Vital to dentistry

A STUDY OF FREE RADICAL INJURY TO VITAL ORGANS

The study of toxicities which are caused by free radical inducing chemicals (e.g., carbon tetrachloride), helps to determine the mode of action of those important drugs which act by inhibiting free radicals. Evaluation of toxicities induced by carbon tetrachloride and phenobarbitone administration was carried out in seventy healthy male rabbits. Each animal received CCI4 0.25-0.5 mL/kg bod...

Implementing a Smart Method to Eliminate Artifacts of Vital Signals

Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) has vital and significant applications in different medical fields and is used for the primary evaluation of neurological disorders. Hence, having easy access to suitable and useful signal is very important. Artifacts are undesirable confusions which are generally originated from inevitable human activities such as heartbeat, blinking of eyes and facial ...

Nanotechnology: A Boon to Dentistry

Dentistry is frequently facing revolutions in order to provide a most reliable and comfortable therapeutic option for the patients. Recently, nanotechnology has emerged as a new science exploi­ ting specific phenomena and direct manipulation of materials on nanoscale. Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the microscopic scale of a nanometer (10–9 m). Nano...

Pulp reaction to vital bleaching.

This study evaluated the histological changes in dental pulp after nightguard vital bleaching with 10% carbamide peroxide gel. Fifteen patients between 12 and 26 years of age with caries-free first premolars scheduled for orthodontic extraction were treated with 10% Opalescence (Ultradent Products, Inc). Tooth #5 had four days of bleaching, tooth #12 was treated for two weeks, tooth #21 was ble...

Cosmetic dentistry is still dentistry.