The highest percentage of lesions among permanent teeth in childhood occurs on the first molars.
 Objective our research was to study peculiarities caries development molars childhood, taking into account their odontoglyphics years after eruption.
 Materials and methods. type pattern chewing surface determined according schemes odontoglyphic variants upper lower jaws, proposed by A.P....

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of both impaction and associated pathosis in a Saudi population in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia based on digital panoramic radiographs. METHODS This study was carried out from December 2013 to February 2015. Panoramic radiographs of 359male patients attending the Oral Diagnosis Clinics, Faculty of Dentistry, Taibah University, Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia were revi...

BACKGROUND oligodontia is a condition with developmental absence of six or more permanent teeth excluding the third molars. It is a rare finding which has not been frequently documented in Nigerian children. OBJECTIVE to report a case of non syndromic oligodontia. METHODS The details of the clinical presentation, course and outcome of a 9-year-old child with oligodontia were reviewed. The c...

Tooth agenesis in Malay children, hitherto unreported, was assessed retrospectively from orthopantomograms of 834 healthy children aged 12-16 years who attended the Dental Clinic of Universiti Sains Malaysia. All teeth, including third molars, were assessed for agenesis. On an average, 2.3 teeth were missing per child. Missing third molars were found in 25.7% of children with one or two third m...

Times of eruption of third molars were studied in rural Nigerian adolescents--125 males and 133 females. Results of this study showed that the average age for the initial eruption of third molars was 15 years in male subjects and 13 years for female subjects. The incidence of eruption showed a steep rise after the age of 16 years for male subjects and 14 years for female subjects. By the age of...

INTRODUCTION Having knowledge about the anatomy of root canal system is essential for success of endodontic treatment. The present study used cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), to evaluate the prevalence of third root in mandibular first molars in a selected Iranian population. METHODS AND MATERIALS A total of 386 CBCT images from subjects referred to oral and maxillofacial radiology depar...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of the study was to generate new prediction equations for the estimation of maxillary and mandibular canine and premolar widths based on mandibular incisors and first permanent molar widths. METHODS A total of 2,340 calculations (768 based on the sum of mandibular incisor and first permanent molar widths, and 1,572 based on the maxillary and mandibular canine and pre...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the class, type, position, diagnosis and most common procedures used in the surgical removal of third molars, and evaluate the sex and age distribution in a representative sample of Mexican patients. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective descriptive study was made covering the period 1993-2008 in relation to 9148 extracted third molars in 3206 patients treated in the Dental Sc...

UNLABELLED Root canal anatomical complexities, such as isthmus, may limit the action of the endodontic instruments, irrigant solutions and intracanal medications, leading to endodontic treatment failure. OBJECTIVES This in vitro study assessed the type, position and incidence of isthmus in human permanent molars. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and twenty eight upper and lower first and se...

BACKGROUND Mandibular first molars typically have two roots but sometimes a supernumerary root presents distolingually called as radix entomolaris (RE). AIM The present study evaluated the prevalence of permanent mandibular first molars featuring a distolingual root in Haryana (North India). MATERIALS AND METHODS Five hundred patients possessing bilateral mandibular first molars were select...