Title
Swarming Magnetic Photoactive Microrobots for Dental Implant Biofilm Eradication
Date Issued
28 June 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Titanium dental implants are a multibillion dollar market in the United States alone. The growth of a bacterial biofilm on a dental implant can cause gingivitis, implant loss, and expensive subsequent care. Herein, we demonstrate the efficient eradication of dental biofilm on titanium dental implants via swarming magnetic microrobots based on ferromagnetic (Fe3O4) and photoactive (BiVO4) materials through polyethylenimine micelles. The ferromagnetic component serves as a propulsion force using a transversal rotating magnetic field while BiVO4is the photoactive generator of reactive oxygen species to eradicate the biofilm colonies. Such photoactive magnetically powered, precisely navigated microrobots are able to destroy biofilm colonies on titanium implants, demonstrating their use in precision medicine.
Start page
8694
End page
8703
Volume
16
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Odontología, Cirugía oral, Medicina oral
Radiología, Medicina nuclear, Imágenes médicas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85130063784
Source
ACS Nano
ISSN of the container
19360851
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the project “Advanced Functional Nanorobots” (reg. no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444 financed by the EFRR), the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (NU21-08-00407), and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic) grant LL2002 under ERC CZ program. We thank MIS (MIS Implants Technologies Ltd., Israel) for donating dental implants. We did not receive any other support from MIS.
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