| Seq #138 | Friday, March 23, 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Ernest N. Morial Convention Center 283, Symposium - Group/Division Sponsored | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pulp Fiction and Reality: Cell-material Interactions, Degradation and Regeneration | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sponsored by: Dental Materials, Pulp Biology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: Resin composites and resin-reinforced glass-ionomer cements are widely used in the daily practice, however many in vitro data suggest that they may be harmful for pulp and gingival cells. Interactions between cells and material are mostly due to free monomers that are released from the material during setting and later during degradation. One aim of the symposium is to describe the cellular mechanisms that are involved in the adverse reactions and in regeneration and to review where we are going to modulate these effects. Furthermore, new biological materials are becoming available for direct stimulation of dentin regeneration. These bioactive materials are either extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules or some peptidic domains of ECM. Progenitor cells can be also used as tools for pulp repair or, and this may be more promising for the future, for dental tissue regeneration. Thus, the eventual mutual interaction of cellular toxicity and regeneration shall be discussed in this symposium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairperson: M. GOLDBERG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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