Already the teeth who lack of bone to hold them can replace.
III course of regeneration and bone reconstruction.
-tissue engineering is a technical revolutionary in bone regeneration and one of the great innovations that will be announced in the course organized by SECOM
-hospitals as the Central of the Ulla Gómez defence, organized by course, and others in Barcelona and Valladolid are developing research projects in this new field which starts to apply already in human
Madrid, February 2012.- patients who had lost their teeth and could not receive implants due to lack of bone to hold them can recover their teeth thanks to stem cells. The technique that allows it is tissue engineering, which will be one of the advances that occur today in III course of regeneration and bone reconstruction in advanced Preprotésica surgery, organized by the Spanish society of surgery Oral and maxillofacial (SECOM).
The Hospital Central of the defence Gómez Ulla, is held where the course is developing several projects of research into these techniques that ” intend to implement soon in human ”, explains one of the directors of the course, the doctor José Carlos Diaz-Mauriñoy, Chief of the service of Oral and maxillofacial surgery at this hospital. Other hospitals in Barcelona and Valladolid, studies are under way with stem cells to the maxilla bone regeneration.
A Korean study published last January in Tissue Engineering confirms the “application of stem cells for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine”. View Dr. Diaz-Mauriñoy, “numerous recent studies confirm the application of stem cells for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine with good results.” “After a first phase of experimentation with animals, it has passed the phase of clinical trial, which is being in use of stem cells to regenerate bone tissue”.
Implants can solve the loss of teeth, which affects the majority of the population at some point, according to this expert. However, “not all patients can benefit from the use of implants.” “In many cases the implantology solution is limited by the atrophy or destruction of the alveolar bone should stay the implant, which is why the reconstruction and regeneration of lost bone tissue is something inherent in implantology”, explains.
This technical revolutionary allows you to retrieve the bone lost from cells extracted from adipose tissue from patients own mesenchymal ”, explains one of the directors of the course, Dr. Fernando GarcÃa MarÃn, of the same service for Oral and maxillofacial surgery.
At the meeting dedicated to the tissue engineering will be know how this technique can improve the quality of life for many patients, adds: “this new system of bone regeneration will also be applicable to those people with large bone deficits due to tumors or accidents ”.
“Different alternative reconstruction
In addition to tissue engineering, all the existing techniques for regeneration and reconstruction of the jaw, with all the latest advances and innovations is audit to fund this course as the sandwich techniques used when there is atrophy of the jaw and are unable to implant ”, explains Dr. GarcÃa MarÃn.
The day has the presence of experts from national and international renown as Lorenzo Moroni, of the University of Twente in the Netherlands and Professor Maria Vallet, of the Complutense University of Madrid, national prize for research Leonardo Torres Quevedo for his work on bone tissue engineering.
