Pregnant Tooth

A Pregnant Woman with Pneumomediastinum after Tooth Treatment

Dear Editor, A 35‐year‐old pregnant woman experienced right inferior molar pain and underwent dental treatment (including drill and laser treatment) under local anesthesia using lidocaine at 30 weeks of gestation. After this treatment, she felt face and neck swelling with dyspnea. She was transferred to our department by ambulance due to the suspicion of an anaphylactic reaction. Her medical an...

Frequency and Risk Indicators of Tooth Decay among Pregnant Women in France: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

INTRODUCTION Little is known on the prevalence of tooth decay among pregnant women. Better knowledge of tooth decay risk indicators during pregnancy could help to develop follow-up protocols for women at risk, along with better prevention strategies. The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of tooth decay and the number of decayed teeth per woman in a large sample of pregnant women in ...

Does wisdom tooth provide tooth germs for tooth regeneration?

Introduction Regenerating a tooth completely in human oral cavity is not achieved by current studies yet. Here, we have conceived a man-induced method to construct a teeth germ which might be used to regenerate a tooth in vivo. This idea was generated by traits of the development of the compound odontoma, a benign tumour of tooth malformation. This is a kind of developmental tooth malformation,...

Whole Tooth Regeneration Using a Bioengineered Tooth

Paleobiology: A Tooth for a Tooth

Many vertebrates replace teeth through shedding of the functional tooth. New analyses of a fossil fish demonstrate that shedding involved tooth resorption, a primitive feature in bony fishes, but absent in sharks and their relatives.