Vestibuloplasty involves a series of surgical procedures designed to restore alveolar ridge height by lowering the muscles attached to the buccal, labial, and lingual aspects of the jaws. The technique is indicated in cases of insufficient vestibular depth that may result from atrophy of the alveolar ridge and/or high attachment of muscle or movable mucosa. This article focuses on a carbon diox...

Liversidge and colleagues developed a method for predicting the age of immature skeletal remains based on the length of developing teeth. This quantitative method combines dental data from both jaws, except for the permanent lateral incisor, and because there are reasons to suspect that these two types of data are not identical and should not be combined, it raises concerns regarding the accura...

ally the jaws became locked up completely, and he could take nourishment with difficulty. The ordinary run of medicines proving ineffectual, I tried hypodermic injections of eserine sulphas in grain doses. The effect was marvellous; for after two or three injections the tonic spasmodic condition of the body became less marked, the intervals between the clonic spasms increased, and the stiffness...

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a parallel programming environment called JAWS (Java Work Stealer). JAWS is implemented as a user-level Java library which schedules user threads over a network of workstations using a Work Stealer algorithm. The goal of JAWS is to enable programmers to write cross-platform parallel programs that run seamlessly on a network of workstati...

Panoramic radiographs provide proper information for most oral surgery procedures panning, for the evaluation of orthodontic treatments progress, for growth and development of children follow up and for oral health surveys in specific populations. Furthermore, the panoramic imaging allows the complete visualization of dental and bone anatomic landmarks and structure in the maxilla and mandible ...

Although surgery still is the most important treatment modality in the management of head and neck cancer, radiotherapy is increasingly being used. Consequently, the majority of head and neck cancer patients are at risk of developing osteoradionecrosis of the jaws, which is the most serious and important complication of radiotherapy. This review presents the etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis...

In recent years, indications for endosseous dental implants have been extended to include partially edentulous jaws with areas of limited bone density and bone volume. Wide-diameter implants are particularly well suited for these situations. The purpose of this paper was to report on 98 consecutively placed 5-mm-diameter implants without smooth surface collars. Eight implants failed-6 at second...

Bisphosphonate is used widely for osteoporosis treatment, but a rising concern is the risk of osteonecrosis after long-term bisphosphonate use. Such cases are increasing, suggesting a need for research to prevent and treat bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of jaws. A 63-year-old female took bisphosphonate (Fosamax(®)) for four years for treatment of osteoporosis and stopped medication two mo...

OBJECTIVE To describe the role of routine radiographic examination of clinically healthy completely edentulous jaws prior to fabrication of the first set of complete dentures. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective descriptive study. SETTINGS The departments of Conservative and Prosthetic Dentistry, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine/Oral Pathology, Dental Maxillofacial Radiolo...

Distraction osteogenesis (DO) is a surgical process in which two bony segments are gradually separated so new soft tissue and bone will form between them by applying tension through a fixation device. There are three phases to this process: latency phase, distraction phase, and consolidation phase. The technique was originally applied to long bones but in recent years the method has been adapte...