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2000
Volume 24, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1566-5232
  • E-ISSN: 1875-5631

Abstract

Biobank involves collecting, processing, storing, and organizing biosamples, along with relevant personal and health information such as medical history, family records, genetics data, and lifestyle details, for medical research and clinical care. Oral biobanking is a recently evolved field alongside the rising of precision medicine due to recent research findings in oral oncology and other oral complaints, namely caries and periodontal disease. The common samples in oral biobanks are matured and primary teeth, dental pulp cells, oral biopsies, oral rinses, saliva, and swabs from the buccal region. Moreover, biobank should not conceive of as a static collection of samples and data but as a dynamic resource for developing novel techniques that meet current scientific demands through international networking. However, the major bottlenecks associated with oral biobanks are privacy, processing of samples, normalization of data, extended durability of interest markers of banked samples, and financial sustainability of biobanks. Thus in this correspondence, we argue that an alternative approach is urgently needed to protect the interests of many stakeholders.

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2024-02-01
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