A dramatic increase in the number of people living in their seventies, eighties and nineties is associated with a loss of teeth and the use of mobile dentures. The aim of this paper was to highlight the consequences of poor denture hygiene on oral and general health in vulnerable elderly people, in long-term hospitalized elderly patients and in long-term institutionalized elderly in nursing hom...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate bone loss around implants placed in patients with a history of treated chronic periodontitis and who did or did not attend supportive periodontal therapy, after one year in function. Furthermore, the influence of periodontal biotype and level of plaque was also evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-nine patients participated voluntarily in the study. All subjects had a h...

Dental plaque critically affects the etiology of caries, periodontitis and periimplantitis. Themechanical removal of plaque can only be performed Susanne Gorynia Ina Koban partially due to limited accessibility. Therefore, plaque still represents Rutger Matthes one of themajor therapeutic challenges. Even though antiseptic mouth Alexander Welk rinses reduce the extent of biofilm temporarily, pl...

Dental plaque critically affects the etiology of caries, periodontitis and periimplantitis. The mechanical removal of plaque can only be performed partially due to limited accessibility. Therefore, plaque still represents one of the major therapeutic challenges. Even though antiseptic mouth rinses reduce the extent of biofilm temporarily, plaque removal remains incomplete and continuous usage c...

The severe intrusion of dental implants in everyday clinical practice tends to replace conservative therapeutic approaches of maintaining teeth with dubious prognosis. Furcation-involved (FI) molars pose a great dilemma to the clinician, as in most cases their treatment requires significant effort using surgical interventions as well. Prognosis for multi-rooted is usually worse than single-root...

Recently, growing attention has been paid to antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) in dentistry. Changing the microbial composition of initial and mature oral biofilm by aPDT using visible light plus water-filtered infrared-A wavelengths (VIS + wIRA) has not yet been investigated. Moreover, most aPDT studies have been conducted on planktonic bacterial cultures. Therefore, in the present cli...

Background: Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand (RANKL) is one of the key cytokines in the induction of osteoclastogenesis both in vitro and in vivo.Several reports indicated the presence of sRANKL in gingival crevicular fluid of patients with periodontal diseases. Objective: To determine the presence of RANKL in peri-implant crevicular fluid samples of implants with peri-implan...

Bacterial adhesion and the subsequent biofilm formation on dental implants is a persistent problem that can cause implant failure. Once biofilm is formed, bacterial cells become highly resistant to antibiotics and host defences (Costerton et al., 1999, Patel, 2005), and clinical experience has shown that biofilms must be removed physically before the infection can be resolved (Costerton, 2005)....

background: receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa b ligand (rankl) is one of the key cytokines in the induction of osteoclastogenesis both in vitro and in vivo.several reports indicated the presence of srankl in gingival crevicular fluid of patients with periodontal diseases. objective: to determine the presence of rankl in peri-implant crevicular fluid samples of implants with peri-implan...

From 1928 and until 1959 dental education and research in Norway were carried out in the dental school, Tannlegehøyskolen, in Oslo only. By inviting young scientists in the beginning of their career, focus was directed against the future rather than the past. When the dental school became part of the University, more emphasis was put on science. Organised programs were established for scientist...