title: Bionic dental pulp: its potential value following root canal therapy.
abstract: Dental pulp can provide nutrition for teeth. The teeth after root canal therapy without pulp will turn frailer because of dehydration, and it may be easily broken. Bionic dental pulp possesses similar components of the healthy dental pulp. So we put forward a hypothesis that bionic dental pulp can be filled into root canals to provide nutrition for teeth like healthy pulp. Then the life-span of teeth after root canal therapy could increase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthetics, West China College of Stomatology, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ren Zheng
authors.forename: B M E
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Gongping Li
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hao He
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Yinghe Lin
mesh_terms: D003782:Dental Pulp; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012390:Root Canal Therapy; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins