OBJECTIVES To assess the number of parents who visited community pharmacies in London seeking pain medications for their children's pain and specifically for oral pain, to identify which health services parents contacted before their pharmacy visit and to estimate the cost to the National Health Service (NHS) when children with oral pain who visit pharmacies also see health professionals outsid...

Diego Lops, Eriberto Bressan, Gianluca Pisoni, Niccolò Cea, Boris Corazza, and Eugenio Romeo 1 Department of Prosthodontics, S. Paul Hospital Dental Clinic, School of Dentistry, University of Milan, 20142 Milan, Italy 2 Department of Implant Dentistry, Padova University Institute of Clinical Dentistry, 35020 Padova, Italy 3 Department of Implant Dentistry, S. Paul Hospital Dental Clinic, School...

Osman Sami AĞLARCI1*, Enes GÜNGÖR2, Mustafa ALTUNSOY3, Bilge NUR3, Evren OK4 and Mehmet ÇOLAK2 1Department of Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Sifa University, Turkey 2Department of Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Dicle University, Turkey 3Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Sifa University, Turkey 4Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistr...

1. Master, Dentistry Doctorate Students, Collective Health Area, School of Dentistry of Piracicaba – UNICAMP. Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. 2. Doctor, Assistant Professor, School of Dentistry – Federal University of Pará. Belém, PA, Brazil. 3. Doctor, Professor of Biostatistics, School of Dentistry/UNICAMP. Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. 4. Doctor, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, School of Dentis...

Dear Editor, There have been a rising trend in publishing dental science articles in medical journals. 1 Bibliometric and scientometric information regarding the trends in dental science articles in medical journals from India is evident in the literature. 1 More recently, the publication trends of oral pathology articles published in a pathology journal from Iran were reported. 2 This study ai...

The small number of minorities in the field of dentistry is a serious concern. While the United States as a whole has become more diverse with minorities making up 25 percent of the total U.S. population, only a handful (14 percent) are currently practicing dentistry, and only 11 percent entering dental schools are underrepresented minorities. Pipeline, Profession, & Practice: Community-Based D...

laser technology has been recently introduced into the dental field with the idea to replace drilling. having a less painful first dental experience by the use of modern instruments like laser can be an efficient preventive and therapeutic strategy in pediatric dentistry. pedodontists need to learn the new less invasive technologies and adopt them in their routine practice. this study aimed to ...

Human identification during mass disasters using the stereotyped techniques such as fingerprint analysis is a cumbersome task. With a view to overcome this predicament, dental evidence of the deceased has gained importance in the recent years. Various branches of dentistry have augmented forensic research through innumerable scientific contributions. The following narrative review of literature...