Nanotechnology in the field of Oral Medicine and Diagnosis

Biomedical science and technology are fields at the forefront of medical and dental research. These are the areas attracting public attention and research funding and have delivered outcomes beginning to contribute greatly to our understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human diseases. Nanotechnology is one such current area of research that has promised an easy as well as an early and efficient understanding of the pathophysiology of human diseases at the earliest as well as aiding in their treatment and improving their prognostic outcomes. This is a rapidly growing area with a significant impact on the practice of medicine as well as dentistry including genetic medicine, another emerging area of nanotechnology, based on genomics. Genomics aims at understanding the function of the human body and the processes occurring in disease at the most fundamental levels and a hope of the manipulation of these disease causative genes at the grassroot levels.