The success of oral surgery is subject to accurate advanced planning. In order to properly plan for dental surgery or a suitable implant placement, it is necessary an accurate segmentation of the jaw tissues: the teeth, the cortical bone, the trabecular core and over all, the inferior alveolar nerve. This manuscript presents a new automatic method that is based on fuzzy connectedness object ext...

UNLABELLED Dental lesions represent about 1% of oral cavity tumors being ameloblastoma the most common one. It is a tumor of epithelial origin that mainly affects the jaw, and less commonly the maxilla. Its clinical presentation is that of an asymptomatic slow-growing tumor. Despite being a benign tumor, it has an invasive behavior with a high rate of recurrence if not treated properly. OBJEC...

The regulation by muscle spindles of jaw-closing muscle activity during mastication was evaluated in anesthetized rabbits. Simultaneous records were made of the discharges of muscle spindle units in the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus, masseter and digastric muscle activity (electromyogram [EMG]), and jaw-movement parameters during cortically induced rhythmic jaw movements. One of three test s...

AIM The aim of our study is to describe the rare location of metastasis cancers (kidney and prostate) in the jaw bones (maxillary branch and the condyle); this is the first and the only sign of disease. MATERIAL OF STUDY Two patients referred to us for a swelling in his left preauricolar region with a moderate pain. They underwent a radiologic and bioptic examinations that showed a metastasis...

Background: Gingival recession is a condition where the root surface of tooth exposed due to migration gingival margin and junctional epithelium in an apical direction. The problem that patients often complain about aesthetic problem, especially if occurs upper anterior teeth. In addition, can also cause dentine hypersensitivity exposure was previously covered by gingiva. One treatment options ...