PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of differences in the retainer design on load on abutment teeth and displacement of the denture base in mandibular unilateral extension base partial removable dental prosthesis to determine the optimum design for a mechanically appropriate retainer. METHODS Three models were used. Each incorporating a removable denture with differen...

E-mail [email protected] Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is a disorder of breathing during sleep characterised by prolonged partial airway obstruction and/ or intermittent complete obstruction (obstructive apnoea) that interrupts normal ventilation during sleep and disrupts normal sleep pattern, affecting about 2–3% of children [1, 2]. Although adenotonsillar hypertrophy remai...

The discovery of an early Upper Paleolithic human burial at the Abrigo do Lagar Velho, Portugal, has provided evidence of early modern humans from southern Iberia. The remains, the largely complete skeleton of a approximately 4-year-old child buried with pierced shell and red ochre, is dated to ca. 24,500 years B.P. The cranium, mandible, dentition, and postcrania present a mosaic of European e...

Managing cranio-mandibular disorders can prove to be difficult as the therapeutic protocols for them multiply and sometimes seem to contradict themselves, with splints, some types of surgical procedures, abstention from some types of mastication, postural exercises, occlusal equilibration, kinesitherapy, and behavioral psychology all having been proposed by ardent adherents as the ideal treatme...

BACKGROUND Ameloblastomas are rarely found in pregnant women, with only two cases reported in the scientific literature. We report the first case of ameloblastoma in a pregnant woman in Brazil. CASE PRESENTATION A 27-year-old white woman, 12-weeks pregnant, presented with a large mass in her right posterior mandible. Panoramic radiography revealed a lesion involving her mandibular right first...

Gingival recession is displacement of the soft tissue margin apically leading to root surface exposure. Tooth malpositions, high muscle attachment, frenal pull have been associated with gingival tissue recession. Occlusal trauma is defined as injury resulting in tissue changes within the attachment apparatus as a result of occlusal forces. Trauma from occlusion may cause a shift in tooth positi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the etiopathogenesis, clinical features, therapeutic options, and surgical approaches for removal of ectopic third molars in the mandibular condyle. STUDY DESIGN MEDLINE search of articles published on ectopic third molars in the mandibular condyle from 1980 to 2011. 14 well-documented clinical cases from the literature were evaluated together with a new clinical case p...

The aim of the present investigation was to study craniomandibular development during growth hormone (GH) therapy in nine girls and one boy, aged between 7.3 and 16 years, who exhibited pronounced growth reduction after total body irradiation (TBI) and bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Age- and sex-matched healthy children with normal dentofacial development constituted the control material. T...

A 17 year old patient reported to the outpatient department with the chief complaint of unesthetic facial appearance with progressively increasing size of both the jaws. Although initially the condition appeared to be insignificant with the condition apparent as the skeletal class III facial appearance and mandibular prognathism (Figure 1a & 1b). Also intraorally angle’s class III molar relatio...