Summary Objective To assess three rapid maxillary expansion (RME) appliances in nasal ventilation. Trial design Three-arm parallel randomized clinical trial. Methods Sixty-six growing subjects (10–16 years old) needing RME as part of their orthodontic treatment were randomly allocated (1:1:1 ratio) to groups 22 patients receiving Hyrax (H), Hybrid-Hyrax (HH), or Keles keyless expander (K). The ...

The aims of this study are to find out the significance of adenoid nasopharyngeal ratio obtained from lateral X-Ray of nasopharynx to decide on the option of surgical treatment of adenoid and to correlate the symptoms with the relative size of adenoid in the nasopharynx. This prospective study was done on 100 children who presented with bilateral nasal obstruction from 412years of age. Radiolog...

OBJECTIVES The aim of study was to determine the presence of some of the herpesviruses including herpes simplex virus (HSV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and cytomegalovirus (CMV) in adenoid tissues of children with adenoid hypertrophy (AH) and chronic adenoiditis (CA) and to investigate the potential role of the herpesviruses in patogenesis of AH and CA. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 72 patie...

Background: The adenoids are part of Waldeyer’s ring lymphoid tissue and when hypertrophied they cause many symptoms, e.g., snoring. They hypertrophy physiologically in children between the ages 6 10 years, then atrophy by age 16 years.
 Objectives: aim this study was to reveal risk factors clinical patterns associated with adenoid patients aged over 12 Methods: We studied 130 who had unde...

chlamydia pneumoniae is a common respiratory pathogen which is often found in our paediatric populations. many patients with community-acquired pneumonia caused by c. pneumoniae have symptoms suggestive of sinusitis.the role of c. pneumonia in rhinosinusiits children (meanage =4.3 ±2.5year). this case control study was done in the pediatric and ent clinics of hazrat rasul hospital in tehran (20...