Dental caries is one of the most widely prevalent infectious diseases in the world. It affects more than half of the world's population. The current treatment for necrotic dental pulp tissue arising from dental caries is root canal therapy. This treatment results in loss of tooth sensitivity and vitality making it prone for secondary infections. Over the past decade, several tissue-engineering ...

BACKGROUND Severe dental caries and the treatment thereof are reported to affect growth and well-being of young children. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of extraction of severely decayed pulpally involved primary teeth on weight and height in underweight preschool Filipino children. METHODS Underweight preschool Filipino children with severe dental decay had their pulpa...

BACKGROUND Loss of anterior permanent teeth can have a detrimental effect on children's quality of life and the therapeutic approaches are always a challenge. From a physiologic and psychological standpoint, the use of dental implants has several advantages in replacing missing teeth. However, several studies have shown that conventional implants are not indicated in patients that are still gro...

Current and future dental school graduates are increasingly likely to choose a non-traditional dental practice-a group practice managed by a dental service organization or a corporate practice with employed dentists-for their initial practice experience. In addition, the growth of non-traditional practices, which are located primarily in major urban areas, could accelerate the movement of denti...

Background: Biological age markers are a crucial indicator whether children decelerated in growth tempo. Skeletal maturation is the standard measure. Yet, it relies on exposing to x-radiation. Dental eruption potential, but highly debated, radiation free alternative. 
 Objectives: We assess interrelationship between dental and other maturational markers. hypothesize that correlates with bo...

Predicting dental development in individuals, especially children, is important evaluating maturity and determining the factors that influence of teeth growth jaws. Dental can be accelerated patients with an skeletal rate related to pattern as a child. The age (DA) individual essential dentist for planning treatment relation maxillofacial growth. A deep-learning-based regression model was devel...

The interaction between tongue size/volume and craniofacial skeletal growth is essential for understanding the mechanism of specific types of malocclusion and objectively measuring outcomes of various surgical and/or orthodontic treatments. Currently available information on this interaction is limited. This study was designed to examine how tongue body volume reduction affects craniofacial ske...

Mammalian teeth harbour mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which contribute to tooth growth and repair. These dental MSCs possess many in vitro features of bone marrow-derived MSCs, including clonogenicity, expression of certain markers, and following stimulation, differentiation into cells that have the characteristics of osteoblasts, chondrocytes and adipocytes. Teeth and their support tissues pr...

The occlusion of the teeth, at maturity, depends upon the integrated growth of the dental, skeletal and soft tissues of both jaws. Genes determine the maximum growth of which each individual and organ is capable, but all growth is liable to environmental limitations. Therefore, in considering the causes of dental irregularities and malocclusions, genetic direction, growth potential, the develop...

This study describes and compares the growth and maturation of idiopathic growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) and evaluates the potential effects of growth hormone therapy. The sample includes 40 idiopathic growth-hormone-deficient children grouped according to duration of growth hormone replacement therapy. Somatic and craniofacial development, skeletal maturation and dental maturation were evalu...