Tissue Engineering in today's dentistry: A Review

Periodontal disease is a major issue in day-to-day public health and due to advances in the development of the effective therapies to treat the disease and regenerate periodontium is an important goal of today's medicine. Recently, tissue engineering is promising, as well as the most advanced approach to reconstruct the periodontal apparatus. Periodontics has an ancient history of utilizing advances in science to expand and to improve periodontal therapies. In the above context, there has been a substantial and growing public and scientific awareness of a relatively new field of applied biological research called tissue engineering and is been increasingly viewed as having enormous clinical potential biology life sciences. Hence, this review provides an insight into the basic principles of tissue engineering and its applications in treating periodontal diseases.