1.Clinical research progress on corticotomy and modified techniques for accelerating orthodontic tooth move-ment
Journal of Prevention and Treatment for Stomatological Diseases 2024;32(7):562-568
Adjunctive interventions for accelerating orthodontic tooth movement have been a hot topic of interest in orthodontics.Prolonged orthodontic treatment is often associated with multiple potential complications,such as decalcifi-cation,caries,root resorption,and gingival inflammation.Therefore,applying adjunctive interventions that accelerate orthodontic tooth movement and reduce the duration of orthodontic treatment can provide patients with numerous bene-fits that are of profound clinical significance.Currently,adjunctive interventions for accelerating orthodontic tooth move-ment can be divided into two main categories:surgical and nonsurgical.Surgical interventions,represented by corticoto-my and modified corticotomy procedures,are the most common in clinical practice and can minimize the treatment dura-tion,augment alveolar bone,and expand the range of orthodontic tooth movement.However,these procedures are inevi-tably traumatic and have many risks and limitations that prevent them from being widely used in clinical practice.In re-cent years,multiple modified corticotomy techniques,such as corticision,piezocision,micro-osteoperforation,and disci-sion,have been proposed;these techniques can reduce soft and hard tissue damage and the incidence of postoperative complications and are relatively easy to perform in the clinic.Corticotomy and other improved surgical techniques can shorten the duration of orthodontic treatment to a certain extent and promote the recovery of periodontal health with no adverse effects on periodontal,dental,or pulp tissues.However,in clinical application,several potential side effects(such as periodontal tissue damage,root resorption,loss of pulp vitality,etc)and shortcomings need further research with long-term follow-up.
2.Fibroblast membrane-camouflaged nanoparticles for inflammation treatment in the early stage.
Lizhong SUN ; Libang HE ; Wei WU ; Li LUO ; Mingyue HAN ; Yifang LIU ; Shijie SHI ; Kaijing ZHONG ; Jiaojiao YANG ; Jiyao LI
International Journal of Oral Science 2021;13(1):39-39
Unrestrained inflammation is harmful to tissue repair and regeneration. Immune cell membrane-camouflaged nanoparticles have been proven to show promise as inflammation targets and multitargeted inflammation controls in the treatment of severe inflammation. Prevention and early intervention of inflammation can reduce the risk of irreversible tissue damage and loss of function, but no cell membrane-camouflaged nanotechnology has been reported to achieve stage-specific treatment in these conditions. In this study, we investigated the prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of fibroblast membrane-camouflaged nanoparticles for topical treatment of early inflammation (early pulpitis as the model) with the help of in-depth bioinformatics and molecular biology investigations in vitro and in vivo. Nanoparticles have been proven to act as sentinels to detect and competitively neutralize invasive Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (E. coli LPS) with resident fibroblasts to effectively inhibit the activation of intricate signaling pathways. Moreover, nanoparticles can alleviate the secretion of multiple inflammatory cytokines to achieve multitargeted anti-inflammatory effects, attenuating inflammatory conditions in the early stage. Our work verified the feasibility of fibroblast membrane-camouflaged nanoparticles for inflammation treatment in the early stage, which widens the potential cell types for inflammation regulation.
Escherichia coli
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Humans
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Inflammation/drug therapy*
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Nanoparticles