AIM The aim of the study is to determine how rural children view children with visible incisor fracture. MATERIALS AND METHODS Class 7 (aged 11-12 years) and class 10 (aged 14-15 years) schoolchildren (the participants) were invited to make a social judgment about the color photograph of two children (the subjects). Participants were randomly allocated either (i) pictures of children without ...

Teeth are an integral part of facial aesthetics involved in complex social, cultural & psychological interaction. Of all, latest, tooth color measurement has attracted attention the field dentistry for assessing age. To assess correlation between enamel and chronological age to evaluate individual from color. This was a cross sectional study that included total 200 individuals attending outp...

The formation of boundaries is a fundamental organizing principle during development. The Notch signalling pathway regulates this developmental patterning mechanism in many tissues. Recent data suggest that Notch receptors are involved in boundary determination during odontogenesis. It remains, however, uncertain if other components of the Notch pathway are also important for compartmental line...

A 66-year-old man visited our department with the chief complaint of poor esthetics due to loss of a fixed partial denture in a maxillary incisor tooth and difficulty in mastication due to an ill-fitting, mandibular removable partial denture. An analysis of the occlusal vertical dimension resulted in a diagnosis of infraocclusion. After increasing vertical dimension with a provisional restorati...

Mandibles are prominent masticatory structures in the mouth parts of grasshoppers provided an opportunity to analyze structural variations among different species grasshoppers. In this study mandibles twenty short horned examined for two reasons - whether grasshopper bear any taxonomic significance and test if one could use mandible establish inter relationships The morpho plan having incisor, ...

Impact of implant dentistry is such that today very few dentists think about saving grade III mobile anterior teeth. A patient with grade III mobility of central incisor due to apical root resorption was treated by using 80 no.stainless steel 'H' file as endostabiliser and one year follow up was done. Endostabiliser reduced the mobility of grade III mobile teeth drastically, immediately after i...

Successful endodontic management of teeth with odontogenic anamolies is quite challenging. Fusion is a condition where crowns of two individual teeth have been joined together during crown development. Though fusion occurs infrequently, it could predispose to caries and periodontal disease because of the abnormal tooth morphology. Here is a rare case of fusion of maxillary lateral incisor with ...

A 12-year-old patient sustained avulsions of both permanent maxillary central incisors. Subsequently, both teeth developed replacement resorption. The left incisor was extracted alio loco. The right incisor was treated by decoronation (removal of crown and pulp, but preservation of the root substance). Comparison of both sites demonstrated complete preservation of the height and width of the al...

While understanding somatic variability among wild primates can provide insight into natural patterns of developmental plasticity, published data for living populations are rare. Here we provide such information for two distinct wild populations of Lemur catta. Variants observed include microtia, athelia, and female virilization. Dental variants observed include individuals with supernumerary t...

Dento-alveolar traumas are one of the most frequent injuries to teeth, mainly affecting the upper incisors due to their exposed position in the dental arch. In such cases, esthetics, function and phonetics of anterior teeth may be compromised. Furthermore, when there is involvement of the biological width, there is often a poor prognosis. This case report describes the multidisciplinary approac...