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Dental Pulp Stem Cells: Isolation, Characterization, Expansion, and Odontoblast Differentiation for Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary area offering a promising approach by the use of stem cells combined with scaffolds and signaling factors for regeneration of damaged or lost tissues. Incorporation o...
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In Vitro Caries Models for the Assessment of Novel Restorative Materials
Due to the high failure rates of traditional dental restorations, there is an ongoing effort to develop modified and new restorative biomaterials in dentistry. Being the most commonly used restorative material...
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In Vivo Rodent Models for Studying Dental Caries and Pulp Disease
Dental caries is an infectious oral disease caused primarily by complex interactions of cariogenic oral flora (biofilm) with dietary carbohydrates on the tooth surface over time. Streptococcus mutans and Streptoc...
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Saliva and Gingival Crevicular Fluid (GCF) Collection for Biomarker Screening
Assaying different biological markers (biomarkers) is commonly used to monitor health status and aid in the diagnosis of diseases. With the recent advances in highly sensitive protein assays, whole saliva (WS)...
