Papers by Author: Amit Kumar Dinda

Abstract: All over the world a large number of people suffer from tooth diseases like dental caries, tooth abscess, and plaques. Tooth loss or damage, which occurs frequently in our society are generally repaired by applying several conventional methods, such as root-canal treatment, direct pulp capping and dental implants. These methods are quite painful, create damage to the surrounding tooth tissues and also may at times have adverse side-effects. The limitations of the conventional methods can be overcome by applying the concept of tooth tissue engineering. Tooth tissue engineering is the application of biosciences and engineering to regenerate a biofunctional tooth, which can be used to replace the missing tooth or repair the damaged tooth. Tissue engineering involves three key elements - cell, scaffold and growth factors, which interact with each other to regenerate a specific tissue. The success of tissue engineering depends on the proper selection of these three key elements and understanding the interactions among them. To bring us close to the realization of a tissue-engineered tooth, immense progress is going on in understanding how tooth is first developed, and there is a good advancement in tooth regeneration. In this review, “tooth tissue engineering” will be discussed, along with the recent advancements and challenges in bring a biofunctional tooth from laboratory out into clinical use.

Abstract: Each year 10.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer and it is the third most common disease in world. Early diagnosis of cancer and cure are major challenges. Recent advances in development of novel biomaterials as well as rapid progress in the area of nano-biotechnology has potentials to change all the current modalities of cancer diagnosis and management. The unique physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials are extremely helpful for detection of biomarkers of the disease, molecular imaging as well as specific targeted therapy sparing the normal organs. Nanoparticle (NP) has large surface area which can be conjugated or coated with different molecular probes for diverse detection system (optical, electrical, magnetic etc.) as well as used as a vehicle to carry different biomolecules and anticancer drugs to tumor cells. Semiconductor quantum dot (QD) with novel optical and electronic properties helped to devise a new class of NP probes for molecular, cellular, and in vivo imaging. A large variety of materials ranging from metal, ceramic, polymer, lipid, protein and nucleic acid are used for developing novel nanoparticles with multiple functions which can detect different aspects of cancer biology and progression. The major issue of concern is biocompatibility and safety of these materials and their fate after in-vivo use. However with collaborative interdisciplinary research it will be possible to develop safer nanomaterials in future