Although not a life-threatening condition, chronic bruxism often impairs the quality of life of affected individuals. In advanced stages, the condition might be accompanied by tooth sensitivity, abrasion, fractures, mobility, or loss, dental caries, alveolar bone loss, headaches, earaches and adverse cumulative, irreversible effect on dental implants and aesthetic restorations. Diminished facia...

Sealants have become an important vehicle for preventing pit and fissure caries. 1 Dentists have increased their use of sealants, 2-4 yet the percentage of children who receive this service is still rather small. 5, 6 This study explores the charges for dental sealants and onesurface, permanent posterior restorations for each state over a three-year period. This information will be useful for c...

The aim of the present study was to investigate risk factors for dental caries in children with developmental disabilities who were treated at a clinical reference service for patients with special needs in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. This is a retrospective cohort study that evaluated 401 dental charts of individuals without dental caries or restorations in their first dental appointment. The ...

BACKGROUND Mercury amalgam dental restorations have been used by dentists since the mid 19th century and issues on safety continue to be periodically debated within the scientific and public health communities. Previous studies have reported a positive association between urine mercury levels and the number of dental amalgams, but this relation has never been described in a nationally represent...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the didactic and clinical undergraduate implant dentistry program of the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany, with emphasis on the clinical implant experience. MATERIALS AND METHODS A detailed description of the implant curriculum at Albert-Ludwigs University is given with documented exemplary cases and additional flow charts. RESULTS A...

THE primary purpose of the masticatory process is to apply forces to the nutritional substances which are taken into the mouth, thereby causing a reduction in their size. The mechanism for this action includes the medium of tooth structure which not only applies these forces directly to the food masses, but is itself subject to the effects of these forces. In general, the effects of forces appl...

T he effects of self-induced starvation and chronic vomiting can cause significant and often irreversible changes of the dentition and oral cavity, besides the complex medical and psychiatric symptoms. A dental emergency may be the patient's first confrontation of damage and deleterious sequelae caused by the eating disorder. The dental complications can cause crumbling teeth, loss of restorati...

Oral lichen planus (OLP) and oral lichenoid contact lesions (OLCL) are chronic inflammatory mucocutaneous reactions with a risk of malignant transformation that alter the epithelium. OLP and OLCL have similar clinical and histopathological features and it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. Metallic restorations are suspected to generate OLCLs. Trace metal analysis of OLCL specimens...

Amalgam was banned as a dental restorative material in Norway in 2008 due to environmental considerations. An electronic questionnaire was sent to all dentists in the member register of the Norwegian Dental Association (NTF) one year later, to evaluate dentists' satisfaction with alternative restorative materials and to explore dentists' treatment choices of fractured amalgam restorations. Repl...