Dental diseases are common in man and range from a toothache to cancers of the head and neck. Dental conditions can affect our capacity to function effectively in areas such as smiling, chewing and speaking. The objective of this study was to describe the main types of dental conditions presenting at the University Hospital between January 2006 and December 2011 and to determine factors associa...

The aim of the study was to assess microbial quality of water in dental unit waterlines in a dental school at Mangalore. Methodology: Water samples were taken from tap water for control, air/water syringe and the high speed hand piece of 20 dental units. The samples were transferred to the laboratory and streaked on the culture media namely Mac Conkey agar, Sabourauds dextrose media, Buffered c...

Christian Bacci1,2; Michele Maglione3; Lorenzo Favero1; Alessandro Perini3; Roberto Di Lenarda3; Mario Berengo1; Ezio Zanon4 1Department of Medical and Surgical Science, Section of Clinical Dentistry, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; 2Department of Dentistry, Unit of Dentistry and Stomatology, Provincial Health Service of Trento, Trento, Italy; 3Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sci...

1 Santiago de Compostela University, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Special Needs Unit, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2 Tel-Aviv University, School of Dental Medicine, Tel-Aviv, Israel 3 Griffith Health Institute, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia 4 University of Copenhagen, Department of Oral Medicine, Section of Oral Pathology & Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark 5 University of Parma, O...

Dentists are at risk of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). Dental treatment equipment has high-intensity noise levels. Occupational levels multi-unit dental clinic higher than private and further increased NIHL. This study aims to develop a noise-reducing appointment system in clinics using duration steps noisemap. Restorative, periodontal, prosthetic procedure were measured clinic. A map was c...

introduction: salivary calcium and phosphate levels might have a relationship with dental caries severity. evaluation of different indexes such as alkaline phosphatase, which increases salivary phosphate levels, and hydroxyapatite ion activity, which reflects salivary calcium and phosphate levels, might help determine the risk of dental caries. the aim of the present study was to compare saliva...