fa Applications of Nanotechnology in Dentistry: A Review پریودنتولوژی Periodontology پژوهشي Research <p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"><strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px">Objective: </i></strong>Maintaining the health of oral tissues is a major goal in dentistry. However, limitations in dental materials, instruments, procedures and medications prevent achievement of this goal. Advances in nanotechnology have paved the way to approach this goal. This study reviews the advances on nanotechnology in dentistry.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"> <strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"> Review of Literatures: </i></strong>In this review study, Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, Medline and Cochrane databases were searched for relevant English and Farsi papers from 1981 to 2013. The searched key words were: “nano-characterization”, “antimicrobial agent”, “nano-dentistry”, “nanotechnology”, “nanoparticles”, and “nano-medicine”.</p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 250)"> <strong style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"><i style="margin: 0px padding: 0px border: 0px"> Conclusion: </i></strong>Studies indicated extensive applications of nanotechnology in various fields of dentistry such as prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Use of nanoparticles as antimicrobial agents in conjunction with other oral hygiene tools such as toothpastes may prevent many oral and dental conditions. Also, application of nanostructures enables faster and easier detection of oral cancers and assessment of the saliva for presence of viruses, proteins or specific markers. Last but not least, nano-capsules, nano-coatings and nano-antibiotics enable more efficient treatments.</p><hr><p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl"><span lang="FA" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif"><!--stripped--> <!--stripped--></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><b>Source: </b>Journal of Dental School Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><a href="http://jds.sbmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_id=1347&sid=1&slc_lang=en" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Full Text</font></a></p> Nano-characterization, Antimicrobial agent, Nano-dentistry, Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles, Nano-medicine., 0 0 http://idai.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-32-2936&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Surena Vahabi ivsure1@gmail.com 100319475328460013656 100319475328460013656 Yes Dept. of Periodontics, Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Fatemeh Mardanifar 100319475328460013657 100319475328460013657 No Dental School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran