This epidemiological survey was conducted to find features of degenerative diseases associated with loss of teeth in the elderly. One hundred sixty-seven elderly (> or = 60 years old) people from local government health centers in East Jakarta, Indonesia were included in the study. The degenerative diseases (DM, hypertension, heart disease) were determined by physical examination, laboratory te...

Materials and Methods: The subjects were 36 systemically healthy, non-smoking patients (34-66 years old). All patients presented moderate-to-advanced chronic periodontitis and had at least 5 teeth and 2 pocket sites with probing depth ≥ 5 mm in each quadrant and bone loss. Then, they were randomly distributed to 3 different groups. 1. conventional quadrant-wise mechanical debridement (QMD): sup...

Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa of Hallopeau-Siemens (RDEB-HS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by trauma-induced blisters, milia, acral pseudosyndactyly, and scarring. RDEB-HS patients present with a distinct pattern of oral involvement consisting of microstomia, ankyloglossia, vestibule obliteration and dental caries. In this review, we describe the orodental manifestations...

Two surveys of dental disease in the North Carolina population were conducted fourteen years apart (1963 and 1977). The data collection methods were carefully standardized and were shown to be directly comparable. The results provide information on caries (DMFT), periodontal disease (PI), and oral hygiene (OHI-S) in the general population and in subgroups according to age, race, sex, geographic...

An epidemiological survey of dental caries and oral hy­ giene o f Afrikaansand English-speaking pupils was undertaken in upper and lower socio-economic areas. Dental caries affected 99,7 per cent o f the pupils (mean age 16,3 years). In general Afrikaans-speaking pupils had significantly higher mean and median DMFTscores than English-speaking pupils, although this is not clini­ cally relevant. ...

The degrees of pairs of terms applied to color sequences, such as natural-unnatural, have been investigated previously. Two terms, natural and complex (or unnatural), were described by Ohi & Kawasaki (1996), where after several terms were commonly used to describe the characteristics and associative meanings of colors (Sivik, 1997). In previous studies by this author, the various effects of tem...

Gingivitis and periodontitis are chronic inflammatory diseases of the periodontal tissue in humans caused by both environmental and genetic factors. The human cytokine genes that regulate the immune response may play an important role in the development of these chronic inflammatory diseases. The aim of this study is to analyze the allele status of eight human cytokine genes and to associate it...