title: The mouth is a gateway to the body: gene therapy in 21st-century dental practice.
abstract: Gene therapy may become an integral tool in dental practice early in the 21st century. It and other biological therapies are expected to be applied to oral diseases and disorders during the midpractice lifetime of today's dental students. If the applications of oral gene transfer are expanded to systemic diseases, oral health care providers in the future could routinely be "gene therapists" with therapeutic targets well outside the oral cavity.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Baum
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Baccaglini
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Berkman
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Brahim
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Lancaster
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Marmary
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamagishi
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002180:Candidiasis, Oral / Q000628:therapy; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000639:trends; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D015316:Genetic Therapy; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006801:Humans; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D012469:Salivary Glands / Q000378:metabolism; D012471:Salivary Proteins and Peptides / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D012471:Salivary Proteins and Peptides