China is the most highly populated developing country. As with other scientific disciplines, dentistry (stomatology) is progressively growing since 1949 when the new China was founded. Due to the closing of the country to international discourse for several decades, international counterparts know very little about dentistry or stomatology, including the sub-discipline oral and maxillofacial su...

Detection of cfxA and cfxA2, the -Lactamase Genes of Prevotella spp., in Clinical Samples from Dentoalveolar Infection by Real-Time PCR Kaori Iwahara, Tomoari Kuriyama,* Satoshi Shimura, David W. Williams, Maki Yanagisawa, Kiyomasa Nakagawa, and Tadahiro Karasawa Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Department of Oral and Maxillof...

5 Department of Oral Cell Biology, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, VU University Medical Center/ACTA, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Interna...

BACKGROUND Cryotherapy (the application of ice for therapeutic purposes) is one of the most common treatment modalities used in the immediate management of acute soft tissue injury. Despite its widespread clinical use, the precise physiological responses to therapeutic cooling have not been fully elucidated, and effective evidence-based treatment protocols are yet to be established (BMC Musculo...

i ntroduction: the incidence and etiology of maxillofacial fractures vary widely between different countries. understanding the cause and pattern of these injuries can assist in establishing clinical and research priorities for more effective treatment and prevention of maxillofacial injuries. the study aimed to  evaluate  the  etiology  and  pattern  of  maxillofacial  fractures  in  trauma pa...

Dr. Howard A. Israel is an Associate Professor in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery and is a Diplomats of lite American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Dr. Israel is codirector of the TMD Facial Pain Clinic at Columbia University and is a member of the International Study Group on Anhroscopy of the Human Temporomandi...

Introduction: Patients with cleidocranial dysplasia commonly present with significant dental problems, such as retention of multiple deciduous teeth, impaction or delayed eruption of teeth and the presence of multiple Madhu P. Sivan1, Jayakumar K.2, Jayalakshmi P. S.3, N. Sruthi4 Affiliations: 1MDS, Provisional Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Government Medical College, ...