Pediatric Salivary Gland Disease
8 Pediatric Salivary Gland Disease RICHARD J. SCHMIDT, STEVEN P. COOK AND JAMES S. REILLY The spectrum of diseases of salivary gland origin in children is both different and perhaps…
Facial Paralysis Rehabilitation
16 Facial Paralysis Rehabilitation ARA A. CHALIAN AND SARAH H. KAGAN Patients with facial paralysis suffer significant functional, aesthetic, and psychosocial sequelae. Even single branch weakness or paralysis may leave…
Classic Approaches to Sialoendoscopy for Treatment of Sialolithiasis
7 Classic Approaches to Sialoendoscopy for Treatment of Sialolithiasis ODED NAHLIELI Obstructive sialadenitis, with or without sialolithiasis, represents the main inflammatory disorder of the major salivary glands. The diagnosis and…
Sialadenitis
5 Sialadenitis KELLY M. MALLOY, DAVID ROSEN AND MARC R. ROSEN Sialadenitis refers to the various inflammatory conditions affecting the salivary glands. It has been recognized as a disease entity…
Imaging of the Salivary Glands
2 Imaging of the Salivary Glands LAURIE A. LOEVNER AND MADHAVI L. BATTINENI The imaging algorithm for assessing the salivary glands depends on the clinical scenario with which the patient…
Salivary Gland Anatomy
1 Salivary Gland Anatomy MICHAEL B. RHO AND DANIEL G. DESCHLER The salivary gland system of the upper aerodigestive tract plays a critical role in the functions of digestion, respiration,…
Histology, Epithelial Metaplasias, and Noninflammatory and Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands
4 Histology, Epithelial Metaplasias, and Noninïammatory and Non-neoplastic Lesions of the Salivary Glands MARY F. CUNNANE AND GREGORY J. ARTZ Like exocrine glands generally, the salivary glands are composed of…
Advances in Radiation Therapy for Salivary Gland Neoplasms
13 Advances in Radiation Therapy for Salivary Gland Neoplasms ADAM RABEN Several chapters on the management of major and minor salivary gland cancers have been written over the last decade,…
Histology and Pathology of Sialolithiasis
6 Histology and Pathology of Sialolithiasis JOHN D. HARRISON The background to our present understanding of sialolithiasis starts in 1896, when Küttner1 published his observations on two patients who had…
Treatment of Salivary Lymphoma and Advanced Nonlymphoid Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasms
12 Treatment of Salivary Lymphoma and Advanced Nonlymphoid Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasms CHARLES J. SCHNEIDER The majority of lymphomas involving head and neck sites are secondary “nodal” lymphomas, which most…
Metastasis to Major Salivary Glands.
11 Metastasis to Major Salivary Glands PAUL SABINI AND ROBERT L. WITT Skin Cancer and the Salivary Glands Despite its prevalence, nonmelanoma skin cancer often manages to surprise both patients…
Medicolegal Perspectives in Salivary Gland Diseases.
17 Medicolegal Perspectives in Salivary Gland Diseases SHERRY C. MCREYNOLDS AND AXEL KOCH This chapter will address and compare how medical malpractice is proved in the United States and Germany,…
Embryology, Physiology, and Biochemistry of the Salivary Glands
3 Embryology, Physiology, and Biochemistry of the Salivary Glands KENNETH R. NISSIM, ROBERT L. WITT AND JONATHAN A. SHIP Embryology Salivary glands are present in amphibians upward. Parotid glands are…
Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Radiation-induced Xerostomia
14 Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Radiation-induced Xerostomia CHRISTOPHER A. SULLIVAN Xerostomia is a permanent and devastating sequela of head and neck radiation that affects ~40,000 patients annually in the…
for Dental-Related Stem Cells Isolation, Amplification and Differentiation
Fig.1 (a) developing tooth in a bud stage, (b) developing tooth in a cap stage, (c) developing tooth in a bell stage During the cap stage (Fig. 1b) (at about…
Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration
Source In vitro multipotency In vivo ectopic tissue formation DPSCs [7] Pulp adult teeth Osteogenic, dentinogenic, adipogenic, chondrogenic, neurogenic, myogenic, cardiomyogenic, hepatocyte-like cell, melanocyte Dentin-pulp-like complex Bone-like tissues Adipose…
Pulp Stem Cells and Hydrogel in Pulp Regeneration
Type of hydrogel Promising features Experimental approach Result References Peptide-Amphiphile (PA) • Self-assemble into 3D networks • Easy to handle • Can be introduced into small defects • Cell adhesion sequence RGD and an…
Surface and Stem Cells for Implants
Fig. 1 A cluster of titanium dioxide nano-tubes [2] Nanotechnology therefore, involves materials that have a nano-sized topography or are composed of nano-sized materials ranging between 1 and 100 nm…
Stem Cells for Pulp Regeneration
Fig. 1 Developmental potential of DPSC transplanted with HA/TCP carrier in vivo . (a) After 6 weeks, DPSC generated a dental pulp-like tissue within the HA/TCP carrier (c) with the…
Stem Cells (DSCs): Classification and Properties
Fig. 1 Embryonic origin of the different tooth components. (Reproduced from www.bronxdentalspa.com/root-canal-bronx.htm) Dentin comprises the main portion of the tooth. It is a mineralized connective tissue secreted by the odontoblasts,…
