The routine use of dental services by elderly participants in a representative survey of Brazilians (the SB Brazil Project) was investigated. 2,305 were dentate and 2,704 edentulous. Prevalence of use was 20% and 17%, respectively. Poisson regression showed that for dentate individuals, use was lower among residents who: lived in rural areas; had not received preventive oral health information;...

Casts with a high surface hardness and abrasion resistance are essential for conventional dental prosthesis construction procedures. The water/powder ratio is critical factor determining the physical chemical properties of gypsum casts, any modification to this may alter these properties.

An original experimental procedure is presented to measure the mechanical interaction between tongue and teeth and palate during speech production. It consists in using edentulous people as subjects and to insert pressure sensors in the structure of a replication of their dental prosthesis. This is assumed to induce no speech production perturbation for subjects who are used to speak with their...

DIANA DIACONU1, MONICA TATARCIUC1,*, ANCA VITALARIU1*, OVIDIU STAMATIN1, LILIANA FOIA2, LAURA ELISABETA CHECHERITA3* 1Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Department of Removable Prosthesis, Oral Implantology and Dental Technology, 16 Universitatii Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 2 Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Department of Surgical Science, 16 Univ...

This pilot study aimed to assess the patient profile of the Removable Dental Prostheses clinics at the University of Sydney Faculty of Dentistry over four consecutive years. Additionally, patient satisfaction and prosthesis-use one year after construction and identify predictors of patient satisfaction were examined. Data across three domains (patient demographics, oral health status, and prost...

PURPOSE To compare and combine dual-energy based and iterative metal artefact reduction on hip prosthesis and dental implants in CT. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 46 patients (women:50%,mean age:63±15years) with dental implants or hip prostheses (n = 30/20) were included and examined with a second-generation Dual Source Scanner. 120kV equivalent mixed-images were derived from reconstruction...