Personalized Dentistry and Orthodontics
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 June 2024) | Viewed by 1073
Special Issue Editor
Interests: orthodontics; biomarkers; mini-implants; orthognathic surgery; cleft lip and palate; craniofacial orthodontics; morphometrics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is dedicated to the use of personalized dentistry and orthodontics. Personalized medicine, in general, is an emerging field in diagnostics and therapeutics that uses the patient’s genetic background to apply an individual approach to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a disease. Likewise, in the field of dentistry and orthodontics, recent advances in genome, proteome and metabolome analysis open new insights in the knowledge of a patient’s individual profile and individual dental and orthodontic treatment.
We are inviting submissions in the form of original research papers, as well as literature reviews or systematic reviews, focusing on the integration of dentistry and orthodontics with the basic sciences to understand the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms and biochemical pathways that need to be revealed.
Some clinical examples include the identification of skeletal-class-II-associated and skeletal-class-III-associated genes, which can facilitate the precise prediction of the craniofacial growth of an individual patient based on their genomic profile. Moreover, some biomarkers were found to provide a quantitative method of assessing a child’s skeletal maturity, which in turn is associated with the efficiency of orthodontic and functional treatment of growing patients. Furthermore, several bone metabolism biochemical markers are involved in orthodontic tooth movement, while others have been associated with orthodontically induced inflammatory root resorption or periodontal inflammation. It is also noteworthy that peri-miniscrew implant GCF biomolecule alterations were observed and correlated to mini-implant success or failure.
Despite the investigations, the clinical applicability of the use of omics technology and biomedicine in dentistry and orthodontics is still limited; nevertheless, a rapid development in this field is expected in order to optimize orthodontic diagnosis, treatment progress and delivery of the best dental and orthodontic treatment outcome.
The collection of papers of this Special Issue will provide an overview of the most innovative efforts in this field to advance precision patient care.
We look forward to receiving your work.
Dr. Athina Chatzigianni
Guest Editor
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