OBJECTIVES Developmental anomalies of the dentition are not infrequently observed by the dental practitioner. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of dental anomalies in the Indian population. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study of 4133 panoramic radiographs of patients, who attended the Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital ...

The present work deals with a mechanistic model of visbreaking (VB) process. It allows satisfactory predictions of feed and products, amounts and properties overcoming the typical limitations of the empirical models (for instance, in terms of flexibility, extrapolability and so on). The mechanistic VB modeling was initially performed by taking into account just two macro-classes of pseudo-compo...

This in vitro study evaluated the physical-chemical characteristics of whitening toothpastes and their effect on bovine enamel after application of a bleaching agent (16% carbamide peroxide). Physical-chemical analysis was made considering mass loss by desiccation, ash content and pH of the toothpastes. Thirty bovine dental enamel fragments were prepared for roughness measurements. The samples ...

Developmental dental anomalies refer to deviation from the normal size, shape, number or structure of external and internal anatomy of a tooth. Their presence have functional and clinical significance. With no definite reason some dental anomalies may occur commonly in some specific teeth like microdontia in maxillary lateral incisors, dens invaginatus in maxillary lateral incisors, dens evagin...

the aim of this case report was to describe the clinical management of an unusual dens invaginatus type 3. a case of dens invaginatus in a maxillary lateral incisor with a periapical lesion is reported. the patient presented with pain and localized swelling. despite the complex anatomy and diagnosis of dens invaginatus, non-surgical root canal treatment was performed successfully. key learning ...