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Childhood and Athletic Beginnings
Tom Selleck was born on January 29, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. From an early age, he was involved in sports, particularly basketball. which played a significant role in his physical development. His athletic pursuits continued into college. where he attended the University of Southern California (USC) on a basketball scholarship. This early involvement in sports laid a strong foundation for his physical health and disciplined lifestyle.
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Selleck's transition from an athlete to an actor came with its physical demands. His first significant role in "Magnum P.I." required him to perform various stunts and maintain a fit appearance. This role, which he played from 1980 to 1988. necessitated a rigorous fitness routine to meet the show's demands. setting the stage for his long-term commitment to health and wellness.
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Tom Selleck health and fitness regimen has evolved. adapting to his changing roles and age. During his "Magnum, P.I." days. Selleck's workouts were intense and focused on building and maintaining muscle mass. His routine included weightlifting, cardiovascular exercises. and specific training for the stunts he performed on the show.
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2. Technically wound healing is a term that should be used only in the context of true
regeneration, when the original architecture and structure of an organ or anatomic part
is completely restored to the way it was before injury.
Regeneration is often used in periodontal literature to describe instances where the
structure and functional relationships of damaged periodontal tissues appear to be
renewed. The most common use of term regeneration describes new attachment or
formation of new cementum, alveolar bone and intervening periodontal ligament.
Repair is the process where in damaged tissues are replaced by tissues that do not
duplicate the function of original tissues.
Definitions
3. • Cellular and humoral factors involved in soft tissue wound healing
• Phases of wound healing
• Soft tissue healing with regard to specific periodontal procedures
Presentation outline
5. Endothelial cells
• endothelial cells of the original blood vessels
• circulating endothelial progenitors
Fibroblasts
• connective tissue in the wound edges
• monocyte-derived fibrocytes
• from vessel-derived pericytes
• possibly also by a process termed epithelialmesenchymal transition
Epithelial cells
• keratinocytes at the wound edges
A proportion of the fibroblasts achieve a phenotype that resembles smooth muscle cells
(myofibroblasts) which can draw the wound edges together and are thus critical
components of wound healing.
Cellular origins
Sculean et al 2014. Soft tissue wound healing around teeth and dental implants. J Clin Periodontol
7. • In wound healing, the extracellular matrix (ECM) comprises four main components:
1. structural proteins (i.e., collagen, elastin)
2. multidomain adhesive glycoproteins (i.e., fibronectin, vitronectin, laminin)
3. matricellular proteins, including secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine
(SPARC), thrombospondin 1 and 2, tenascins, osteopontin
4. glycosaminoglycans (GAG), including hyaluronic acid and proteoglycans, that is,
syndecans, perlecan (such as chondroitin sulfate and heparan sulfate)
Extracellular matrix
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
8. • Three main classes of collagens are present normally in connective tissue:
(1) fibrillar collagens (types I, III and V)
(2) basement membrane collagen (type IV)
(3) other interstitial collagens (types VI, VII, and VIII)
Collagen
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
9. • particularly abundant component of the provisional matrix
• thought to be at least in part responsible for the “scarless” healing of embryonic
wounds.
• Fibroblasts from early granulation tissue produce large amounts of hyaluronic acid,
and proliferating cells express CD44, which is the receptor for this GAG molecule.
• offers less resistance to cell movement and stimulates cell motility by altering cell-
matrix adhesion.
• creates a highly hydrated structure leading to tissue swelling and interstitial spaces,
and thus an environment more conducive to cell movement.
• as remodeling occurs, hyaluronic acid is degraded by hyaluronidase and replaced by
sulfated proteoglycans, which contribute a stronger structural role in late granulation
tissue formation and in scars, while being less able to stimulate cellular movement.
• Two major proteoglycans, chondroitin-4-sulfate and dermatan sulfate, are produced
by mature scar fibroblasts.
Hyaluronic acid
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
10. Cytokine Activity in Wound Healing
Leong et al 2017. Wound healing. Ch6. Sabiston textbook of surgery 12E
Actions of growth factors and cytokines are often context specific and not the same in every biologic situation
11. Growth Factors That Affect Wound Healing
Leong et al 2017. Wound healing. Ch6. Sabiston textbook of surgery 12E
12. Growth Factors That Affect Wound Healing
Leong et al 2017. Wound healing. Ch6. Sabiston textbook of surgery 12E
14. Phases of wound healing
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
15. Interaction of cellular and humoral factors in wound healing.
Leong et al 2017. Wound healing. Ch6. Sabiston textbook of surgery 12E
16. SPM-mediated switching from inflammation to resolution
Freire 2017 Resolution of Inflammation and Periodontal Diseases Carranza Elsevier
Specialized Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediators
17. • Resolution is initiated when innate immune cells (neutrophils and monocytes) are
“told” to clear the injury and restore to homeostasis.
• Resolution mediators are oxidative fatty acids, constituted by a family of lipid
mediators and have agonist cellular functions.
• There are four main families of specialized lipid mediators: lipoxins, resolvins,
protectins, and maresins.
• In addition to lipid mediators, regulatory cytokines and cells also work in a temporally
and spatially coordinated micro-environment to activate resolution signals.
• Among all cellular functions activated by resolution signals, induction of phagocytosis,
clearance of infection, and exit to the lymphatics are the main cellular actions.
• This allows the return to homeostasis and activation of tissue healing.
SPM-mediated switching from inflammation to resolution
Freire 2017 Resolution of Inflammation and Periodontal Diseases Carranza Elsevier
18. Phases of wound healing
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
19. • normal fibroblasts express vimentin and fibroblast-specific protein 1 (FSP1)
• activation of fibroblasts takes place when tissue injury occurs
• injured epithelial cells and infiltrating mononuclear cells such as monocytes and
macrophages release various factors like TGF-ß, EGF, PDGF and FGF2
• fibroblasts are activated by direct cell–cell communication and contacts with
leukocytes through adhesion molecules such as intercellular-adhesion molecule 1
(ICAM1) or vascular-cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM1).
• The activated fibroblasts secrete various mediators which play a key role in
connective tissue remodelling. These include proteases such as MMP2, MMP-3 and
MMP-9. In addition to these, activated fibroblasts secrete various growth factors
such as TGF-ß, IGF, nerve growth factor (NGF) and keratinocyte growth factor (KGF)
which can induce proliferative signals within adjacent epithelial cells.
Fibroblast activation
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
20. Phases of wound healing
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
21. • MMP-1 (collagenase-1 or interstitial collagenase) is important in keratinocyte
migration and epithelialization.
• MMP-9 plays a fundamental role in “cutting” Type IV and type VII collagen, which are
essential components of the basement membrane and anchoring fibrils, and it also
promotes inflammation and neutrophil migration.
• MMP-10 (stromelysin) breaks down other noncollagenous ECM components and
facilitates migration
Proliferation/migration and remodeling phases
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
23. • In the normal tissues, keratinocytes use the integrins α6β4 to bind to laminin in the
basal lamina, and these integrins have intracellular links with the keratin cytoskeletal
network.
• In preparation for migration, the keratinocytes at the edge of the surgical wound have
to dissolve the hemidesmosome attachment and begin to express other integrins that
are more suitable for the wound environment.
• The migrating keratinocytes will start expressing the integrins α5β1 for binding to
fibronectin and αVβ6 for binding to tenascin, the integrin αVβ5 for binding to
vitronectin and, finally, reorganize the distribution of the integrins α2β1 (collagen
receptor).
• This mobilization and expression of new integrins facilitates adhesion of keratinocytes
to matrix molecules in the provisional matrix as well as the adjacent wound debris.
This can explain the lag time between wounding and the initiation of epithelial
migration. It is generally believed that the basal cells provide the majority of
migrating keratinocytes, although there is some evidence that some of the suprabasal
cells may also migrate.
Integrins
Akhil 2000. Biology of wound healing. Perio 2000.
24. Phases of wound healing
Fiztpatrick Dermatology. Chapter 248. Mechanism of Wound repair, healing and dressing.
25. The linear progression seen in acute wounds is not seen in chronic wounds.
Fiztpatrick Dermatology 8th Ed. Chapter 249. Wound repair: Mechanisms and Practical considerations
Acute vs Chronic wounds
26. Mechanisms involved in the development and persistence of chronic wounds
Leong et al 2017. Wound healing. Ch6. Sabiston textbook of surgery 12E
Solid lines indicate
upregulation, and dashed lines
indicate downregulation. Width
of the line is proportional to the
effect of the influence.
H2O2, Hydrogen peroxide;
O2 −, superoxide;
TGF-β, transforming growth
factor-β.
27. • The basic healing processes are the same after all forms of periodontal therapy.
• These processes consist of the removal of degenerated tissue debris and the
replacement of tissues destroyed by disease.
• This implies regeneration and repair of the periodontal structures but not necessarily
a gain in attachment.
Healing After Periodontal Therapy
Carranza 12th Edition
28. • mucoperiosteal flap is opposed to an instrumented root surface deprived of its
periodontal attachment
• Immediately after suturing (up to 24 hours) a connection between the flap and the
tooth (or bone surface) is established by clot formation at the interface between the
tooth and a gingival flap.
• In periodontal defects the debrided defect becomes concealed by the irregular fibrin
clot.
• Clot formation is initiated as blood elements are absorbed to the boundaries of the
wound – namely cementum, dentine, alveolar bone, gingival connective tissue.
• absorption and adhesion of plasma proteins onto the root surface represents the first
healing event at the tooth-gingival interface
• Within hours the early phase of inflammation occurs as inflammatory cells
(predominantly neutrophils and monocytes) accumulate on the root surface.
Wound healing at the tooth interface
Polimeni et al, 2006
29. • establishment of a fibrin clot is the first and essential milestone toward periodontal
wound healing/ regeneration
• One to 3 days after flap surgery, the space between the flap and the tooth/bone
becomes smaller and epithelial cells migrate over the border of the flap, usually
contacting the tooth.
• With close adaptation of the flap there is minimal inflammatory response.
• Within 3 days the late phase of inflammation dominates the healing process as
macrophages migrate into the wound.
• This is followed by the formation of granulation tissue.
• At 7 days, a connective tissue attachment may be observed, however areas of fibrin
clot in various stages of maturation will also still be present.
Wound healing at the tooth interface
Susin et al, 2015
Polimeni et al, 2006
30. • One week after surgery, an epithelial attachment to the root has been established by
means of hemidesmosomes and a basal lamina.
• The blood clot is replaced by granulation tissue derived from the gingival connective
tissue, the bone marrow and the PDL.
• Two weeks after surgery, collagen fibers begin to appear parallel to the tooth surface.
• The union of the flap to the tooth is still weak, because of the immature collagen
fibers
• One month after surgery, a fully epithelialized gingival crevice with a well -defined
epithelial attachment is present.
• The supra-crestal fibers begin to take on a functional arrangement.
Wound healing at the tooth interface
Polimeni et al, 2006
31. • immediately after curettage blood clot fills the gingival sulcus.
• restoration and epithelization of the sulcus generally begins about 2-3 days after
curettage
• completed between 7-10 days after treatment.
Clinical changes of the tissues after curettage
• Marginal gingiva appears red and blood coagulum will be present
• After 2 days the gingiva appears light bluish red.
• After 4 days the gingiva appears red edematous with reduced intensity.
• After 6 days gingival tissue will be light red and edema is markedly reduced.
• After 7 days gingival tissue will be pink with constriction and recession but marginal
gingiva is smooth and glossy.
• After 8 days gingiva remains smooth.
• After 9 days gingiva appears pale pink with surface keratinization.
Healing after curettage
S. J. Froum et al. “Periodontal Healing Following Open Debridement Flap Procedure I: Clinical Assessment of Soft Tissue
and Osseous Repair”. Journal of Periodontology. 1981; 53(1): 8-14
32. • The major events in healing are re epithelization of the wound surface and
restoration of the dento-gingival junction.
• Primary intention healing is seen in gingivectomy and secondary intention in
gingivoplasty.
Gingivectomy and gingivoplasty
S. J. Froum et al. “Periodontal Healing Following Open Debridement Flap Procedure I: Clinical Assessment of Soft Tissue
and Osseous Repair”. Journal of Periodontology. 1981; 53(1): 8-14
33. Imbibition
• diffusion of plasma from the recipient site into the overlying skin graft, resulting in
a weight increase of the graft of up to 40% within the first day
• keeps the graft moist and the graft vessels patent and provides nutrition to the
graft
• imbibition phase ends as the venous and lymphatic drainage is reestablished, with
a concomitant reduction in the weight of the graft
Inosculation
• anastomoses of graft blood vessels with the recipient-derived vessels
Neovascularisation
• ingrowth of new blood vessels from the recipient wound bed into the graft.
Graft healing- vascularisation
34. • Specific in-situ hybridization and immunolabeling were used to distinguish graft from
recipient in studies of human split thickness skin grafted onto nude mice. It was found
that the recipient endothelial cells grew into the preexisting donor capillary tubes,
decisively supporting the process of immediate inosculation.
• Most recently, transgenic mice were used to distinguish donor derived from recipient-
derived vascular growth to reveal an even more precise picture. Capla and colleagues
showed regression of the graft vessels starting at day 3, with simultaneous vessel
ingrowth from the recipient primarily into the graft’s preexisting vascular framework,
resulting in inosculation by day 7
• Presumably, neovascularization without anastomosing with the graft’s vascular
framework is not the predominant event.
• Using a mouse bone marrow transplant model, the same investigative group further
showed that bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells contributed 20% of
the recipient-derived endothelial growth within the graft
Inosculation and neovascularization
Capla JM et al: Skin graft vascularization involves precisely regulated regression and replacement of endothelial cells
through both angiogenesis and vasculogenesis. Plast Reconstr Surg 117 :836- 844, 2006
35. • Immediately after placement of the graft a fibrin clot forms between graft and the
underlying periosteal bed. This medium serves to transport nutrients from the
recipient area to connective tissue of the graft.
• Re epithelization occurs during the last half of the first post operative week with cells
originating from lateral wound margins of epithelial ridges with in the graft itself.
• By 72 hours connective tissue proliferation begins and by the end of the first week a
tenuous fibrous attachment between the graft and the recipient is seen.
• By 14th day the epithelium presents a near normal histologic thickness.
• Healing of a free gingival graft will include reconstruction of the dentogingival
junction coronal to the crest of the retained periosteum.
Free gingival grafts
S. J. Froum et al. “Periodontal Healing Following Open Debridement Flap Procedure I: Clinical Assessment of Soft Tissue
and Osseous Repair”. Journal of Periodontology. 1981; 53(1): 8-14
36. • At 4th day wound surface is red suggesting the formation of granulation tissue.
• At the sixth day post operatively budding and sprouting capillaries are identified in
the granulation tissue at the wound interface.
• The greatest cellular activity is seen at 6th day, which is responsible for the formation
of the new reparative connective tissue.
• Continuity between the periodontal flap and vasculature is established within 9 days.
• Histologically by 21 days revascularisation of the flap is re established.
Lateral pedicle grafts
S. J. Froum et al. “Periodontal Healing Following Open Debridement Flap Procedure I: Clinical Assessment of Soft Tissue
and Osseous Repair”. Journal of Periodontology. 1981; 53(1): 8-14
37. • Within minutes after flap closure, a fibrin clot forms at the flap to bone interface.
• In the first 2 days the inflammation is particularly intense within the haversian canals,
marrow spaces of the bone and the connective tissue of the mucoperiosteal flap.
• At 4 days there is evidence of fibroblast and angioblast proliferation from periosteal
surface of the flap into fibrin clot.
• By 10th postoperative day there will be apposition of new bone on the periosteal,
marrow, and periodontal ligament surfaces of the alveolar bone.
• The new junctional epithelium will be completely formed by the end of second week.
• The healing during the third week features the first histological evidence of new
connective tissue attachment of the flap.
• From 4th week till the end of third month the healing will feature less proliferative
activity while connective tissue maturation and osseous remodeling will become
more dominant elements.
Full thickness mucoperiosteal flap
S. J. Froum et al. “Periodontal Healing Following Open Debridement Flap Procedure I: Clinical Assessment of Soft Tissue
and Osseous Repair”. Journal of Periodontology. 1981; 53(1): 8-14
38. • The flap is fused to the retained periosteum by a fibrin clot for the first 48 hours.
• Epithelial bridging of the wound is complete during the first week of the healing
connective tissue.
• Fibroplasia and angioplasia are prominent features of repair at the end of first
postoperative week.
• During the second week the epithelium is restored to presurgical thickness and
degree of keratinization.
• The junctional epithelium will be reestablished by the end of the second week.
• The osteogenesis, which begin at day 6 produces osteoid in the marrow spaces of the
alveolar bone.
• The restoration of the dentogingival junction and the crest of the alveolar bone will
also be completed with out deformities by the end of third week.
Partial thickness flap
S. J. Froum et al. “Periodontal Healing Following Open Debridement Flap Procedure I: Clinical Assessment of Soft Tissue
and Osseous Repair”. Journal of Periodontology. 1981; 53(1): 8-14
39. • coagulum occupies the implant-mucosa interface
• neutrophils infiltrated the blood clot and at 4 days an initial mucosal seal is
established
• next few days, the area with the leucocytes decreased and was confined to the
coronal portion, whereas fibroblasts and collagen dominated the apical part of the
implant-tissue interface.
• Between 1 and 2 weeks of healing, the peri-implant junctional epithelium is about 0.5
mm apical to the mucosal margin.
• At 2 weeks, the peri-implant junctional epithelium starts to proliferate in the apical
direction.
• After 2 weeks, the periimplant mucosa is rich in cells and blood vessels.
• At 4 weeks of healing, the peri-implant junctional epithelium migrates further apically
and occupies now 40% of the total soft tissue implant interface.
• The soft connective tissue is rich in collagen and fibroblasts and well-organized.
Wound healing at the implant interface
Sculaen et al 2014. Soft tissue wound healing around teeth and dental implants. J Clin Periodontol
40. • The apical migration of the periimplant junctional epithelium was completed
between 6 and 8 weeks and the fibroblasts formed a dense layer over the titanium
surface at that time.
• From 6 to 12 weeks, maturation of the soft connective tissue has occurred and the
peri-implant junctional epithelium occupies about 60% of the entire implant soft
tissue interface.
• Further away from the implant surface, the number of blood vessels is low and
fibroblasts are located between thin collagen fibres running mainly parallel to the
implant surface.
• soft tissue attachment to transmucosal (i.e.non-submerged) implants made of
commercially pure titanium with a polished surface in the neck portion requires at
least 6- 8 weeks
Wound healing at the implant interface
Sculaen et al 2014. Soft tissue wound healing around teeth and dental implants. J Clin Periodontol
41. Following application of EMD
(1) decreased production of IL-1b and IL-8
(2) increased levels of PGE2, little differences in TNF-a expression
(3) substantially changes the OPG/RANKL balance by increasing OPG
and decreasing RANKL levels, resulting in diminished osteoclast
formation/activity
(4) increases the proliferation and migration of T lymphocytes
(5) which enable tissue debridement by macrophages
(6) promotes mesenchymal cell differentiation into hard tissue
forming cells and improves periodontal ligament cell regeneration
(7) microvascular cell differentiation and angiogenesis are improved
(8) lower bacterial numbers resulting in a reduced inflammatory state
EMD, enamel matrix derivative; IL, interleukin;
PGE2, prostaglandin E2; PDGF, platelet-derived growth factor;
PMN, polymorphonuclear neutrophil;
TGF, transforming growth factor; TNF, tumor necrosis factor.
Inflammation-modifying changes induced by enamel matrix derivative
Miron et al 2015. Enamel matrix derivative, inflammation and soft tissue wound healing. J Periodont Res
42. Emdogain is capable of enhancing early wound healing, a number of in vitro findings
further favour the idea that EMD is capable of promoting wound healing and resolution
of inflammation:
1. reduction in the expression/ production of a number of interleukins and possibly
TNF suggests that EMD is able to attenuate the inflammatory phase.
2. increase in the OPG/RANKL ratio may reduce local bone resorption and favor the
resolution of bone loss and formation of new bone.
3. stimulate gingival fibroblast proliferation and extracellular matrix production and
prevent their apoptosis. These effects could enhance the proliferative/maturation
phase of wound healing.
4. increase in expression of VEGF, responsible for new blood vessel formation, which
may contribute to tissue repair by providing faster renewal of blood supply within
the wound.
5. increases the expression and/or release of TGF-b in gingival fibroblasts and PDL cells
Enamel matrix derivative
Miron et al 2015. Enamel matrix derivative, inflammation and soft tissue wound healing. J Periodont Res
43. • Wound healing in the oral cavity is a very complex process.
• Within 7–14 days, epithelial healing of surgical wounds at teeth is completed.
• Soft tissue healing following surgery at implants requires 6–8 weeks for maturation.
• An understanding of soft tissue healing of the periodontal connective tissues is
central to many aspects of periodontology and implantology.
Conclusion