The aim of the study was to study the physiological changes of teeth according to the Gustafson’s criteria and to estimate the age according to these physiological changes. The study was carried out in the department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery Jaipur Dental College Jaipur. Cases received for extraction. The armamentarium used in this study is Electric lathe, Carborundum stone (rough and ...

BACKGROUND Age determination has great importance in many clinical decisions, being commonly used in odontopediatrics, orthodontics, pediatrics, and forensic medicine. The Nolla and Demirjian et al. methods have been used for these purposes. However, estimating chronological age by means of the dental mineralization stage is not a straightforward analysis, and it is fundamental to test the vali...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Dental caries is an infectious and transmissible disease. The interplay between pregnancy and oral health is obvious, but the risk factors are not known yet. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between some selected risk factors in pregnancy and the dental status. METHODS: The study sample consisted of 377 pregnant women attended for their routine a...

o bjectives: correct determination of working length is an important step for suc- cess of endodontic therapy. conventional radiography has limitations in providing the accurate location of apical foramen. for this reason, electronic apex locators (eals) were developed to shorten the treatment time and decrease the radiation dose. the aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of root zx ea...

The purpose of this study was to obtain percentile curves for present teeth in smokers and non-smokers for use in oral health education. Dental examinations were carried out by two dentists. The number of present teeth in each subject was counted, excluding the third molars. Subjects consisted of 2,283 men aged between 25 and 54 years enrolled in the health insurance union of a bank in Yokohama...

This study was conducted on 48 impacted and 51 erupted maxillary permanent canine teeth extracted from healthy patients aged 13-73 years. Longitudinal buccolingual ground sections were prepared. The distance between the edges of cementum and enamel in each specimen was measured with an eyepiece micrometer. A correlation test was applied between age and the distance between enamel and cementum m...

Previous reports have suggested delayed dental development in Down's syndrome (mongolism), but without quantification and without exclusion of subjects with cretinism, with a normal chromosomal complement, or with translocations and mosaics of various sorts. Accordingly, the tooth formation of 25 subjects with Down's syndrome, verified as trisomy G by karyotyping and excluding subjects with cre...

Background: Age can be estimated from the teeth by various methods like eruption of which is known tobe a good indicator age person.Aims & Objectives: The current study aimed to estimate chronological physiological changes(Modified Gustafson’s method) occurring in and also find out effect diet, other habits andsocio demographic factors on changes teeth.Materials Method: Present was done usi...

Background and Aim: Full extraction is often accompanied by adverse functional and esthetic effects. Postponing tooth loss is the ultimate goal of dental care. Thus, knowledge about the reasons of tooth loss and the mean age of patients can help in de-signing preventive programs. The aim of this study was to evaluate the causes of full mouth extraction of teeth and the mean age of patients. Ma...

Aim. To compare the periapical status of endodontically treated teeth between Austrian and Croatian adult patients and determine its relation to age, sex, position of teeth, and length of root canal filling. Methods. The study was conducted from 2007 to 2009 at two university dental clinics and included 163 Croatian (412 teeth) and 101 Austrian (430 teeth) patients. We assessed the periapical s...