introduction: lasers have made tremendous progress in the field of dentistry and have turned out to be crucial in oral surgery as collateral approach for soft tissue surgery. this rapid progress can be attributed to the fact that lasers allow efficient execution of soft tissue procedures with excellent hemostasis and field visibility. when matched to scalpel, electrocautery or high frequency de...

giant cell granulomas of the jaws are rather common in [rail, however, more reliable data need to be published in this retrospecti ve study 1,083 cases ojpgco and cgcg (817 peripheral and 203 central) were extracted from 6800 oral biopsy archives of the oral pathology department and were analyzed: age and sex ofthe patients and type and location distribution were obtained our results show that ...

We report a rare case of tuberculosis of oral cavity in a 3.5 year-old male who was referred to oral medicine department with a chief complaint of a painless lesion in the oral cavity. Incisional biopsy from the lesion margin depicted histological features of necrotizing granulomatous lesion. Ziehl-Neelsen staining for acid fast bacilli, interestingly, was negative.

OBJECTIVES Evaluating data of patients affected by oral mucoceles, examined at the Unit of Oral Medicine and Pathology of the University of Milan between January 1994 and December 2008. STUDY DESIGN Concise review on oral mucoceles and analysis of the clinical files of patients who underwent excisional biopsy (patient age, medical history, diagnosis, date and site of the biopsy, histopatholog...

OBJECTIVE We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the brush biopsy technique using OralCDx ® (OralScan Laboratories Inc., Suffern, NY) as a new method for early diagnosis and control of a "potentially malignant disorder" such as oral leukoplakia. DESIGN OF THE STUDY We performed a study in which samples were taken using OralCDx ® on 24 patients who visited the Master of Oral Medicine, Oral Su...

BACKGROUND UV radiation induces damage to human skin. Protection of skin by an oral photoprotective agent would have substantial benefits. Objective We investigated the photoprotective effect of oral administration of an extract of the natural antioxidant Polypodium leucotomos (PL). METHODS A total of 9 healthy participants of skin types II to III were exposed to varying doses of artificial U...

Introduction Accurate diagnosis and treatment of oral disease is an essential component of the patient’s comprehensive dental care and the foundation of high-quality dentistry. Inaccurate diagnosis or failure to diagnose oral disease may have profound implications for both the patient and the clinician. A wide array of procedures and techniques is available to assist in the diagnosis of oral di...