Vol 9, Jan-Jun, Poster 15

Poster journal Biodentistry: Mining the Mouth’s Many MicrobesGitika Sharma1, Gopikrishnan Vijayakumar2, Mala Kamboj3, Anjali Narwal4

1-4

Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.

Commentary: Microorganisms are present in almost all environment, either useful or harmful to the host. Oral microbiome is an important part of the human microbiome, and is unique for its diversity. Oral flora is a continuously changing habitat for numerous species of bacteria. There is an intense interspecies competition to colonize and to form a biofilm structure. The mouth harbors more than 700 different types of micro-organisms. Recent biotechnological and microbiological techniques help to identify the extent, diversity and association of each microbe to the health and disease1.We are now in post-genomic era in which biotechnology; genomics, biomimetic and tissue engineering are the future of all health professions. Biomedical science and technology are the advancing front in the ongoing medical and dental research.Dentistry and Biotechnology now work hand in hand on researches pertaining to the most common microbial disease of the oral cavity, i.e. dental caries to the most dreaded, oral cancer. “Biodentistry”as it would be collectively termed include nanotechnology and nanomaterials, Biotechnology, Nanorobotics, Probiotics and caries vaccines, Tissue engineering, Biomimetic and many recent molecular diagnostic techniques like proteomics, genomics and sequencing methods2,3.By this poster an attempt will be made to elaborate the various contributions of biotechnological innovations in the advancement of dentistry and their applications.

Vol 9, Jan-Jun, Poster 15

References

1. Garg Y, Bhaskar DJ, Agali R, Punia H, Gupta V, Jain A. Biotechnology in dentistry. TMU J.Dent. 2015;2(1):26-30.

2. Kanaparthy R, Kanaparthy A. The changing face of dentistry: nanotechnology. Internationaljournal of nanomedicine. 2011;6:2799.

3. Shetty NJ, Swati P, David K. Nanorobots: Future in dentistry. The Saudi dental journal. 2013Apr 1;25(2):49-52

Vol 9, Jan-Jun, Poster 15

Vol 9, Jan-Jun, Poster 15

Keywords: Biodentistry; Nanodiagnosis; Nanorobotics; Probiotics; Tissue Engineering How to cite this article: Sharma G, Vijayakumar G, Kamboj M, Narwal A.- “BIODENTISTRY”: Mining the Mouth’s Many Microbes , PosterJ 2020; 9(1):15. Source of support: Nil.DOI: 10.15713/ins.dpj.037Conflict of interest: None declared

Corresponding Author:Gitika Sharma ,Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Pt. BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, IndiaEmail id: gitika051@gmail.com