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Chapter title
The Influence of Shockwave Therapy on Orthodontic Tooth Movement Induced in the Rat
Chapter number 179
Book title
Advances in Clinical Science
Published in
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, January 2015
DOI 10.1007/5584_2015_179
Pubmed ID
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-921496-2, 978-3-31-921497-9
Authors

Hagai Hazan-Molina, Itay Aizenbud, Hana Kaufman, Sorin Teich, Dror Aizenbud

Abstract

Shockwave therapy is used in medicine due to its ability to stimulate healing processes. The application of orthodontic force evokes an inflammatory reaction resulting in tooth movement. Shockwave therapy might have an effect on both inflammatory and periodonal ligament cytokine profiles. Our aim was to evaluate the fluctuations of different inflammatory cytokines after orthodontic force induction with and without shockwave therapy. An orthodontic appliance was applied between the rats' molars and incisors. In conjunction with the commencement of orthodontic force, the rats were treated with a single episode of 1000 shock waves and the gingival crevicular fluid was collected for 3 days. The expression and concentration of different cytokines was evaluated by a commercial 4-multiplex fluorescent bead-based immunoassay. The level of all cytokines displayed a similar trend in both shockwave-treated and untreated groups; the concentration peaked on the first day and declined thereafter. In all cases, however, the cytokine levels were smaller in the shockwave-treated than in untreated animals; a significant difference was found for sRANKL and borderline difference for IL-6 on Day 1. We conclude that shockwave therapy during the induction of orthodontic tooth movement influences the expression of inflammatory cytokines.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 30 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Researcher 3 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 10%
Student > Master 3 10%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 10 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 43%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 7%
Psychology 2 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 11 37%