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Nanotechnology in Dental Sciences: Moving towards a Finer Way of Doing Dentistry

Nanotechnologies are predicted to revolutionize: (a) the control over materials properties at ultrafine scales; and (b) the sensitivity of tools and devices applied in various scientific and technological fields. In this short review, we argue that dentistry will be no exception to this trend. Here,...

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Autores principales: Uskoković, Vuk, Bertassoni, Luiz Eduardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4836616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27103959
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma3031674
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description Nanotechnologies are predicted to revolutionize: (a) the control over materials properties at ultrafine scales; and (b) the sensitivity of tools and devices applied in various scientific and technological fields. In this short review, we argue that dentistry will be no exception to this trend. Here, we present a dynamic view of dental tissues, an adoption of which may lead to finer, more effective and minimally invasive reparation approaches. By doing so, we aim at providing insights into some of the breakthroughs relevant to understanding the genesis of dental tissues at the nanostructural level or generating dental materials with nanoscale critical boundaries. The lineage of the progress of dental science, including the projected path along the presumed nanotechnological direction of research and clinical application is mentioned too. We conclude by claiming that dentistry should follow the trend of probing matter at nanoscale that currently dominates both materials and biological sciences in order to improve on the research strategies and clinical techniques that have traditionally rested on mechanistic assumptions.
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spelling pubmed-48366162016-04-19 Nanotechnology in Dental Sciences: Moving towards a Finer Way of Doing Dentistry Uskoković, Vuk Bertassoni, Luiz Eduardo Materials (Basel) Review Nanotechnologies are predicted to revolutionize: (a) the control over materials properties at ultrafine scales; and (b) the sensitivity of tools and devices applied in various scientific and technological fields. In this short review, we argue that dentistry will be no exception to this trend. Here, we present a dynamic view of dental tissues, an adoption of which may lead to finer, more effective and minimally invasive reparation approaches. By doing so, we aim at providing insights into some of the breakthroughs relevant to understanding the genesis of dental tissues at the nanostructural level or generating dental materials with nanoscale critical boundaries. The lineage of the progress of dental science, including the projected path along the presumed nanotechnological direction of research and clinical application is mentioned too. We conclude by claiming that dentistry should follow the trend of probing matter at nanoscale that currently dominates both materials and biological sciences in order to improve on the research strategies and clinical techniques that have traditionally rested on mechanistic assumptions. Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2010-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4836616/ /pubmed/27103959 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma3031674 Text en © 2010 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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