PURPOSE Xerostomia can diminish the quality of life, leads to changes in normal chemical composition of saliva and oral microbiata, and increases the risk for opportunistic infections, such as Candida albicans. Various artificial salivas have been considered for patients with xerostomia. However, the knowledge on the antifungal and antiadhesive activity of artificial saliva substitutes is limit...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Bacterial plaque is a biofilm which is related to its host and its exact role is proved in caries and periodontal disease. These days people brush their teeth and use mouthwash. In this research the effect of Jaman solution (Hezar Co., Iran) was compared with Biotene mouth rinse in an in-vitro study.METHODS: Biotene mouth rinse (Laclede Co., US) contains 4 antibacterial enzy...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three different antiseptic mouthrinse solutions on the saliva samples obtained from the individuals, who had high caries activity rate. METHODS The efficacy of three antiseptic mouthrinses were evaluated in a study with healthy volunteers. The three antiseptic solutions used in this study were 0.1% octenidine dihydrochlorid...

A 76-year old male presented at the Oral Medicine Clinic, complaining of a persistent feeling of a dry mouth, subsequent to having undergone surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 18 months previously. Other than the cancer, he had no systemic problems of note and was otherwise in good physical health. Upon further questioning, the patient reported that the dr...

Water uptake in two glass-ionomer cements stored in various aqueous ionic solutions has been studied following a 6-week storage period, and the bound/unbound water ratio has been determined. Both types of cement took up water with net uptake varying with the storage solution. Uptake was greatest with KCl and lowest for 0.9 % NaCl. By comparison with an immature (1 hour old) specimen of each cem...

Green Energy In article number 2201667, Douglas S. Galvao, Partha Kumbhakar, Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, and co-workers convert dust crystals of biotite ores from mountains into atomically thin two-dimensional materials using liquid exfoliation. Two-dimensional-biotite can be utilized to harvest small force/pressure or strain for generating green electricity.

Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate & compare the wetting ability of five saliva substitutes & distilled water on heat-polymerized acrylic resin. Contact angle of the saliva substitute on denture base can be taken as an indicator of wettability. Good wetting of heat-polymerized acrylic resin is critical for optimum retention of complete dentures. Methods Two hundred & forty sam...

Background: Association of Addison's disease with connective tissue diseases such as scleroderma and Sjogren have been rarely reported. Anti-centromere antibody (ACA) has been associated with exocrine gland dysfunction in anti-Ro, anti-La negative Sjogren’s syndrome and may be one of the causes of xerostomia in community. The purpose of this article was to introduce a rare case of scleroderma-S...

Background: Despite all advances in prevention and therapy, the 5-year survival rate for oral carcinoma remains at 50%. Cigarette and cigar smoking, alcohol drinking, and smokeless tobacco chewing are known carcinogenic habits. In addition, the incidence of human papilloma viral-related oral cancers has increased. Other agents implicated are Epstein-Barr virus and oral Candida albicans. Also, a...

© 2013 Wu et al; licensee Herbert Publications Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). This permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction Head and neck cancer accounts for approximately 3 percent of all...