Oral Medicine and Pathology

Oral MediciNe, Oral diagNOsis, Oral PathOlOgy

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Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology Oral Radiology and Endodontics

Objective. This work evaluated sciatic nerve regeneration after cryotherapy. Study design. Rats underwent surgical access of the sciatic nerve and subsequent cryotherapy, crush lesion or no manipulation. Walking-track, electroneuromyographic and histomorphometric analyses were performed at 15, 30 and 70 postoperative days. Results. At 15 days, the crush and cryotherapy groups showed significant...

Scandinavian Fellowship for Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine: statement on oral pathology and oral medicine in the European Dental Curriculum.

BACKGROUND For many years, dentists have migrated between the Scandinavian countries without an intentionally harmonized dental education. The free movement of the workforce in the European Union has clarified that a certain degree of standardization or harmonization of the European higher education acts, including the dental education, is required. As a result of the Bologna process, the Assoc...

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and E ldodontology

Various types of oral appliances (OAs) have been used for over half a century to treat temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), but there has been considerable debate about how OAs should be designed, how they should be used, and what they actually do therapeutically. However, there is enough information in the scientific literature at this time to reach some evidence-based conclusions about these i...

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology. Parting thoughts.