgical planning in orthognathic surgery: a dental hospital's 10-year experience.

Purpose: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate how the utilization of virtual surgical planning (VSP) and the epidemiological profile of patients undergoing orthognathic surgery (OGS) have changed in the past decade.

Methods: The records of patients who had undergone orthognathic surgery at a national dental hospital were reviewed. Trends in VSP, epidemiological data, presentation of dentofacial deformity, and management details were recorded.

Science and practice: challenges and perspectives of contemporary orthodontics.

Whether medicine is a science remains a philosophical question. Yet undeniably advances in science have revolutionarily influenced almost every aspect of medicine including dentistry. It is now exactly one hundred years from Edward H.

The effect of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) promoter on force-induced MMP-1 expression in human periodontal ligament cells.

Matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) 1G/2G (-1,607) polymorphisms have been identified and shown to influence the transcription of the MMP-1 gene. In order to compare the expression of MMP-1 with different MMP-1 gene promoter alleles after force loading, human periodontal ligament (PDL) cells were cultured and genotyped into three alleles by polymerase chain reaction and restriction endonuclease cleavage. The three genotypes of PDL cells were centrifuged and the expression of MMP-1 mRNA and protein were determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Molecular biology and its applications in orthodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Molecular biology is an exciting, rapidly expanding field, which has enabled enormously greater understanding of the biology of diseases and malfunctions in many fields. It chiefly concerns itself with understanding the interactions between the various systems of a cell, including the interrelationship of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and how these interactions are regulated. Since the introduction of molecular biology into modern science, numerous other fields have been enabled to go "molecular".

Cell biology in orthodontic tooth movement: the known and the unknown.

This review is aimed at providing, at the cellular level, a concise and complete overview of the important knowledge on the mechanism of orthodontic tooth movement to orthodontists and postgraduates who are involved or interested in basic research. The construction of this article was oriented to the following key questions: Where an osteoclast starts to its first resorption site? When the cascade of a resorption cycle starts? What are the factors involved in bone remodeling and how they orchestrate? What happens before and after the formation of a resorption pit? Major findings in these aspects were summarized and discussed. In addition, related biological phenomenon such as orthodontically induced root resorption was intensively reviewed.

[Dentistry and health system in Netherlands].

This study was aimed to introduce the dental education, practice and the health care system in Netherlands. The quality of dental education in Netherlands is quite high. There are three dental schools and recruit about 300 new students per year.