Biotech and biomaterials research to reduce the caries epidemic.
Biotech and biomaterials research to reduce the caries epidemic.
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DOI：
10.1186/1472-6831-6-s1-s1
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发表时间：
2006-06-15
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Milgrom P
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作者：
Slayton RL;Bryers JD;Milgrom P
本次研讨会的目标是在生物材料/生物工程界就研究议程达成共识，重点是创造解决当前龋齿流行病的技术。该研讨会将汇集来自学术界，工业界和NIH研究所在口腔生物膜微生物学和创新生物材料领域的专业知识。举办讲习班的理由是，科学和技术还没有为公共卫生从业人员和私营提供系统提供足够的实用工具，以解决低收入家庭的儿童和成年人以及众多少数民族和种族群体中存在的龋齿流行病。此外，目前还不清楚这些障碍是可以补救的生物工程和技术问题，还是基础科学问题。然而，解决科学研究与实际应用之间的差距的义务在今天尤其重要。美国和州政府通过医疗补助、公共卫生服务、印第安人卫生服务和其他类似项目承担了试图控制这一流行病的大部分费用。这些费用继续增加，因为继续应用现有技术不大可能显著减少差距。龋齿预防的支柱，局部和全身氟化物和窝沟封闭剂，是20世纪50年代和60年代开发的技术。
The goal of this workshop is to develop a consensus within the biomaterials/bioengineering community for a research agenda focused on creating technologies that will address the current dental caries pandemic. The workshop will bring together expertise from academia, industry, and the NIH institutes in the areas of oral biofilm microbiology and innovative biomaterials. The rationale for the workshop is that science and technology have not produced sufficient practical tools for public health practitioners and the private delivery system to address the pandemic in dental caries that exists for children and adults from families with low incomes and for numerous ethnic minority and racial groups. Moreover, it is unclear whether the barriers are remediable bioengineering and technical problems or fundamental science questions. Nevertheless, the obligation to address the gap between scientific research and practical application is especially relevant today. The U.S. and state governments bear the majority of the cost of trying to control this pandemic through Medicaid, the Public Health Service, Indian Health Service and other similar programs. These costs continue to escalate as continued applications of existing technology are unlikely to markedly reduce disparities. The mainstays of caries prevention, topical and systemic fluorides and pit and fissure sealants, are technologies developed in the 1950s and 1960s.