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Hindawi

BioMed Research International


Volume 2017, Article ID 2520536, 2 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2520536

Editorial
Biomaterials for Dental Applications

Elif Bahar Tuna,1 Yoshiki Oshida,2,3 Bugra Ozen,4,5


Elizabeta Gjorgievska,6 and Tamer Tuzuner7
1
Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
2
Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN, USA
3
University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA, USA
4
Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul, Turkey
5
Department of Cardiology, Endodontology and Pedodontology, ACTA, University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
6
Faculty of Dentistry, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” Skopje, Vodnjanska 17, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
7
Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey

Correspondence should be addressed to Elif Bahar Tuna; [email protected]

Received 6 March 2017; Accepted 7 March 2017; Published 15 March 2017

Copyright © 2017 Elif Bahar Tuna et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

With contributions, editorial team members in this special tooth tissues but are also now to promote tissue regeneration
issue hold great insight. For this special issue, we received and also prevent healthy tooth tissue.
articles more than we expected from all over the world Comprehension of recent advances in biomaterial of
and ended up with 20 original research articles. With these dentistry would lead to appropriate applications of these bio-
articles, this issue offers comprehensive knowledge on bio- materials in clinical cases and successful strategies to improve
materials which serve a main role in the engineering of dental treatment outcomes to better serve patients [3]. It is
functional tissue replacements, both as supports for cell adhe- important to choose most appropriate material for the regen-
sion, vehicles for cell transplantation, and systems for con- eration of the tooth structure via biomimetic processes. In
trolled drug delivery and also provides studies on the appli- other words, to choose the appropriate dental materials and
cation of the novel biomaterials in dentistry. Authors focused its successful clinical use directly affect treatment outcome
mainly on dental biomaterials especially with respect to their and long term results.
basic biological and chemical properties as well as clinical The biomaterials and technologies are not only replacing
applications. missing or damaged tissues but also promoting the tissue
The development of new biocompatible materials and/or regeneration [4, 5]. There are many areas of research that bio-
existing material composition and progressing techniques materials and dental stem cells were used. They offer potential
is expected to broaden the diversity of applications of for tissue regeneration in dentin, periodontal ligament, dental
biomaterials in dentistry field in upcoming years [1]. The pulp, and even enamel. Also the use of dental stem cells as
progress in materials research including dentin bondings, sources of cells to facilitate repair of nondental tissues such
impression materials, luting cements, glass ionomers, glass as bone and nerves has been introduced [5, 6]. In this issue,
carbomers, composites, and ceramics clearly requires an some researches related to MTA or Biodentine were accepted
improved understanding in multiple disciplines, as well as which have capability to stimulate tertiary dentin forma-
the development of new design methodologies in order to tion. However, as the cellular mechanisms behind successful
obtain better properties in biologic performance and better tertiary dentin formation are largely unknown, few materials
biocompatibility [2]. The objectives of all these biomaterials have been rationally designed to induce regeneration of root-
and technologies not only are to replace missing or damaged like structures. Therefore, the editorial team thinks that these
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published articles can help the studies for explanation of


unravelling cellular mechanisms behind dentin formation
by pulp-derived stem cells, and, by this way, some other
researcher may apply this knowledge to design novel bioma-
terials aimed at stimulating dentin formation by pulp-derived
stem cells.
In this special issue, new topics have described the
pediatric drugs on the color stability of dental materials, in
vitro studies about composites, glass carbomer and calcium
silicate cements, and some biomechanic research about oral
implants. Besides, regarding white spot lesions and their
treatment using with CPP-ACP paste, CAD/CAM systems
and laser applications topics have been discussed with origi-
nal articles.
In conclusion, we are now in the new era of bioma-
terials and biomaterial engineering including regenerative
medicine, and applications are numerous in the modern den-
tistry. Advanced biomaterials inspired by biological systems
and processes are likely to influence the development of novel
technologies for a wide variety of applications. On the basis of
these considerations, new biomaterials and technologies are
playing the key role in the development of modern dentistry,
and their development requires a multidisciplinary-based
high quality researches. Comprehension of recent advances
in biomaterial of dentistry would lead to finding the best
application and the most successful treatment strategies to
improve treatment outcomes of patients. The guest editorial
team hopes that the present special issue provides for this
aim and wish that this exciting topic would encourage other
researchers for their future works.
Elif Bahar Tuna
Yoshiki Oshida
Bugra Ozen
Elizabeta Gjorgievska
Tamer Tuzuner

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