The dental literature supports the many benefits of dental implant-supported prostheses for the fully edentulous arch.1 These benefits include increased chewing ability, bone preservation, sharpened phonetics, and an improved psychological outlook for an edentulous patient. Treatment planning for dental implants is a multidisciplinary process that takes into account many areas of dentistry and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although poor and minority adults experience greater levels of dental disease, they frequently face cost and other system-level barriers to obtaining dental care. These individuals may be forced to use physicians or hospital emergency rooms for the treatment of dental problems. This study was conducted to gain a better understanding of the role that non-dentist health ...

Abstract Introduction: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of dental caries and plaque in patients undergoing removable orthodontic treatment.  Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 57 patients were selected and examined for dental caries (clinically and radiographically) and plaque (O’Leary Index) on permanent and primary teeth. Data were analyzed using chi-square an...

BACKGROUND Based on the hypothesis that a vicious cycle of dental fear exists, whereby the consequences of fear tend to maintain that fear, the relationship between dental fear, self-reported oral health status and the use of dental services was explored. METHODS The study used a telephone interview survey with interviews predominantly conducted in 2002. A random sample of 6,112 Australian re...

AIM To present the strategies of treatment for dental implications of eating disorders. METHODS AND MATERIALS A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted with special emphasis on the treatment of the oral implications of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, dividing the treatment into different parts. RESULTS Oral manifestations of eating disorders represent a challenge to the d...

BACKGROUND Dentistry is a small component of the undergraduate medical curriculum, however many patients with oral disease seek advice from their doctor. Problems include dental pain, abscesses, avulsed teeth and fractured jaws. Some patients associate the concept of dental treatment with negative emotions (ie. fear), and doctors are generally seen as caring professionals who might provide reas...

BACKGROUND Antibiotic prophylaxis before dental treatment is routinely recommended by orthopaedic surgeons to prevent prosthetic joint infection (PJI). This recommendation is at odds with current guidelines. METHODS A postal survey of 9 checkbox or short-answer questions was completed by 633 orthopaedic surgeons. RESULTS The majority of respondents (n = 186 of 260, 72%) believe that antibio...

Background: Developing cell-based therapeutic methods for the differentiation of various stem cells to the dental tissues could be a revolutionary step towards the use of cell therapy for dental disease. In the present study, we aimed to systematically review the literature to establish the efficiency of stem cells in treatment of various dental diseases. Methods: A literature search was perfo...

The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by Coronavirus is causing severe acute respiratory infections. profession of dental health service workers must know the proper infection prevention and control. care in low-middle-income countries at odds with developed facing challenges a lack personal protective equipment (PPE) infrastructure constraints. This study aims to determine control stra...

Dental implants have become an accepted treatment modality for aging patients with either completely or partially edentulous arches. However, growing patients with congenitally missing primary and/or permanent teeth often need dental implant treatment, even before puberty, for optimum functional and/or psychosocial development. From a developmental perspective, dental implants cannot accompany ...