Stem cell-based therapy has great potential in treating health conditions including cardiovascular, autoimmune, type I diabetes, neurodegenerative and bone and cartilage diseases also in spinal cord injuries, malformations and cancer. In addition to their potential use to treat systemic diseases, stem cell-based therapy also provides a powerful tool to treat oral and dental diseases such as cra...

Aims: To assess the level of satisfaction with dental care among dental students and to know whether students in different stages of the dental course had any difference in their level of satisfaction with dental care. Methods: 372 students from first to final year and interns completed the nineteen item Dental Satisfaction Questionnaire (DSQ). Results: The mean DSQ total was 49.64±10.3. The co...

BACKGROUND Dental phobia is part of the Blood-Injection-Injury (B-I-I) phobia subtype of specific phobia within DSM-IV-TR. To investigate the conceptual validity of this classification, the purpose of the present study was to determine the co-occurrence of dental phobia, typical dental (and B-I-I related) fears, vasovagal fainting, and avoidance of dental care. METHOD Data were collected by a...

OBJECTIVE The oral cavity is location for different conditions of local and systemic origin; many of them with controverted and or multifactorial etiology, where the psychogenic factors constitute an important variable to be considered. Keeping this in mind, this paper aims to assess the awareness of dental professionals of the role of psychological factors in certain dental conditions. Further...

BACKGROUND This cross sectional study was performed to evaluate dental ages and incidence of dental anomalies in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). METHODS AND MATERIALS A total of 25 ALL patient who passed at least 2 years of chemotherapy and 25 healthy sex and age matched children were evaluated. Dental age as well as dental anomalies in shape, size, number, and struct...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the subjective ratings of dental anxiety levels among university students enrolled at Jordan University of Science and Technology. In addition, the present study aimed to explore the sources of dental anxiety and the impact of gender on the perceived dental anxiety and the correlation between field of study and dental anxiety level. MATERIAL AN...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence and level of dental fear among health related undergraduates and to identify factors causing such fear using Kleinknecht's Dental Fear Survey (DFS) questionnaire. METHODS Kleinknecht's DFS questionnaire was used to assess dental fear and anxiety among the entire enrollment of the medical and dental undergraduates' of the University of Malaya. RESULTS Overa...

1Sonal B Dudhia, 2Bhavin B Dudhia, 3Jigna S Shah 1Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine and Dental Radiology, College of Dental Science Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 2Associate Professor, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Oral Medicine and Dental Radiology, Ahmedabad Dental College and Hospital Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India 3Professor and Head, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Ora...

1Full Professor, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Araraquara Dental School, UNESP Univ. Estadual Paulista , Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 2Associate Professor, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Araraquara Dental School, UNESP Univ. Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 3Former graduate student, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Araraquara Denta...