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Should deciduous teeth be preserved in adult patients? How about stem cells? Is it reasonable to preserve them?

Overview of attention for article published in Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics, January 2016
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Title
Should deciduous teeth be preserved in adult patients? How about stem cells? Is it reasonable to preserve them?
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Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics, January 2016
DOI 10.1590/2177-6709.21.2.015-027.oin
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Authors

Alberto Consolaro

Abstract

When seeking orthodontic treatment, many adolescents and adult patients present with deciduous teeth. Naturally, deciduous teeth will inevitably undergo exfoliation at the expected time or at a later time. Apoptosis is the biological trigger of root resorption. In adult patients, deciduous teeth should not be preserved, as they promote: infraocclusion, traumatic occlusion, occlusal trauma, diastemata and size as well as morphology discrepancy malocclusion. Orthodontic movement speeds root resorption up, and so do restoring or recontouring deciduous teeth in order to establish esthetics and function. Deciduous teeth cells are dying as a result of apoptosis, and their regeneration potential, which allows them to act as stem cells, is limited. On the contrary, adult teeth cells have a greater proliferative potential. All kinds of stem cell therapies are laboratory investigative non authorized trials.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 63 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 22%
Student > Postgraduate 9 14%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Researcher 4 6%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 15 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 60%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 20 32%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2022.
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#3,710,309
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics
#27
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#60,639
of 399,679 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics
#4
of 10 outputs
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