BACKGROUND Cleft lip and palate (CLP) is the most common orofacial congenital malformation in live births. CLP can occur individually or in combination with other congenital deformities. Affected patients experience a number of dental, aesthetic, speech, hearing, and psychological complications and have a higher incidence of severe dental conditions. The purpose of this study is to characterise...

This clinical report describes the delayed development of a maxillary second premolar. The premolar developed when the patient was between the ages of 12 and 16 years. The development of the tooth was discovered from a panoramic radiograph taken when the patient was 17 years, 1 month of age. Previous to this discovery, the tooth had been diagnosed as congenitally missing. The transition from th...

Wnt signaling regulates embryonic pattern formation and morphogenesis of most organs. Aberrations of regulation of Wnt signaling may lead to cancer. Here, we have used positional cloning to identify the causative mutation in a Finnish family in which severe permanent tooth agenesis (oligodontia) and colorectal neoplasia segregate with dominant inheritance. Eleven members of the family lacked at...

Iran J Pediatr; Vol 24 (No 4), Aug 2014 Published by: Tehran University of Medical Sciences (http://ijp.tums.ac.ir) Fig.1: Left. NeuN-immunonegative neurons in a pontine histological section of a SIDS victim dead at 2 months. Right. NeuN_immunopositivity in an equivalent section of a control case (late fetal death -38 gestational weeks) for comparison NeuN immunostaining. Magnification: 40× che...

BACKGROUND There has been no nationwide study in Japan on reasons for extraction of permanent teeth. This survey was aimed to determine the reasons for extraction of permanent teeth in Japan. METHODS Five thousand, one hudred and thirty-one dentists were selected by systematic selection from the 2004 membership directory of the Japan Dental Association. The dentists selected were asked to rec...

BACKGROUND with today's 21st century technological advancements, it is expected that individuals will either retain their natural teeth or obtain functional tooth replacements throughout their entire life. Modern dental therapies for the replacement of missing teeth largely utilize partial or complete dentures and titanium implants capped with prosthetic crowns. Although these prostheses serve ...

This paper introduces novel a two-phase permanent magnet BLDC (PMBLDC) motor with both an asymmetric tooth and an auxiliary tooth in order to improve the dead point, efficiency and torque ripple. To calculate the merits of introducing each of the asymmetric tooth and the auxiliary tooth, characteristic analysis is performed respectively using finite element method (FEM). To maximize performance...

The aim of this study was to assess the differences in eruption of permanent teeth (C, P1, P2 and M2) in a group of children with and without malocclusion. A sample of 1758 children (921 boys and 837 girls), aged 8-13 was randomly selected. The subjects were grouped by chronological age (11 groups) and by presence of malocclusion. Statistically significant differences were found for both, upper...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The first permanent molar is the first permanent tooth that erupted in 6-7-year-old and is very high risk for caries. Parent’s awareness has very important role in oral and dental health of children. The aim of this study was to assess the awareness of parents of 7-8-year-old children in Kerman about presence of the first permanent molar and concepts of preventive dentistry ...

The literature on radiolucent lesions in unerupted permanent teeth is reviewed with particular attention to etiology. A case is presented which demonstrates severe coronal destruction of a mandibular second permanent molar. Histological evidence also is presented to confirm diagnosis of external resorption. Based on previous literature and the results of this case, the authors conclude that the...