Periodontal Ligament and Alveolar Bone in Health and Adaptation: Tooth Movement.

Periodontal Ligament and Alveolar Bone in Health and Adaptation: Tooth Movement.
Front Oral Biol. 2015;18:1-8
Authors: Jiang N, Guo W, Chen M, Zheng Y, Zhou J, Kim SG, Embree MC, Songhee Song K, Marao HF, Mao JJ
Abstract
The periodontal ligament (PDL) and alveolar bone are two critical tissues for understanding orthodontic tooth movement. The current literature is replete with descriptive studies of multiple cell types and their matrices in the PDL and alveolar bone, but is deficient with how stem/progenitor cells differentiate into PDL and alveolar bone cells. Can one type of orthodontic force with a specific magnitude and frequency activate osteoblasts, whereas another force type activates osteoclasts? This chapter will discuss the biology of not only mature cells and their matrices in the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone, but also stem/progenitor cells that differentiate into fibroblasts, osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Key advances in tooth movement rely on further understanding of osteoblast and fibroblast differentiation from mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells, and osteoclastogenesis from the hematopoietic/monocyte lineage.
PMID: 26599112 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Frontiers of Oral Biology - November 26, 2015 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Front Oral Biol Source Type: research