Ectopically positioned tooth piercing the philtrum

Tongue piercing and associated tooth fracture.

The case presented is designed to draw attention to the increasingly common occurrence of tooth fracture as a result of trauma incurred from a barbell inserted during tongue piercing. Oral piercing is on the rise. Of concern to health personnel are the associated risks, which include damage to dentition, infection, speech impediment and nerve damage. Also of concern is the belief that in some c...

Stainless steel double loop appliance to correct ectopically positioned maxillary permanent first molar

Ectopic eruption is the abnormal eruption of a permanent tooth that often causes root resorption of an adjacent primary tooth which can be noted during routine dental radiographic evaluation. The mesial eruption of the permanent first molar may be a local eruption problem or may indicate developmental arch circumference deficiency requiring further consideration. Early treatment is mandatory to...

Delayed eruption of maxillary permanent first and second molars due to an ectopically positioned maxillary third molar.

Bounding the Piercing Number

It is shown that for every k and every p ≥ q ≥ d + 1 there is a c = c(k, p, q, d) < ∞ such that the following holds. For every family H whose members are unions of at most k compact, convex sets in R in which any set of p members of the family contains a subset of cardinality q with a nonempty intersection there is a set of at most c points in R that intersects each member of H. It is also show...

Elements of morphology: standard terminology for the nose and philtrum.

An international group of clinicians working in the field of dysmorphology has initiated the standardization of terms used to describe human morphology. The goals are to standardize these terms and reach consensus regarding their definitions. In this way, we will increase the utility of descriptions of the human phenotype and facilitate reliable comparisons of findings among patients. Discussio...