Xerostomia refers to a subjective sensation of dry mouth. A variety of factors can cause xerostomia including radiotherapy (RT) given for the treatment of oral carcinoma. Depending on the cause, treatment is provided to a patient suffering from xerostomia. In severe xerostomia salivary substitutes can be used and if the xerostomic patient is edentulous, then reservoir space for artificial saliv...

Internal wire fixation applied as a result of the fragmental fractures which occurred in mandible after gunshot injury can cause aesthetic, phonetic, functional and critical psychological problems in the patient. Several challenges are witnessed in the prosthetic rehabilitation of these patients such as retention and stability. The cost of implant applications which can support prosthesis of pa...

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the process of fabrication of specially designed MCOP and define their function in improving of stability. Purpose: In many clinical situations, exposed dentin surfaces of abutment teeth were restored with metal copings prior to fabrication of the overdentures. The aim of this study was to examine a procedure for fabrication of specially designed metal...

Fabrication of a complete denture for the post-surgical intraoral carcinoma patient can be difficult because of the severe limitation in the oral opening. The neutral zone concept can be used for such cases. The purpose of this case report is to describe a modified neutral zone impression technique designed to obtain maxillary and mandibular impressions in one stage in preparation for construct...

The purpose of this pilot investigation was to measure the co-efficient of friction of a cast cobaltchromium alloy specimen and three materials commonly found on the guiding surfaces of the teeth. The static .co-efficients of friction between dental cobalt-chromium alloy (before and after electropolishing) and tooth enamel, composite resin, and dental amalgam alloy were measured using an inclin...

Microstomia may result from surgical treatment of orofacial neoplasms, cleft lips, maxillofacial trauma, burns, radiotherapy, or scleroderma. A maximal oral opening that is smaller than the size of a complete denture can make prosthetic treatment challenging. This clinical paper presents the prosthodontic management of a total edentulous patient with microstomia. Sectional mandibular and maxill...

Introduction: Over-dentures are the most commonly used treatment for elderly patients who still have two or more teeth in their arch. When using coping attachment over remaining part of tooth, root preserves alveolar ridge, provides sensory sense, and improves stability retention denture when compared to conventional complete dentures. This report presents a case rehabilitation partially edentu...

Fabricating an esthetically pleasing removable partial denture while avoiding the unsightly display associated with conventional clasp assemblies presented a challenge to dentists. Among other techniques, this could be done using acetal resin clasps as simple and effective means of improving removable partial denture esthetics.1 Patients often cite lack of retention and poor esthetics as reason...

An important aspect to Precision Forestry (PFOR) is implementing operational monitoring of forest chain logistics. PFOR can be considered as the application of information technology (IT) to the forest sector. Its introduction has the aim to improve the efficiency and the performances of the forest sector, including all the related monitoring activities to satisfy management tasks. So PFOR has ...

This clinical report describes prosthetic rehabilitation of posterior open bite relationship in a patient with several missing teeth and skeletal Class III malocclusion. Primary diagnostic esthetic evaluations were performed by mounting casts in centric relation and estimating lost vertical dimension of occlusion. Exclusive treatments were designated by applying overlay removable partial dentur...