The purpose of the study was to investigate an association between maternal and/or fetal complications during pregnancy and/or delivery and the occurrence of baby bottle tooth decay (BBTD) in the infant. The study population comprised 50 mothers of infants with BBTD (BBTD+ mothers): 50 mothers of aged-matched children with similar eating and bottle-use habits but without BBTD (BBTD-) served as ...

The obesity and overweight affects together, an estimated one-sixth of the world population. At first, the treatment is behavioral and clinical, however, these treatments become difficult due to low patient compliance across the long time needed to obtain more meaningful results. Bariatric surgery then emerged as a plausible and successful option for optimizing weight loss in severely whose obe...

Figure. Cut a slit in a tennis ball and insert the handle (A), or buy a toothbrush with a large handle, then insert the toothbrush handle into a hand grip made for a bicycle (B). Courtesy of National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health (Dental care everyday: a caregiver’s guide. Available at: http://www. nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/Topics/DevelopmentalDisab...

1. Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, QB3 Room 404, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA 2. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, QB3 Room 404, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA 3. Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road MS 2-400, B...

INTRODUCTION Twice-daily caregiver-supervised toothbrushing with fluoridated toothpaste is an effective and widely recommended strategy to prevent tooth decay in children. Qualitative research suggests that low-income caregivers know the recommendation but would benefit from toothbrushing supplies and advice about how to introduce this health behavior especially as the child becomes older and a...

Aims: bacteria are one of the main factors involved in the process of tooth decay.  They play an important role in the onset and progression of tooth decay and are the main cause of pulp and periapical diseases. Their presence in the crown pulp and dental canal causes symptoms in the teeth; therefore, the aim of this study was to molecular study of anaerobic bacteria in primary and necrotic tee...

Background and Objective: Studies have shown that the presence of standard amount of fluoride in drinking water can prevent tooth decay. Meanwhile, higher concentration than permitted amount in drinking water causes bone disease and dental fluorosis. Given the importance of fluoride in drinking water and also GIS ability in spatial analysis of various factors in the groundwater, in this study t...

Plaque control during the course of orthodontic treatment is not an easy task, and dental caries are not an unlikely complication. We examined the possibility of controlling dental caries with Nd-YAG laser irradiation in orthodontic patients. As a preliminary experiment, we used the Nd-YAG laser to irradiate an extracted tooth and then left it to soak in lactic acid. The decay of the tooth was ...

Tooth decay, at its earliest stages, manifests itself as small, white, subsurface lesions in the enamel. Current methods for detection in the dental clinic are visual and tactile investigations, and bite-wing X-ray radiographs. These techniques suffer from poor sensitivity and specificity at the earliest (and reversible) stages of the disease due to the small size (<100μm) of the lesion. A fine...