Yearly Report on Dentistry

Preliminary report on the use of ketamine in pediatric dentistry.

Preliminary results indicate that ketamine 3mg/kg combined with diazepam and atropine may be an excellent premedication/sedation for children who require dental treatment procedures 45-60 minutes in duration. Ketamine HCI, 4 mg/kg appears to be effective for procedures lasting less than 30 minutes. Because of transient apnea, noted in two references, 2"3 only dentists trained in airway manageme...

Imperial College Consortium on Pore - Scale Modelling Yearly progress and final report January 3 rd 2011

Displacement experiments using the porous plate method were conducted on water-wet sandstones to measure the capillary trapping of oil by waterflooding as a function of its saturation after primary drainage. Three sandstone samples ranging in porosity from 12.2% to 22.1% were considered. Experiments on two samples were conducted at an elevated temperature and back-pressure of 343K and 9MPa resp...

Hypersensitivity Reaction to Local Anesthetic in Dentistry: A Case Report

Background and Aim: Local anesthesia plays an important role in dentistry. Although hypersensitivity reactions to local anesthetic drugs are rare,but they are more common in dental cartridge components. This study reports a rare case of hypersensitivity to components of local anesthesia cartridge. Case Report: A 61-year-old female patient referred to The Medical Council to complain the dentist ...

SUBSECTION ON DENTISTRY (Nd).

Minimally invasive dentistry and its impact on esthetic restorative dentistry.

One of the goals of dentistry is to develop new approaches in restorative dentistry that will reduce the amount of tooth removal during treatment. With advances in material science and restorative techniques, we are able to attain these ideals and recreate nature with minimal removal of tooth structure. The latest developments in minimally invasive dentistry (MID) and its impact on esthetic res...