List of Contributors viiPreface ixAcknowledgements x1 Cells and Organs of the Immune System 1Anwarul Azim Akhand and Nazmul Ahsan2 Oral Immune System 13Maha Abdullah and Norhafizah Mohtarrudin3 Mechanisms of Immune Responses 26Mohammad Tariqur Rahman4 Immune Responses in Wound Healing of Oral Tissues 39Firdaus Hariri and Reezal Ishak5 Stem Cell Immunology 48Sabri Musa and Ngui Romano6 Trace Elements in Oral Immunology 61Wan Izlina Wan-Ibrahim, Zamri Radzi and Noor Azlin Yahya7 Oral Microbiome and Oral Cancer 79Manosha Perera, Irosha Perera and W.M. Tilakaratne8 Oral Microbiome and Periodontitis 100Rathna Devi Vaithilingam and Chia Wei Cheah9 Periodontitis and Systemic Diseases 114Rathna Devi Vaithilingam and Nor Adinar Baharuddin10 Immunology of Tooth Movement and Root Resorption in Orthodontics 134Wan Nurazreena Wan Hassan and Rachel J. Waddington11 Sex Hormone Modulation in Periodontal Inflammation and Healing 156Aruni Tilakaratne12 Dental Alloy- associated Innate Immune Response 165Dessy Rachmawati and Cornelis J. Kleverlaan13 Inflammation and Immune Response in Arthrogenous Temporomandibular Disorders 187Siew Wui Chan and Wei Seong Toh14 Prospects of Passive Immunotherapy to Treat Pulpal Inflammation 202Shelly Arora, Srinivas Sulugodu Ramachandra, Paul R. Cooper and Haizal M. Hussaini15 Techniques in Immunology 215Mohammad Tariqur Rahman and Muhammad Manjurul Karim16 Control Selection and Statistical Analyses in Immunological Research 239Mohammad Tariqur Rahman and Noor Lide Abu KassimIndex 252
The EditorsMohammad Tariqur Rahman, PhD, is Professor and Associate Dean (Continuing Education) in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was also the founding President of the Malaysian Society of Oral Microbiology and Oral Immunology.Wim Teughels, PhD, is Professor of Periodontology and Oral Microbiology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.Richard J. Lamont, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Louisville in the USA.