The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relation between self-assessed dental status, oral behavior, dental anxiety, and DMF scores. The study was conducted among young army personnel (eighteen to twenty-one years old) who arrived at a single military dental clinic for dental screening. A questionnaire was used to collect the data anonymously. The questionnaire included self-assessment of...

BACKGROUND VELscope™ is a device designed to help detect potentially malignant disorders of the oral mucosa at an early stage using direct tissue autofluorescence. Previous research indicates a high rate of false positives using this device. This study assesses a decision making protocol for the detection of oral mucosal lesions using conventional oral examination and VELscope™ in a general den...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common risk factor for patients with periodontal disease. Periodontitis poor glycaemic control present severe and advanced tissue destruction. A multidisciplinary approach between the periodontist medical practitioner clinically proven to maintain patient's health general well-being. This case report aims raise awareness provide basic guideline dental practitioners i...

Vishal Kabre1, Keerthilatha M Pai2, Komal Smriti3, Sakshi Kamra3 1Private Practitioner, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal University, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal University, Karnataka, India, 3Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine and...

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UNLABELLED Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic vasculitis with symptoms that could cause a patient to present to a general dental practitioner. A case of GCA that presented as headache, jaw claudication, unilateral visual loss and tongue ulceration leading to necrosis is reported and the literature reviewed, with an emphasis on dentally relevant aspects. It is vital that GCA is not overloo...

Dentists are self-selected for visual and kinesthetic learning preferences. Watching another practitioner perform treatment can be incredibly didactic, both before and after learning the procedure. This missing part of dental education has the capacity to play a tremendous role in dental education for all levels of practitioner. Dental students in their clinical years begin to realize the meani...

Aspirin is the most commonly used preventive and therapeutic agent for vascular ischemic events[1]. Moreover, aspirin is indicated in other conditions such as inflammatory joint diseases [2]. Dental extraction is a very common procedure done under local anesthesia where the diseased, redundant or problematic tooth is removed. The prevalence of teeth mortality is more from 35 to 64 years [3]. Th...

Dental disease and psychiatric illness are among the most prevalent health problems in the Western world. While the dental needs of mentally ill people are similar in type to those in the general population (Markette et al, 1975) there is some evidence that patients suffering from mental illness are more vulnerable to dental neglect and poor oral health (Stiefel et al, 1990; Armstrong, 1994). S...

The diagnosis and classification of mucosal disease for the busy general dental practitioner can be difficult since many mucosal diseases present with a similar oral appearance. The term desquamative gingivitis (DG) is often used as a descriptive term because the aetiology of the inflammation may originate from multiple oral conditions. In this review article, we discuss oral lichen planus, muc...