The mouth is a gateway to the body: gene therapy in 21st-century dental practice.

B. J. Baum, J. C. Atkinson, L. Baccaglini, M. E. Berkman, J. S. Brahim, C. Davis, H. E. Lancaster, Y. Marmary, A. C. O'Connell, B. C. O'Connell, S. Wang, Y. Xu, H. Yamagishi, P. C. Fox

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Abstract

Gene therapy may become an integral tool in dental practice early in the 21st century. It and other biological therapies are expected to be applied to oral diseases and disorders during the midpractice lifetime of today's dental students. If the applications of oral gene transfer are expanded to systemic diseases, oral health care providers in the future could routinely be "gene therapists" with therapeutic targets well outside the oral cavity.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)455-460
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of the California Dental Association
Volume26
Issue number6
StatePublished - Jun 1998
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Dentistry(all)

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