introduction the frequency of pediatric and adolescent oral and maxillofacial lesions is various in different societies. the present study aimed at investigating the frequency of oral and maxillofacial pediatric and adolescent biopsies in zahedan (southeast iran), and compare the results with other epidemiologic studies.methods and materials this retrospective study reviewed oral and maxillofac...

results and conclusion: lasers are useful for soft tissue surgery in modern dentistry, especially in relation to pediatric patients due to the rapid and regular wound healing without sutures. introduction: epulis granulomatosa is a lesion which grows from an extraction socket. it can be misdiagnosed with lesions of the same clinical appearance such as: foreign body or pyogenic granuloma, or as ...

introduction: diabetes can affect organs including the oral mucosa. there is a disagreement about the prevalence of oral mucosal disease in diabetic patients. we therefore decided to investigate more about that. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of soft tissue pathologies by assessing burning mouth and xerostomia in diabetic patients on the basis of type of diabetes and cont...

background and aims. reactive hyperplastic lesions of the oral connective tissue are associated with injuries of soft tissue and have high prevalence rates and different involvement patterns in different parts of the world. the aim of this study was to analyze demographic data of a university department. materials and methods. patient records of the department of oral pathology during a four-ye...

introduction: the role of laser in conservative management of oral disease is well established. laser procedures are common in the fields of oral surgery, implant dentistry, endodontic, and periodontic therapy. case: this case series describes the use of diode laser for the excision of oral exophytic lesions. all the patients attended the oral medicine department of shahid beheshti university o...

introduction: oral manifestations can be the first signs of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) and a useful marker for the progression of this disease. the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of oral manifestations and examine their relationship with socio-demographic factors in hiv-positive patients in the health centers affiliated to zahedan...

abstract background and aims. reliable immunohistochemical assays to evaluate the definitive role of mast cells and angiogenesis in the pathogenesis of oral reactive lesions are generally not available. the purpose of the present study was to compare mast cell count (mcc) and microvessel density (mvd) between oral reactive lesions and evaluation of the correlation between mcc and mvd in these l...

introduction: oral lichen planus (olp) is a common mucocutanous disorder with unknown etiology. while current data suggest that oral lichen planus is a cell-mediated autoimmune disease, it might be associated to s+100, cd+4 and cd+8 cells. because of differential diagnosis of olp and oral lichenoid lesion (oll) is usually difficult this study was designed to compare any probable immunohistochem...

background: the clinical and pathological evaluation of oral lesions are very important in this field. the purpose of this study was to assess clinico- pathological agreement on 232 cases with oral lesion s.methods: the consecutive files of 232 patients with oral lesions from pathological laboratory archives of babol dental faculty and shahid beheshti hospital were reviewed and the data include...

Background: Oral lesions can affect people’s quality of life by impairment of chewing, swallowing and speech. These lesions may originate from epithelial or mesenchymal tissues. Malignant oral lesions could be life-threatening. Epidemiological data about oral lesions in our country is limited. Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the frequency of histopathologic features of oral ...