Human eruption is a unique developmental process in the organism. The aetiology or the mechanism behind eruption has never been fully understood and the scientific literature in the field is extremely sparse. Human and animal tissues provide different possibilities for eruption analyses, briefly discussed in the introduction. Human studies, mainly clinical and radiological, have focused on norm...

INTRODUCTION Our aim was to investigate 8 years of vertical changes of the gingival margin and tooth displacement of maxillary molars and incisors in adolescents and adults. METHODS Twenty-five adolescents and 10 adults were included in this study, with dental casts taken 2 and 10 years after orthodontic treatment. The gingival contour of the teeth was traced digitally using calibrated photog...

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1Naveen Manuja, 2Rajni Nagpal, 3Mousumi Singh, 4Seema Chaudhary 1Reader, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Kothiwal Dental College, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 2Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Kothiwal Dental College, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 3Professor and Head, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Kothiwal Dental College, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 4Professor, Dep...

Background: Traumatic injury to primary teeth is a very common phenomenon as kids are often involved in facial trauma, and because the central incisors hold a prominent position in the facial profile. The standard of treatment is to extract the teeth if severely mobile or to leave them if stable. Of interest is the effect of the injury to the developing permanent dentition. These effects can ra...

Lower second premolars account for approximately 24 per cent of impactions, excluding third molars, even though most reports in the literature relating to impacted teeth address the maxillary canine, with relatively few reports on the lower second premolar. Conservative management involves surgical exposure of the crown, however, subsequent premolar eruption is unpredictable. A case is describe...

A significant body of research evidence (70+ studies) available since the 1940s (Short et al. 1944) suggests that fluoride delays the eruption of teeth, thereby merely delaying the development of cavities. This delay has been reported to be anywhere from several months (Tseng et al, 1989) to 2 years (Campagna et al, 1995). This delay in the onset of caries due to a delay in eruption of teeth wi...

A Dentigerous Cyst (DC) is the most common developmental odontogenic cyst that mostly happens in patients between 10 to 30 years of age. It is usually completely asymptomatic and is discovered on a routine radiographic examination or to evaluate the reason for an erupted tooth. Radiographically, this cyst usually presents a well-defined unilocular radiolucency attached to CEJ of an unerupted to...