The replacement of missing teeth with implant borne restorations has become a treatment modality accepted by the scientific community for fully and partially edentulous patients. Recent developments in oral implantology involve the use of immediate implant placement technique that significantly reduces waiting time. This case report describes the management of an anterior missing tooth using im...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chronic infections, including periodontal infections, may predispose to cardiovascular disease. The present study investigates the relationship of periodontal disease and tooth loss with subclinical atherosclerosis. METHODS We enrolled 711 subjects with a mean age of 66+/-9 years and no history of stroke or myocardial infarction in the Oral Infections and Vascular Disea...

We determine the relationship between premature loss of primary teeth and oral hygiene, consumption of soft drinks, dental care and previous caries experience. This study focused on 833 Mexican schoolchildren aged 6-7. We performed an oral examination to determine caries experience and the simplified oral hygiene index. The dependent variable was the prevalence of at least one missing tooth (or...

Background and Purpose—Chronic infections, including periodontal infections, may predispose to cardiovascular disease. The present study investigates the relationship of periodontal disease and tooth loss with subclinical atherosclerosis. Methods—We enrolled 711 subjects with a mean age of 6669 years and no history of stroke or myocardial infarction in the Oral Infections and Vascular Disease E...

Mimicry in the field of science involves reproducing or copying a model, a reference. If we as dentists want to replace what has been lost, we need to agree on what is the correct reference. The accepted frame of reference must be the same for the entire profession, and it should be timeless and unchanging success. Age, disease and traditional restorations can cause further problems to the exis...

Introduction Hypoplasia is defined as a quantitative defect of enamel visually and is histomorphologically identified as an external defect involving the surface of the enamel and associated with reduced thickness of enamel (Ozturk et al, 2004).Turner's hypoplasia usually manifests as a portion of missing or diminished enamel, generally affecting one or more permanent teeth in the oral cavity. ...

Tooth agenesis is the most common dental anomaly. The aim of this retrospective study was to identify common patterns of tooth agenesis in a sample of 92 patients (55 females and 37 males; mean age 27.7 years) with non-syndromic severe hypodontia. The Tooth Agenesis Code (TAC) procedure was used for that purpose. The patients in this study were missing between 6 and 22 permanent teeth (mean 11....

The paired-domain transcription factor PAX9 plays a critical role in tooth development, as heterozygous mutations in PAX9 have been shown to be associated with human tooth agenesis. In this study, we report 2 novel missense mutations, gly6arg (G6R) and ser43lys (S43K), in the paired domain of PAX9 in Chinese patients with varying degrees of nonsyndromic tooth agenesis. Excluding third molars, t...

Background: Tooth and Nail Syndrome (TNS) is a rare genetic disorder and one of the common types of Ectodermal Dysplasias (ED). Fried and Witkop Syndromes are two subtypes with similar clinical and radiological features with a difference in the inheritance pattern. ?just state the genetic difference. The condition is particularly of interest to dentists because of the challenges in prosthetic r...

Poor oral health and tooth loss have been proposed as possible risk factors for some chronic diseases, including gastric cancer. However, a small number of studies have tested these associations. We conducted a case-control study in Golestan Province, Iran, that enrolled 309 cases diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma (118 noncardia, 161 cardia, and 30 mixed-locations) and 613 sex, age, and nei...