Ectodermal dysplasia is a hereditary disorder that occurs as a consequence of disturbances in the ectoderm of the developing embryo. The triad of nail dystrophy, alopecia or hypotrichosis and palmoplantar hyperkeratosis is usually accompanied by a lack of sweat glands and a partial or complete absence of primary and/or permanent dentition. Two case reports illustrating the prosthetic rehabilita...

This clinical report describes the oral rehabilitation of a very young child diagnosed with hypoplastic amelogenesis imperfecta. The specific treatment objectives being adequate patient management, eliminate tooth sensitivity while enhancing esthetics, masticatory function and improved self confidence. The treatment included full mouth rehabilitation with stainless steel crowns on posterior tee...

The rehabilitation of maxillary and mandibular bone atrophy represents one of the main challenges of modern oral implantology because it requires a variety of procedures, which not only differ technically, but also differ in their results. In the face of limitations such as deficiencies in the height and thickness of the alveolar structure, prosthetic rehabilitation has sought to avoid large bo...

To describe the sociodemographic conditions, need for oral rehabilitation and access to dental services elderly people enrolled in Senior Living Center city of Altamira-Pa. A social action was carried out with 61 people, 47 female 14 male. As rehabilitation, both genders used prosthesis total (72,1%) partial (50,8%) were considered inappropriate 27,9%. Edentulism evidenced as a public health pr...

Traumatic injuries to the dento-alveolar structures are emergencies that compromise the quality of life of the patients. In addition to symptomatic management, definitive functional restoration and suitable rehabilitation becomes a major treatment objective in such cases. The dynamics of the traumatic forces may cause multiple injuries of different grades to the oral and para-oral structures, w...

1 Division of Fixed Prosthodontics and Oral Implantology, Department of Oral Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan 2 Postdoctoral Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Oral Microbiology, School of dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan 4 Department of Oral Biology, Sch...

BACKGROUND malnutrition is an important risk factor for poor outcome in patients recovering after hip fracture surgery. This study aimed to investigate the clinical, nutritional and rehabilitation effects of an oral nutritional supplementation (ONS) in an inpatient rehabilitation setting. METHODS this was an observer-blinded randomised controlled trial of elderly post-surgical proximal femora...