Student Work

Optimizing a Gum Graft for Periodontal Surgery

Public

Downloadable Content

open in viewer

Periodontitis affects 64.7 million American adults each year. If left untreated,periodontitis leads to gum recession, tooth decay and eventual tooth loss. The current treatment to regenerate gingival tissue is to use a graft. Graft materials either require surgical harvesting or tear easily. The goal of this project was to evaluate Gore BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement as a scaffold material to mimic the cellular and mechanical properties of gum tissue. The results qualitatively showed an increase in cell number and collagen deposition on the scaffold over 14 days although the collagen deposition was minimal. The scaffold material was mechanically stronger than the current benchmark non-autologous graft used in gingival repair, AlloDerm.We concluded that Gore BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement has the potential to be a material used in gingival tissue repair but it presents many limitations that would have to be addressed and further testing would be required.

  • This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.
Creator
Publisher
Identifier
  • E-project-042513-113716
Advisor
Year
  • 2013
Date created
  • 2013-04-25
Resource type
Major
Rights statement
Last modified
  • 2021-02-02

Relations

In Collection:

Items

Items

Permanent link to this page: https://digital.wpi.edu/show/w3763822v