statement of problem: tongue thrust and/or its consequent swallowing pattern are amongst the parafunctional habits that have always been considered as etiological factors for dental disorders by different investigators. purpose: the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of tongue thrusting and the incidence of periodontal disorders associated with this habit among patients referre...

we herein report a case of ventral side of tongue lipoma in a 60-year old man who referred to our department with a mass at the right ventral side of his tongue that had existed there for an unknown period of time. clinical examination revealed a yellowish nodular lesion measuring 1 cm in diameter. histological examination showed mature adipocytes and varying size vessels between lobules of the...

  Tongue base lesions have a diverse and extensive etiology. One of the benign tongue base lesions is schwannoma. Schwannoma and neurofibroma are two tumors of the peripheral nerves originating in the nerve sheaths. Schwannoma account for just over 1% of benign tumors which have been reported in the ora...

Introduction: Among different kinds of oral cavity cancers, the frequency of tongue cancer occurrence is more significant. Brachytherapy is the most common method to cure tongue cancers. Long sources are used in different techniques of tongue brachytherapy. The objective of this study is to asses the dose distribution around long sources, comparing different radioisotopes as brachytherapy sourc...

similar to a collection of flowers (Fig.2). They were marked by intense glucagon immunostaining. The findingswere consistentwith the recently recognized entity GCA. Mutation analysis of the tissue samples for MEN1, VHL, and p27 genes was unsuccessful because of the poor preservation of DNA within the pancreatic tissue. GCA and GCA-like entities have rarely been reported. In GCA there is no soli...

tongue base lesions have a diverse and extensive etiology. one of the benign tongue base lesions is schwannoma. schwannoma and neurofibroma are two tumors of the peripheral nerves originating in the nerve sheaths. schwannoma account for just over 1% of benign tumors which have been reported in the oral cavity and base of the tongue and with regard to its involved area in the oral cavity is very...

introduction: 90% of the tumors in the head and neck are squamous-cell carcinomas (hnscc), which have overall 5- year survival rate between 50% -60%. cd44 has been shown to be associated with the prognosis.  materials and methods: biopsy specimens of 51 patients with oral tongue scc were evaluated by immunohistochemistry (ihc) for the cd44 antibody.  results: there was no significant correlatio...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the light and electron microscopic structure of the tongue in white-eared bulbul (pycnonotus leucotis). six adult white-eared bulbul (3 males and 3 females) in shahrekord district were used in the investigation. samples of the apex, body and root of the tongue were prepared routinely for light and electron microscopic study. results showed that th...