BACKGROUND Periodontal disease is highly prevalent amongst domestic cats, causing pain, gingival bleeding, reduced food intake, loss of teeth and possibly impacts on overall systemic health. Diet has been suggested to play a role in the development of periodontal disease in cats. There is a complete lack of information about how diet (composition and texture) affects the feline oral microbiome,...

in this paper i would like to build on a report i’ve achieved in 2009 for the French ministry of Culture concerning the impacts of the intangible cultural heritage nominations on tourism (Fournier 2009). the case study i’ll specially focus on will be the “processional giants and dragons in belgium and France” which were first introduced as a “masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of h...

background: a comprehensive system of assessing orthodontic need requires the integration of normative clinical measures with patient-based indicators. this study sought to discover weather an oral health-related quality of life measure or aesthetic component of index of orthodontic treatment need (ac-iotn) could be used as a predictor of orthodontic treatment need. factors affecting the judgme...

evaluation of periodontal status by cpitn among (35-44) – year – old population in khoramabad (2002) dr. f. haghighati* - dr. sh. salehi** - dr. r. valizadeh*** * - associate professor of periodontics dept. - faculty of dentistry – tehran university of medical sciences. **-assistant professor of periodontics dept. - faculty of dentistry – tehran university of medical sciences. ***- dentist. bac...

introduction: multiple myeloma is a neoplasm of monoclonal plasmacells which may cause oral manifestations. we report a 50-year-old man with a mass burned out of a post extraction socket. he had recived an eight month period of chemotherapy and was supposed to be ready for hematopoetic stem cell transplantation. after clinical and histopathological examinations, the mass was diagnosed as a plas...

The leading treatments for postmenopausal osteoporosis are the nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, which are required long term for optimal benefit. Oral bisphosphonates have proven efficacy in postmenopausal osteoporosis in clinical trials, but in practice the therapeutic benefits are often compromised by patients' low adherence. Nonadherence to bisphosphonate therapy negatively impacts outco...

BACKGROUND The Child Perceptions Questionnaires (CPQ8-10 and CPQ11-14) are indicators of child oral health-related quality of life. The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of the self-applied CPQ8-10 and CPQ11-14 in Brazilian children, after translations and cultural adaptations in the Brazilian Portuguese language. METHODS Schoolchildren were recruited from general p...

PURPOSE This study was designed to assess the impact of "pain and swelling" associated with third molars on patients' quality of life before surgery. PATIENTS AND METHODS The data for these analyses were obtained from a larger ongoing study designed to examine the surgical and medical management of problems associated with third molars. Data from 480 patients with 4 third molars scheduled for...