title: How Far Have We Come in the Field of Nerve Regeneration After Trigeminal Nerve Injury?
abstract: Patients suffering from nerve injury with sensory disturbances or orofacial pain have greatly reduced quality of life, and it is a big cost for the society. Abnormal sensations caused by trigeminal nerve injury often become chronic, severely debilitating, and extremely difficult to treat. In general, non-invasive treatment such as drug treatment has been insufficient, and there are currently few available effective treatments. Surgical interventions such as end-to-end connection or nerve grafting have disadvantages such as donor site morbidity or formation of neuroma. There is need for optimizing the technique for nerve repair, especially for the trigeminal nerve system, which has so far not yet been well explored. Recently, tissue engineering using biodegradable synthetic material and cell-based therapies represents a promising approach to nerve repair and it has been reported that mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) has an anti-inflammatory effect and seems to play an important role in nerve healing and regeneration.
authors.affiliation: Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Bergen, Årstadveien 19, 5020 Bergen, Norway ; Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Årstadveien 19, 5020 Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Annika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosén
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Södra Älvsborg Hospital, 501 82 Borås, Sweden.
authors.forename: Arezo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tardast
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Årstadveien 19, 5020 Bergen, Norway ; Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Tie-Jun
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Shi
keywords: Adipose derived stem cells; Hyperalgesia; Hypoasthesia; Inferior alveolar nerve; Infraorbital nerve; Lingual nerve; Mesenchymal stem cells; Nerve regeneration; Orofacial sensory disturbances; Sensory neurons; Stem cells therapy; Trigeminal nerve