This paper addresses the problem of developing an automated system for postmortem identification using dental records. The Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS) can be used by law enforcement agencies to locate missing persons using databases of dental x-rays. Currently, this search and identification process is carried out manually, which makes it very time-consuming and unreliable. In...

Introduction: The effect of education on esthetic perception is still unclear. This study aims to compare the perception of smile esthetics, under various conditions, among general and specialist dentists. Materials and Methods: A photograph of a woman’s smile was digitally altered using a software image editing program. Alterations were made tothe dental midline, anterior gingival displ...

The heart rate variability is a useful method to assess cardiac autonomic modulation in patients undergoing dental procedures, because knowledge of physiological conditions provides greater security to the professional as well as the possibility of a better plan treatment to patient benefit. The aim of our study was to describe the association between cardiac autonomic control and dental variab...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Water fluoridation is one of the methods for prevention of dental caries. The purpose of this study was to review water fluoridation in the world and in Iran, and its effectiveness in reported literature. METHODS: This paper is not a systematic review, but reviews the literature. “Water fluoridation” was used as a keyword for searching (electronic and hand search) in special...

introduction: content based image retrieval (cbir) is a method of image searching and retrieval in a  database. in medical applications, cbir is a tool used by physicians to compare the previous and current  medical images associated with patients pathological conditions. as the volume of pictorial information  stored in medical image databases is in progress, efficient image indexing and retri...

Information on the morphological changes of mandibular on dental panoramic image is needed to detect various diseases, especially osteoporosis. Measure automatically the width of cortical bone is one of the measurement problems due to uneven illumination and noise disturbance of the image.This paper proposes a new system that can automatically measure the width of cortical bone along the sample...