abstract : before initiating any endodontic therapy, probability of extra canals should be considered. the incidence of three canals in mandibular second premolar has been reported to be 0.46-0.5%. the present report describes nonsurgical endodontic treatment of three mandibular second premolars with three canals. in these cases, three orifices were located in mesiobuccal, distobuccal and lingu...

by increasing number of vessels. salivary gland tumors are uncommon and their overall incidence is about 3 per 100000 per year. salivary gland hemangioma makes up 1 % of all salivary gland tumors. trismus resulting from parotid hemangioma is so rare. the patient was a 6-month-old boy with a huge lesion in his right parotid who referred to shahid sadoughi hospital of yazd, iran. the lesion appea...

Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) is a developmental disorder inherited in an autosomal-dominant pattern. Affected organs are the heart and forelimbs with upper extremity skeletal defects and congenital heart malformation. In this study we present three cases of HOS in the same family. In one of these three individuals we detected a transition of C to T (CTG-GTT, V205V) in exon 7 of the TBX5 gene. This ...

In order to determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its related factors in remote areas of Zanjan Province, this stud was performed in 1996. 1997 persons older than 30 years of age 706 (36%) male and 1271 (64%) female were selected by random sampling from all rural areas in Zanjan. FBS and 2h postprandial BS following 75 gm glucose were determined. In second stage, full 2h GTT was per...