大气压低温等离子体在口腔医学中应用进展

Application of atmospheric-pressure low-temperature plasma in stomatology: a review

等离子体医学是一门结合物理、化学、生命科学以及临床医学等相关学科的一门综合性的交叉学科,其在医学领域中具有非常广泛的应用前景。近年来,等离子体在口腔医学领域中的应用越来越广泛。本文首先阐述了等离子体用于杀毒和灭菌等方面的研究,另外等离子体还可以对口腔中常用的材料通过接枝或引入新的化学官能团,在不破坏材料本身结构和形态的前提下进行表面改性,而且在使用的过程中对口腔组织没有损伤作用。正是由于等离子体具有这些独特的性能,使其在口腔医学领域中的研究不断扩大,现已将其应用在材料改性、美学修复、抗菌、抗炎症、成骨、抗肿瘤等多方面的研究中。未来随着对等离子不断深入以及细致的研究,等离子体有望成为口腔临床医学中一种常规的辅助治疗手段。

Plasma medicine,as an interdisciplinary subject which combines physics,chemistry,life science and clinical medicine,has great application prospects in biomedicine.In recent years,plasma medicine has attracted lots of attention in stomatology,and the application of plasma in stomatology is becoming wider.Herein the application of plasma in disinfection and sterilization is firstly reviewed.By grafting or introducing new chemical functional groups,the surface of the common-used dental materials is modified by plasma,without destroying the structure and morphology of the materials,and the use of plasma causes no damage to the oral tissues.These unique properties of plasma make the researches on plasma in oral medicine more extensive.Plasma has been applied in different medical research fields,such as material modification,aesthetic restoration,disinfection and sterilization,anti-inflammatory,osteogenic and anti-tumor researches.In the future,with the in-depth and meticulous researches,plasma is expected to become a conventional and complementary treatment in clinical stomatology.