Introduction: Dental implant treatment is considered the gold standard today for elimination of tooth loss. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate level knowledge about dental treatments patients referred Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University Faculty Dentistry Prosthetic Clinic. Material and Method: A total 296 patients, 166 women 130 men, participated in study. The multiple choice standardized quest...

This study evaluated the two-year clinical outcomes of 3.1 mm diameter dental implants, immediately provisionalized and later restored using same-day dentistry, in 10 patients receiving 11 narrow-diameter (3.1 mm) single implants. Each implant was placed with a provisional crown after placement. At least 2 months placement, prefabricated titanium abutment an all-ceramic dentistry protocol. Clin...

In the management of head and neck cancer, dentistry has an important supportive role. Many anatomical and functional changes caused by surgery for the removal of intraoral tumors can be corrected or improved upon by prosthetic dentistry. The control of dental pathology contributes to the immediate and long-term success of tumor treatment and facilitates rehabilitation. Radiotherapy and loss of...

Patch test of dental alloys was conducted on dentists in the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Hiroshima University School of Dentistry. The positive rate of the first patch test in the test group was 47.1%, and that in the control group was 10.0%, showing a large difference between the two groups. Furthermore, a second patch test was conducted on those who showed a positive response together...

THIS report presents a method of determining the dimensional changes in gypsum dental products, which avoids the disadvantages of previous methods and which provides extreme sensitivity. As part of the program of research on the gypsum products used in dentistry, a preliminary study was made of various physical properties. This study, which included strength, thermal expansion, setting expansio...

The present study was undertaken to help plan future needs o f patients with head and neck defects in a maxillo­ facial prosthodontic service for the Witwatersrand-Vaal area. A questionnaire was sent to 100 patients who had been treated in the Maxillofacial Prosthetic Service o f the Department o f Prosthetic Dentistry o f the Oral and Den­ tal Teaching Hospital o f the Witwatersrand, Johannes­...

Avulsed teeth that are stored extraorally in a dry environment for >60 min generally develop replacement root resorption or ankylosis following their replantation due to the absence of a vital periodontal ligament on their root surface. One negative sequelae of such ankylosis is tooth infra-positioning and the local arrest of alveolar bone growth. Removal of an ankylosed tooth may be difficult ...

Recent advances in dentistry have enabled different treatment options in prosthetic dentistry, one of them is in relation to magnets which are available in small size and with strong attractive force. This magnets can be used for overdenture attachments which increases the stability of denture and reduces the lateral forces on abutment tooth. Rationale for tooth supported overdenture are to pre...

Ectodermal dysplasias (EDs) form a part of the complex group of rare congenital diseases, primarily observed as a result of the abnormal development of embryonic ectodermal derivatives. A 5-year-old male child reported to the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, with the typical features of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED), i.e., diff usely sparse hair, eyelashes and eyebr...

The loss of teeth has serious functional, esthetic disabilities, in addition to compromising the patients' quality of life. Currently, in the private sector, the status of prosthetic rehabilitation is only limited to anterior teeth due to esthetic reasons and rarely the posteriors. This could be called as inefficiency or lack of knowledge on part of few dental practitioners to understand and ex...