tartar but the latter in the first place is purely a deposit of lime salts from saliva. On pp. 56 and 57 he states that the carbohydrate eating Indians are freer from caries than meat-eating Europeans. This may be true, but it is not the meat portion of European diet that causes caries, but the various other patent and manufactured foods that they eat. On the other hand the tremendous prevalenc...

Comment The firstfactor that can be assessed from the medical histories of these patients is the side of the dental procedure. This may be important as three out of the four cases had an ipsilateral hearing loss, though the site (upper or lower) is evidently not important. Both age and sex are irrelevant, and the form of anaesthesia cannot play a prime role as three patients had local anaesthes...

Continuous oral anticoagulant therapy has been used to decrease the risk of thromboembolism for more than half a century, prolonging the lives of thousands of patients. Many physicians recommend interrupting continuous anticoagulant therapy for dental surgery to prevent hemorrhage. In reviewing the available literature, there are no well-documented cases of serious bleeding problems from dental...

oral surgery in patients with bleeding disorders is associated with a high risk of bleeding during and after surgery. this article is aimed to present the case of an eight-year-old girl suffering from severe fanconi anemia with pancytopenia who underwent a dental extraction. the hemostatic effect of local administration of tranexamic acid in combination with a primary suture seems to be extreme...

introduction : due to the increased prevalence of medically compromised patients who require dental treatments, it is a crucial task for dentists and dental specialists to prepare themselves for emergent professional situations. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of different medical problems among a population of patients admitted to a dental educational center. materials and...

Chief complaints in the dental clinic are a series of that patient presents with order severity needs urgent attention. The knowledge chief enables clinician to focus appropriately on area challenge treat his patient’s immediate complaint and plan preventive management. This is retrospective study cases presented at Dental Maxillofacial Surgery department State House Clinic from 2014 2021.

We present a case of odontogenic maxillary sinusitis whose sinonasal symptomatology was thought to be the consequence of a previous midfacial trauma. The patient was admitted to the Clinic of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery after more than 10 years of exacerbations of sinonasal symptoms, which began to plague soon after a facial contusion. We decided to perform CT of paranasal sinuses, and despi...

1 DDS, MSc, Post-graduation Program in Dentistry, Estácio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Oral Medicine, Brazilian Dental Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). 2 DDS, MSc, Stomatology and Oral Surgery, Estácio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (DDS, MSc, Stomatology and Oral Surgery, Estácio de Sá University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). 3 DDS, MSc, Oral Medicine, Brazilian Dental ...