Departmental Papers (Dental)

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

1-2010

Publication Source

Oral Diseases

Volume

16

Issue

1

Start Page

20

Last Page

28

DOI

10.1111/j.1601-0825.2009.01593.x

Abstract

Objective

Periodontal disease is an inflammatory disorder with widespread morbidities involving both oral and systemic health. The primary goal of periodontal treatment is the regeneration of the lost or diseased periodontium. In this study, we retrospectively examined feasibility and safety of reconstructing the periodontal intrabony defects with autologous periodontal ligament progenitor (PDLP) implantation in three patients.

Materials and Methods

In this retrospective pilot study, we treated 16 teeth with at least one deep intrabony defect of probing depth (PD) ≥ 6 mm with PDLP transplantation and evaluated clinical outcome measures in terms of probing depth, gingival recession and attachment gain for a duration of 32–72 months. Furthermore, we compare PDLPs with standard PDL stem cells (PDLSCs) and confirmed that PDLPs possessed progenitor characters.

Results

Clinical examination indicated that transplantation of PDLPs may provide therapeutic benefit for the periodontal defects. All treated patients showed no adverse effects during the entire course of follow up. We also found that PDLPs were analogous to PDLSCs in terms of high proliferation, expression of mesenchymal surface molecules, multipotent differentiation, and in vivo tissue regain. However, PDLPs failed to express scleraxis, a marker of tendon, as seen in PDLSCs.

Conclusions

This study demonstrated clinical and experimental evidences supporting a potential efficacy and safety of utilizing autologous PDL cells in the treatment of human periodontitis.

Copyright/Permission Statement

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [Feng, F., Akiyama, K., Liu, Y., Yamaza, T., Wang, T., Chen, J., . . . Shi, S. (2010). Utility of PDL progenitors for in vivo tissue regeneration: A report of 3 cases. Oral Diseases, 16(1), 20. doi:10.1111/j.1601-0825.2009.01593.x], which has been published in final form at [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-0825.2009.01593.x]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Comments

At the time of publication, author Songtao Shi was affiliated with the University of Southern California. Currently,he is a faculty member at the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Keywords

periodontal ligament progenitors, regeneration, periodontitis

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Date Posted: 01 March 2022

This document has been peer reviewed.