Concepts of Periodontal Regeneration & Regenerative Medicine

Mena Soory is a clinical academic in Periodontology. Activities encompass teaching the specialty in a clinical and academic setting, including curriculum planning and development of undergraduate courses, examination at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. The main areas of clinical and research interest are in the fields of Relevance of redox status in periodontitis and associated systemic diseases; mechanisms involved, Disease mechanisms linking periodontitis and prevalent systemic diseases, Nutritional antioxidants and their significance in periodontal and systemic diseases and Periodontal regenerative methods, materials and mechanisms applicable to regenerative medicine. Mena Soory has acted as principal supervisor of over a dozen theses. These activities have generated nearly 200 peer reviewed publications, congress presentations, books and book chapters; including a themed journal supplement as guest editor. She is actively engaged in 5 editorial boards of international journals; and in the activities of the British Society of Peridontology, European Federation of Periodontology, International Academy of Periodontology, British Society for Oral and Dental Research, International Association for Dental Research and the Endocrine Society.

Preface; Introduction; Strategies for Periodontal Regeneration; Biomarkers of Cell Differentiation & Growth Promoting Agents; Periosteal Cell Sheets & Tissue Matrix; Functions of Hydrogels in Tissue Regeneration; Regenerative Medicine, Cell Signalling & Gene Delivery; Biomechanics of Stem Cells & Their Applications; Smart Biomaterials & Scaffolds; The Role of Micro RNAs in Tissue Engineering; 3-D Printing of Tissue Regenerative Materials & Their Applications; Index.