Emerging local delivery strategies to enhance bone regeneration.

In orthopedics and dentistry there is an increasing need for novel biomaterials and clinical strategies to achieve predictable bone regeneration. These novel molecular strategies have the potential to eliminate the limitations of currently available approaches. Specifically, they have the potential to reduce or eliminate the need to harvest autogenous bone, and the overall complexity of the clinical procedures.

Current status of patient recall in U.S. predoctoral dental school clinics.

The Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA)'s revised standard 2-23, which went into effect in July 2013, requires U.S. dental graduates to be competent in "evaluation of the outcomes of treatment, recall strategies, and prognosis.

Taste change associated with a dental procedure: case report and review of literature.

Loss or alteration of taste is a rare phenomenon that may be idiopathic or may be caused by head trauma, medication use or systemic and local factors including various invasive dental procedures resulting in nerve damage. We present an unusual case of generalized taste change following an oral surgical procedure. The case is presented to enhance understanding of taste disorders and their relation to a localized traumatic event.

Dental follicle progenitor cell heterogeneity in the developing mouse periodontium.

As a developmental precursor for diverse periodontal tissues, the dental follicle (DF) harbors great promise for periodontal tissue regeneration. However, development of optimal therapy awaits the answer to a key question that impinges on many issues in development-Do adult progenitor tissues form a homogeneous cell population that differentiates into target tissues when they arrive at the site, or they contain heterogeneous cell populations that are committed to specific fates? To address the homogeneity/heterogeneity question, we analyzed differentiation pathways and markers in several cloned DF cell lines. Our studies revealed that each of our cloned DF lines featured remarkably unique characteristics, indicative of a separate and distinct lineage.