Aim: To investigate the prevalence of eight morphological and numerical anomalies in the primary dentition of southern Chinese and to compare the prevalences with those from different ethnic groups. Materials and Methods: The material used in the study consisted of plaster casts and standardized panalipse radiographs collected from 936 randomly selected 5-year-old children (493 males and 443 fe...

Restorative and endodontic procedures have been recently developed in an attempt to preserve the vitality of dental pulp after exposure to external stimuli, such as caries infection or traumatic injury. When damage to dental pulp is reversible, pulp wound healing can proceed, whereas irreversible damage induces pathological changes in dental pulp, eventually requiring its removal. Nonvital teet...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the frequency of developmental dental anomalies in the Indian population. METHODS This prospective study was conducted over a period of 1 year and comprised both clinical and radiographic examinations in oral medicine and radiology outpatient department. Adult patients were screened for the presence of dental anomalies with appropriate radiographs. A comprehensive clini...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of irrigating agents on push-out bond strength of resin postcemented with various adhesive systems at different radicular dentin sections. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty single-rooted premolar teeth were root canal treated, subsequently decorated at cementoenamel junction. The endodontic postspace was irrigated with 5.25% sodium hyp...

In this paper, we intend to present the results of extended simulation study of the family of the radar image (RI) formation algorithms that employ the recently developed and investigated fused Bayesian-regularization (FBR) paradigm for high-resolution reconstruction of the spatial spectrum pattern (SSP) of the wavefield sources distributed in the remotely sensed environment. The FBR methodolog...

Double tooth is a dental anomaly consequent to fusion of two or more teeth or gemination of a single tooth. This report describes a unique case of double tooth in relation to a mandibular lateral incisor exhibiting the presence of four root canals. The role of conventional radiography and advanced three-dimensional imaging techniques in the better assessment of complex root canal systems and th...

We investigated the antifungal activity of fused Mannich ketone (FMK) congeners and two of their aminoalcohol derivatives. In particular, FMKs with five-membered saturated rings were shown to have minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC90s) ranging from 0.8 to 6 µg/mL toward C. albicans and the closely related C. parapsilosis and C. krusei while having reduced efficacy toward C. glabrata and almo...

This paper describes an appliance to replace prematurely lost maxillary anterior teeth. A review of the literature is given. The prosthesis is different from previous appliances in its use of intraorally placed composite-filled celluloid crown forms. This allows for superior control of both esthetics and functional occlusal relationships. A case presentation is given describing laboratory and o...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Bruxism is defined as a habitual nonfunctional forceful contact between occlusal tooth surfaces. In younger children bruxism may be a consequence of the masticatory neuromuscular system immaturity. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of bruxism and investigate the relationship between occlusal factors and bruxism among preschool children. MATERIALS AND METHO...