Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA During the recent century, the prevalence of dental caries has been changed widely. Therefore, following industrial revolution of Europe in 19th century and industrialization of European countries as well as population increase in the cities and changes in nutritional diets of people, dental caries prev...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Since many Dental interventions are stressful for patients, using premedications specially for younger patients in order to decrease their stress and anxiety is recommended. Premedication can also lessen patients' fears and soothe both patient and practitioner. This will lead to a better treatment in a ...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA In present article, in order to evaluate the role of genetics in the etiology of lichen planus, 14 patients (6 with familial history of lichen planus and 8 without any history of the disease in family) were selected. HLA antigens (class 1, class 2, B, C) were analyzed by lymphocytotoxicity NIH two stage...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Burning mouth syndrome is a painful oral disease without specific clinical symptoms. Explanation and definition of the disease depend on many factors and is characteristics to each patient.  3 types of this syndrome have been defined. Almost all oral disease specialists believe that burning mouth syndrom...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA In this clinical and paraclinical  research carried out in 15 months, 83 individuals were selected among private office patients who were then decreased to 32 after consideration of  some predesigned conditions of the study. 18 male patients of 6-11 yrs and 14 female patients of 5.5-9 yrs were participa...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Adhesive restorations have been introduced to dentistry for almost 3 decades and it could be stated that from that time there has been lots of ups and downs until emersion of current restorations. What was focused the most at the time of introducing these restorations was their long lasting estimated st...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor is a benign nonprevalent epithelial odontogenic tumor that induces odontogenic ectomesenchyme. The nature of AOT have always been questionable. In current study, as well as evaluating the prevalence of AOT cases in pathology department of Tehran university dental schools, so...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Osteodistraction is a technique for increasing the length of bone in order to form new bone by using  natural bone healing mechanism of the body. In general,  Osteotomy surgery ( corticotomy) is done in the place which bone lengthening is needed. Then an external fixator  is installed that is continuou...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Xeroradiography is a modern imaging method that can aid diagnosis of oral, dental and maxillofacial lesions, treatment planning and  follow-ups. It has been used since 1970 in medical field and has entered dentistry in 1980 after some modifications. In this technique, x-ray is used with no need to devel...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA The following reports are introducing 3 patients with progressive systemic sclerosis who had oral manifestations such as limited mouth opening, PDL thickening,... as well as uncommon internal resorption in many of their teeth with any etiologic factor. According to oral manifestations of systemic sclero...