Author:
Bhandary Meghna,Chhabra Rachaita,Ananya Rao K.,Shahid Mohammed
Abstract
A few decades ago, if one underwent a knee injury that makes walking painful or had an atrophied kidney, then, he/she was condemned to a life hooked on to machines, or on constant medications. However, in today’s era, teeth can be grown in a Petri dish; heart and liver replacements are possible with no risk of rejection because the organs are made of the patient’s own cells. This is the promise of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. The entire idea of regenerative medicine is based on the presence of stem cells in the body or the ability to introduce stem cells into the body without causing harm. These can be obtained from a variety of body and dental tissues. Deciduous teeth often discarded as biological waste is proven to possess Stem cells (SHED) that have promising applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Hence, their contribution toward the field of regenerative medicine and dentistry is immense. This chapter summarizes SHED’s regenerative potentials and therapeutic applications; and also focuses on its potential future scope in regenerative dentistry. Furthermore, procedures involved in SHED-induced therapy, from SHED collection to SHED banking, have also been explained.
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