Understanding Scarring in the Oral Mucosa

Significance: Skin inevitably heals with the formation of a fibrotic scar. Patients affected by skin scarring suffer from long-term psychological and physical burdens. Recent Advances: Since the discovery of fetal scarless skin-wound healing, research has hoped to identify and mimic scarless healing for adult skin. Oral mucosa healing in adults provides the closest example to fetal scarless healing. Injuries to the oral mucosa heal with very minimal scarring. Understanding the mechanisms through which this process occurs may bring us closer to achieving scarless healing in adults. Critical Issues: In this review, we summarize the current evidence that illustrates distinct mechanisms involved in oral mucosal healing. We discuss the role of the oral niche in contributing to wound repair. The intrinsic properties of immune cells, fibroblasts, and keratinocytes within the oral mucosa that support regenerative repair are provided. We highlight the contribution of cytokines, growth factors, and chemokine secretion in permitting a scarless mucosal environment. Furthermore, we discuss the role of stem cell-like progenitor populations in the mucosa that may contribute to wound healing. We also provide suggestions for future studies that are needed to achieve scarless healing in adults. Future Directions: Many characteristics of the oral mucosa have been shown to contribute to decreased scarring, but the specific mechanism(s) is unclear. Advancing our understanding of oral healing may yield therapeutic therapies that can be used to overcome dermal scarring.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Advances in wound care - 11(2022), 10 vom: 02. Okt., Seite 537-547

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Griffin, Michelle F [VerfasserIn]
Fahy, Evan J [VerfasserIn]
King, Megan [VerfasserIn]
Guardino, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Kellen [VerfasserIn]
Abbas, Darren B [VerfasserIn]
Lavin, Christopher V [VerfasserIn]
Diaz Deleon, Nestor M [VerfasserIn]
Lorenz, H Peter [VerfasserIn]
Longaker, Michael T [VerfasserIn]
Wan, Derrick C [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Dermal fibroblast
Dermal fibrosis
Journal Article
Oral mucosa
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Review
Scarless healing
Wound healing

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 19.07.2022

Date Revised 11.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1089/wound.2021.0038

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330130617