Background: Knowledge of the normal tooth eruption patterns is essential for the identification and appropriate treatment of deviations in eruption that may endanger physiologic development. A delay in time between the exfoliation of a deciduous tooth and the eruption of its permanent successor may be related to a disorder known as dental retention. This occurs when tooth eruption does not occu...

BACKGROUND Caries, enamel hypoplasia, molar incisor hipomineralization, amylogenesis imperfecta, dentine dysplasia, hypophosphatasia and other dental disorders lead to tooth mineralization disturbances and structural abnormalities, decreasing masticatory organ functions. Dental disorders in sheep can lead to premature slaughter before they have attained final stage of their reproductive life an...

Orthodontic treatment of a complex case that involves retained deciduous mandibular second molars with missing permanent successors is challenging. Usually, congenitally missing teeth are manifested with other dental anomalies that further complicate orthodontic treatment, such as retained deciduous teeth, impactions, transpositions and peg-shaped lateral incisors. Even though the long term pro...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the adaptation of different types of restorations towards deciduous and young permanent teeth. MATERIAL AND METHODS Class V cavities were prepared in deciduous and young permanent teeth and filled with different materials (a conventional glass-ionomer, a resin-modified glass-ionomer, a poly-acid-modified composite resin and a conventional com...

OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to investigate the microbial profiles of teeth in different locations in mixed-dentition-stage children, and to compare the microbiomes of permanent and deciduous teeth in the same healthy oral cavity. METHODS Supragingival plaque samples of teeth in various locations-the first permanent molars, deciduous molars, deciduous canines and incisors and per...

Postnatal dental development may be used as a reference standard in the absence of exact-age information because dental variability is less than variability for other calcified structures (S. M. GARN, A. B. LEWIS, and D. L. POLACHECK, Science 128:1510, 1958; J Dent Res 38: 135-148, 1959) and is not affected much by nutritional status (S. M. GARN, A. B. LEWIS and R. S. KEREWSKY, J Dent Res 44:22...

Mature cystic teratomas are a form of ovarian germ cell tumor and often called ‘dermoid cysts’ because they are mostly cystic. Many teratomas have teeth with morphologically identifiable crowns and roots. The objective of this study was to carry out morphometric measurements of teratomatous teeth extracted from a mature cystic teratoma excised from a 28-year-old female patient. The extracted te...

BACKGROUND Feeding mode during infancy and its effect on deciduous tooth appearance in oral cavity in two generations and among genders. AIM AND OBJECTIVE Study aimed to compare and correlate times and patterns of deciduous tooth eruption in breastfeeding (OBF), partial breastfeeding (PBF) and spoon feeding (SF) infants and initiation of semisolid food feeding (SSF) in infants. It also aimed ...