The diagnosis of impacted foreign body in the colon is usually delayed until the complications such as perforation or abscess formation occur. Here we describe a patient who presented with diffuse abdominal pain due to the impaction of a dental prosthesis in the hepatic flexure of the colon. The dental prosthesis, which was inadvertently swallowed, was successfully removed under colonoscopy. Un...

May and colleagues each reported a case of endogenous endophthalmitis in patients with gingival disease that progressed to an abscess. In the latter case, the patient also had undergone a cavity filling 7 days before onset of symptoms. Our case of endogenous endophthalmitis was in an immunocompetent individual who underwent routine dental cleaning 10 days before seeing an ophthalmologist. She d...

Material and Methods: Children as dental patients, a study The records of 100 children between age 2-10 years visiting a pediatric dental clinic for various pulpal and periapical conditions were evaluated. A total of 364 procedures (pulp therapies such as pulpotomy and pulpectomy, and extractions) were carried out in the children for different pulpal and periapical pathologies (irreversible pul...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background There are limited data on whether there is an association between hospitalisation with dental periapical abscess and new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) which independent main cardiovascular risk factors. Purpose To investigate AF. Methods A retrospective cohort study from a national database patients hospitalised in 201...

With due regard to the side effects of some modern medications in the recent years, attentions have been drawn to some other alternatives such as herbal medicine. The latter drives from traditional and eastern medicine. Pioneers such as Avicenna are at the center of eastern, Iranian and Islamic medicine. This research aims at drawing attention of physicians, dentists and researchers to the subj...

AIM Aspiration of the abscess cavity versus excision of capsule are still in debate for the capsulated, large, superficially located abscesses. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty patients who had large, solitary, capsulated, and superficially located lobar abscesses were analyzed retrospectively to compare the efficiency of two different surgical approaches and their impact on postoperative antibiot...

During a study of factors influencing the rebound phenomenon in rheumatic fever, a high incidence of infections, especially the dental abscess, was found in children treated with cortisone or corticotrophin (Holt, 1956). These dental lesions showed several unusual features, and so that more could be learnt about them and their relationship to the rebound phenomenon, 34 children treated for rheu...