UPCOMING EVENTS
The New York Dental Project hosts two formal, education-based events each year as well as an annual social event for members, sponsors, and supporters. Tentative dates for our upcoming events are listed below. These dates will be confirmed shortly, but please mark your calendars.
Updated: NYDP Fall Meeting
Thursday November 13th, 2008
Featuring a lecture by Dr. Robert Carpenter, DMD
Recent exciting new discoveries place dentists at the forefront of helping their patients benefit from potentially life-saving therapies derived from a patient’s own stem cells obtained from deciduous teeth and permanent teeth as well from other accessible tissue harvested from the oral cavity. We now stand at the threshold of a potential revolution in medical treatment for diseases and disorders in which organs stop working properly.
At present, some such conditions, such as heart, kidney and liver disease, can be treated by transplantation of a replacement organ from another person. But demand for donor organs is far outstripping supply, and the failure rate of such surgery is quite high, mainly because of the problem of rejection. Many other disorders, such as stroke, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, cannot presently be treated by transplantation. The great hope is that suitable stem cells, produced in large quantities through cell culture methods and injected into failing tissues and organs, will produce fresh, replacement cells to take over from lost or damaged ones.
Stem cells will be used in dentistry for the regeneration of dentin and/or dental pulp, biologically viable scaffolds will be used for the replacement of teeth, periodontal ligaments orofacial bone and cartilage, and defective salivary glands will be partially or completely regenerated.
