Two contradictory hypotheses on the role of dietary carbohydrates in health and disease shape how dental-systemic associations are regarded. On one side, Cleave and Yudkin postulated that excessive dietary fermentable carbohydrate intake led-in the absence of dental interventions such as fluorides-first to dental diseases and then to systemic diseases. Under this hypothesis, dental and systemic...

Background: Oral health plays an important role in maintaining life functions and quality of life. Gingivitis periodontitis are two forms periodontal disease that exist on a spectrum ranging from bleeding, erythematous, inflamed gingival tissue to the loss attachment alveolar bone. Dental caries diseases most common oral ailments major causes tooth loss. Objectives: The study aimed evaluate hae...

BACKGROUND Tooth root problems and periodontal diseases are common in South American camelids (SAC). The objective was to evaluate and optimize the imaging technique for dental radiography in SAC and to describe the radiographic and computed tomographic (CT) anatomy of normal teeth at different ages. In this study, the heads of 20 healthy SAC slaughtered for meat production or euthanized for re...

magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography Shoko Gamoh, DDS, PhD, Yukako Nakashima, DDS, Hironori Akiyama, DDS, PhD, Kaname Tsuji, DDS, PhD, Koji Yamada, DDS, PhD, Motoyuki Suzuki, MD, PhD, Shosuke Morita, DDS, PhD, and Kimishige Shimizutani, DDS, PhD Osaka Dental University and Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan (Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Ora...

Untreated dental disease represents a potential risk for infection in transplant patients, but the vast transplantation literature has few references to this complication. There is also little information with regard to dental care protocols for patients before and after organ transplantation. To obtain more definitive documentation about the policies that deal with dental care and experience w...

background and aims. in the presence of certain systemic diseases, oral microflora may aggravate the condition of the disease. microbial population in the oral cavity especially with heart disease can increase the risk of bacterial endocarditis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of oral streptococcus mutans and the rate of caries in children suffering from heart disease. materials ...

BACKGROUND Dental waste can be hazardous to humans and the environment. OBJECTIVE To determine the current status of dental waste management in private and public dental clinics and private dental offices in Shiraz, southern Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences from February through June 2013. A stratified random sampling method...