Dentist sees flaws in tooth transplants
by MARSHA BANGER T
Nebraskan Staff Writer
If a patient wants a tooth
transplant today, he must have
a tooth that's ready and able
within his own mouth.
Teeth have been transplanted
within one individual in the
past, but the first successful
individual-to -individual
transplant is yet to come,
Francis Monsour, DDS, a
visiting professor from
Australia in oral surgery,
said. .
Because of the differing
genetic make-up of all in
dividuals (with the exception of
identical twins), the patient's
moulh rejects a tooth from
another person as a "fcreign
body."
Monsour continued that
either masking or ma'ching up
the tooth's genetic properties
can counteract the rejection
process, but neither has been
successfully accomplished.
Current research at Harvard
University seeks to mask the
tooth's genetic properties
through a coating or a treating
process, Monsour said. But
these processes result in the
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loss of the tooth's vitality or
ability to live.
This loss of vitality is in
desirable to Monsour who hai
successfully transplanted te"th
within an individual. Ha said
that a vital or living tooth can
grow and function almost
normally.
Monsour added, "If the vital
character of the tooth can be
maintained, I feel that the
transplanted tooth will be more
readily accepted in its new
site."
The transplant is presently
used to upright teeth or move
them bodily from one position
to another. The oral surgeon
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moved from an impacted site
to the front of the mouth
primarily to improve the ap
pearance of the patient.
The transplant does not in
volve any "real danger," ac
cording to Monsour. Even a
tooth which Is rejected falls out
by Itself or Is pushed out by the
tissue In the mouth.
Despite this lack of danger,
the transplant is a "last
rerort," Monsour said.
Pecau?e of this, he asserted
that hr oral surgeon too often
rrust compromise conditions
becruse of time. He added that
crmpromising cuts the chance
of success.
"To be a success, the
transplant has got to be plann
ed so conditions are optimal. It
is necessary to establish a good
prognosis to assure the patient
of success," Monsour said.
Optimal conditions include a
tooth at the right development
stage, a well-prepared receiv
ing site and selection of a tooth
with the greatest vitality.
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THE NEBRASKAN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1970