Dental Extractions Using Improvised Equipment

Dental extractions using improvised equipment.

Extracting a tooth is the final treatment for multiple dental problems. Persons who are not dentists, however, have little experience with tooth extractions. When a remote setting makes it impossible to send a patient for optimal dental treatment, the clinician may need to extract teeth, sometimes using improvised equipment. The following cases of two patients with three carious, painful molars...

Dabigatran and Dental Extractions

For more than 50 years, vitamin K antagonists have been the gold standard in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and in the prevention of their complications. In the last 5 years new anticoagulants dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban are rapidly implemented in the clinical practice, displacing Vit. K antagonists, due to numerous of advantages they have. Dabigatran is t...

Stability of orthodontic treatment and dental extractions

© 2017 Dental Press Journal of Orthodontics Dental Press J Orthod. 2017 May-June;22(3):9-10 9 Today’s orthodontics has substantially reduced the need for extractions. One of the reasons for this change in approach is based on the findings of studies published in the early 1980s by researchers at the University of Washington, who reported similar rates of teeth alignment relapse in cases treated...

Improvised Equipment in the Home Care of the Sick

Reasons for dental extractions in children.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the principal reason for primary tooth extraction and the tooth type most frequently extracted in children aged 3-13 years. METHODS The patients selected for this retrospective study were identified by analyzing dental records of children receiving treatment at Franciscan Children's Hospital & Rehabilitation Center, Boston, MA (FCH & RC). I...