Introdouction: Age estimation is an important issue in forensics, particularly for treatment planning and determining patients’ rights. Radiographic evaluation of the third molar developmental stage is a significant criterion for age estimation. The pattern of tooth development is largely heritable and varies from race to race. The objective of this study was to radiographically examine and com...

The strict definition of the Ramsay Hunt syndrome is peripheral facial nerve palsy accompanied by an erythematous vesicular rash on the ear (zoster oticus) or in the mouth. J Ramsay Hunt, who described various clinical presentations of facial paralysis and rash, also recognised other frequent symptoms and signs such as tinnitus, hearing loss, nausea, vomiting, vertigo, and nystagmus. He explain...

The SNARC effect specifically relates small magnitudes to the left hand side and larger magnitudes to the right hand side (e.g. Dehaene et al., 1990; Dehaene et al., 1993). It is certain that cultural characteristics define the SNARC effect: In western cultures small and large numbers are coded in a left-right direction while in Arabic countries magnitude information is coded from right to left...