Tissue Engineering in Dentistry

Tissue engineering is a field of a engineering that aims to restore damaged tissues and organs. It is based on to integrate cells on a specific natural or synthetic scaffolds with the specific signals. In this brief review dental tissue engineering has been examined under two headings; (i) strategies and (ii) applications. In the strategies tissue conduction, tissue induction, stem cell transplantation and gene therapy have been described. The various tissues of the oral cavity such as bone, cartilage, dentin, dental pulp, and salivary gland engineering have been reviewed as applications. Skin and cartilage tissues after processing in the laboratory with tissue engineering strategies, have been used in some medical applications. Although the wide variety of tissue engineering applications in various tissues of the oral cavity made revolution in dentistry, more research on the treatment of complex tissue defects are needed.