About this Research Topic
Regenerative periodontal and peri-implant therapies comprise techniques mainly designed to restore the periodontal/peri-implant apparatus (tooth-supporting structures or around the dental implant) that have been lost. The term ‘regeneration’ is defined as a reconstruction of lost or injured tissues in such a way that both the original structures and their function are entirely restored. Procedures aimed at restoring lost periodontal tissues favor the creation of new attachments, including forming a new periodontal ligament with its fibers inserted in newly formed cementum and alveolar bone, in the case of teeth. Several biomaterials and biological mediators have been proposed to completely restore the damaged tissues with less invasiveness and a tailored approach.
Tooth loss, bone, and soft tissue remodeling are typical of inflammatory processes or age-related decay. Periodontitis has been estimated in about 27% of the global population. The primary alternative to mobile prostheses is restoring a missing tooth with dental implants. This condition leads the clinician to evaluate the predisposition of bone and supporting tissue around the missing tooth site. It requires a regenerative approach before or during implant insertion in several conditions. In addition, peri-implantitis has been estimated in 20% of the population and is defined as an inflammatory process around implants with soft tissue inflammation and supporting bone loss.
This Research Topic intends to recruit articles on regeneration in periodontal and peri-implant tissues to provide better new approaches, techniques, and materials to improve clinical performance. All of them should be related to the developments and usage of biomaterials applied to tissue regeneration (soft and hard tissue reconstruction). Topics that will be considered for this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, tissue substitutes, bone substitutes, biomaterial sciences, bioprinting, scaffolds, enriched scaffolds, and biomaterial processing and applications, as well as methods and clinical applications of biologics, and devices in animal models and human patients. We invite you to contribute full research papers, review articles, case series, opinions, and communications to this Research Topic.
Tooth loss, bone, and soft tissue remodeling are typical of inflammatory processes or age-related decay. Periodontitis has been estimated in about 27% of the global population. The primary alternative to mobile prostheses is restoring a missing tooth with dental implants. This condition leads the clinician to evaluate the predisposition of bone and supporting tissue around the missing tooth site. It requires a regenerative approach before or during implant insertion in several conditions. In addition, peri-implantitis has been estimated in 20% of the population and is defined as an inflammatory process around implants with soft tissue inflammation and supporting bone loss.
This Research Topic intends to recruit articles on regeneration in periodontal and peri-implant tissues to provide better new approaches, techniques, and materials to improve clinical performance. All of them should be related to the developments and usage of biomaterials applied to tissue regeneration (soft and hard tissue reconstruction). Topics that will be considered for this Research Topic include, but are not limited to, tissue substitutes, bone substitutes, biomaterial sciences, bioprinting, scaffolds, enriched scaffolds, and biomaterial processing and applications, as well as methods and clinical applications of biologics, and devices in animal models and human patients. We invite you to contribute full research papers, review articles, case series, opinions, and communications to this Research Topic.
Keywords: Regeneration, Periodontics, Peri-implant, soft tissue, Dental implant, Regenerative techniques, Bone, Biomaterials
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