Applications of gene therapy have been evaluated in virtually every oral tissue, and many of these have proved successful at least in animal models. While gene therapy will not be used routinely in the next decade, practitioners of oral medicine should be aware of the potential of this novel type of treatment that doubtless will benefit many patients with oral diseases.
Keywords: gene therapy; mouth; oral diseases.
Published 2013. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.