Mouth Breathing and Atypical Swallowing in Adult Orthodontic Patients at Egas Moniz Dental Clinic: A Pilot Study

Cerebral angiography and Egas Moniz.

In the early 1920s, Egas Moniz, professor of neurology in Lisbon, Portugal, undertook a task no one really considered possible: the radiographic imaging of the brain in a living human subject. At the time, the only approach to visualizing cerebral abnormalities was Dandy’s method of introducing air into the ventricular system. But what a crude method it was. What agony the patient had to endure...

Nasal resistance, skeletal classification, and mouth breathing in orthodontic patients.

Gottlieb Burckhardt and Egas Moniz--two beginnings of psychosurgery.

This article compares the repercussions of the two attempts at psychosurgery, the first in 1888 by the Swiss psychiatrist Gottlieb Burckhardt and the second by the Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz. Both widely publicised their procedure, yet, Burckhardt was condemned and no one ventured to repeat his operation, whereas Moniz's leucotomy was accepted and it soon entered mainstream psychiatry. T...

Self-perceived oral health and its determinants among adult dental patients in a University Dental ‎Clinic in Tehran, Iran‎

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Self-perceived oral health is a simple, non-invasive, and inexpensive method of data collection, which considers the psychosocial aspects of oral health and is related to the likelihood of seeking oral health care. Our study aimed to assess the association between self-perceived and clinically determined findings of oral health in a context of socio-economic status (SES) and...

[Orthognathic and orthodontic consequences of mouth breathing].

There is a large controversy about the causal relations between dento-facial deformities and mouth-breathing habits. Some postural and morphological changes during long-term adaptation to oral respiration are evoked: opening of the bite with a lowered postural position of the mandible, reduction of upper arch width, downward and backward rotation of the mandible, increased lower facial height a...