List of Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements x 1 Cells and Organs of the Immune System 1 Anwarul Azim Akhand and Nazmul Ahsan 2 Oral Immune System 13 Maha Abdullah and Norhafizah Mohtarrudin 3 Mechanisms of Immune Responses 26 Mohammad Tariqur Rahman 4 Immune Responses in Wound Healing of Oral Tissues 39 Firdaus Hariri and Reezal Ishak 5 Stem Cell Immunology 48 Sabri Musa and Ngui Romano 6 Trace Elements in Oral Immunology 61 Wan Izlina Wan-Ibrahim, Zamri Radzi and Noor Azlin Yahya 7 Oral Microbiome and Oral Cancer 79 Manosha Perera, Irosha Perera and W.M. Tilakaratne 8 Oral Microbiome and Periodontitis 100 Rathna Devi Vaithilingam and Chia Wei Cheah 9 Periodontitis and Systemic Diseases 114 Rathna Devi Vaithilingam and Nor Adinar Baharuddin 10 Immunology of Tooth Movement and Root Resorption in Orthodontics 134 Wan Nurazreena Wan Hassan and Rachel J. Waddington 11 Sex Hormone Modulation in Periodontal Inflammation and Healing 156 Aruni Tilakaratne 12 Dental Alloy- associated Innate Immune Response 165 Dessy Rachmawati and Cornelis J. Kleverlaan 13 Inflammation and Immune Response in Arthrogenous Temporomandibular Disorders 187 Siew Wui Chan and Wei Seong Toh 14 Prospects of Passive Immunotherapy to Treat Pulpal Inflammation 202 Shelly Arora, Srinivas Sulugodu Ramachandra, Paul R. Cooper and Haizal M. Hussaini 15 Techniques in Immunology 215 Mohammad Tariqur Rahman and Muhammad Manjurul Karim 16 Control Selection and Statistical Analyses in Immunological Research 239 Mohammad Tariqur Rahman and Noor Lide Abu Kassim Index 252.