Topics in Dental Biochemistry

✍ Scribed by Martin Levine (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the last 20 years, biochemistry and molecular biology have undergone a revolution that has affected our understanding of the oral cavity. Topics in Dental Biochemistry is primarily designed for students of dentistry who need to relate biochemistry and molecular biology to dentally related topics in physiology, nutrition, anatomy, histology, microbiology, and immunology. The book will also be of value for dental professionals, scientists, and practitioners of medicine who are interested in hard and soft tissue structure and disease. It provides the necessary basic scientific background for a clearer understanding of bone, tooth, saliva, and surrounding soft tissue research and also for an appreciation of how dental caries and periodontal disease might be better diagnosed and controlled in the future. Dentistry was developed to treat dental caries, but since the early 20th century it has increasingly been treating periodontal, traumatic and genetic diseases affecting tooth structure and attachment. Fluoridation is discussed at length. Other methods for controlling dental caries and new or suggested methods for controlling oral hygiene and periodontal disease are also discussed.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Necessary Basics: Elements, Isotopes, Ions, Chemical Reactions, Energy Metabolism, and Bacterial Structures....Pages 1-16
Photosynthesis and Sucrose Production....Pages 17-27
The Connective Tissue Extracellular Matrix and Its Major Components....Pages 29-44
Fibrillar and Non-fibrillar Collagens and Integrins....Pages 45-63
Basal Laminas and Epithelia....Pages 65-80
Elastic Fibers and Proteoglycans....Pages 81-99
Collagen Synthesis, Genetic Diseases, and Scurvy....Pages 101-112
The Zincins: Collagen Fiber Processing and Degradation....Pages 113-128
Biological Mineralization....Pages 129-151
Bone Remodeling and Calcium Metabolism....Pages 153-173
Blood Coagulation....Pages 175-201
Saliva....Pages 203-230
Chronic Periodontitis....Pages 231-258
Aggressive Periodontitis....Pages 259-266
Dental Caries....Pages 267-283
Fluoride....Pages 285-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-307

✦ Subjects

Dentistry; Medical Biochemistry