ectodermal dysplasia is a hereditary disorder associated with abnormal development of embryonic ectodermally-derived organs including teeth, nails, hair and sweat glands. hypodontia of the primary and permanent dentition is the most common oral finding. therefore, affected patients need dental prosthetic treatments during their developmental years. this report presents two cases of children aff...

glanzmann's thrombasthenia (gt) is a rare, genetically inherited platelet disorder in which the platelet glycoprotein iib/iiia (gp iib/iiia) complex is either deficient or, dysfunctional. the incidence is about 1 in 1,000,000. this case report deals with a 4 year-old girl diagnosed with gt presenting with dental caries and periapical lesions in the primary mandibular first molars. to provide th...

"Oral rehabilitation" is a phrase that is used to encompass several levels of oral therapy. Usually, dentists think of an oral rehabilitation as meaning restoration of all of the teeth in a given mouth. However, when only the defective teeth in any mouth are restored, that too could be defined as an oral rehabilitation. The advent of esthetic dentistry has encouraged oral rehabilitation for est...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe the symptoms, daily life problems and parental concerns related to oral health for children with special health care needs; and (2) examine the effectiveness of oral rehabilitation under general anesthesia at improving quality of life (QOL). METHODS A single-group design measuring change over time was used. Family caregivers of 107 chil...

The report of the aims, history and activities of the International Research Group on Reconstructive Preprosthetic Surgery (IRGRPS) appeared in the Journal in 1996. The Consensus Statement that had evolved over the years of the existence of the IRGRPS was also published at that time and updated in 2000. Since those publications, three more meetings have been held—Kiel (2001), Palm Springs (2003...

Terukazu Sanui1*, Takao Fukuda1*, Urara Tanaka1, Kyosuke Toyoda1, Kensuke Yamamichi1, Takaharu Taketomi2, and Fusanori Nishimura1 1Department of Periodontology, Division of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Dental Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 2Dental and Oral Medical Center, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan *Corresponding authors: Terukazu Sanui, Department of Per...

Head and neck radiotherapy has some intraoral side effects that affect the treatment planning for oral rehabilitation .some treatment options have been discussed in articles. Choosing the best treatment should be based on the patient’s oral conditions affected by radiotherapy.  

Osseointegrated implants are widely used in dental rehabilitation. They are particularly valuable if the structures supporting a denture had to be removed because of oral cancer. Additionally, many of these patients undergo radiotherapy, but cancer and radiotherapy are seen as relative contraindications for implant therapy. In the literature, there are few clinical studies documenting successfu...

AIM Oral rehabilitation of a child with Johanson-Blizzard syndrome (JBS). BACKGROUND JBS is an extremely rare inherited disorder characterized by unusually small nose that appears 'beak shaped' due to the absence (aplasia) or underdevelopment (hypoplasia) of the nostrils (nasal alae), abnormally small, malformed primary (deciduous) teeth and misshapen or absent secondary (permanent) teeth, he...