Introduction: Halitosis is a common and devastating condition, which may affect up to 1/3 of the population. It can be classified either as genuine halitosis, pseudohalitosis, or halitophobia. Genuine halitosis is more common and usually related to an organic pathology such as periodontitis. Malodour molecules such as sulfur compounds that arise from bacterial interactions generate the basis of...

A standard correction for random guessing on multiple-choice examinations was implemented prospectively in an Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology course for second-year dental students. The correction was a weighted scoring formula for points awarded for correct answers, incorrect answers, and unanswered questions such that the expected gain in the multiple-choice examination score due to random g...

1. School of Clinical Dentistry. University of Sheffield. Sheffield S10 2TA. UK. ([email protected]) 2. Cancer Dentistry, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles CA 3. Department of Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Al-Farabi College for Dentistry and Nursing, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 4. Department of Pathology. University of Chicago. USA 5....

Scraped (exfoliative) cytology is a simple and harmless procedure, which has been a controversial technique according to its real validity in oral pathology. Lately it has re-emerged due to its application in oral precancer and cancer as a diagnostic and predictive method as well as for monitoring patients. New diagnostic techniques have been developed, such as "brush biopsy" and multiple molec...

A. Santoro1,2, G. Pannone1, S. Papagerakis5, R. Serpico3, A. Guida3, L. Lo Muzio4 and P. Bufo1 1Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Pathological Anatomy and Cytopathology, University of Foggia, Foggia, 2Department of Surgical Sciences, Institute of Pathological Anatomy, University of Bari, Bari, 3Department of Oral Pathology, Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, Second University of Napoli, N...

Introduction: Few studies on benign soft tissue tumors of oral cavity have been conducted in an Iranian population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of the benign soft tissue tumors of the oral cavity in three central pathology centers of Rasht, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, all benign soft tissue tumors of the oral cavity, were retrieved fro...

Children can exhibit a wide variety of oral pathologies, such as oral lesions, bone lesions, tumors, cysts and cutaneous lesions. Different techniques have been described for the treatment of these lesions, but all of them are invasive. This paper presents a series of cases that demonstrate the clinical efficacy of cryosurgery as an alternative to invasive surgical treatments of the most common...

The analysis of oral pathologies is routinely a part of bioarcheological and paleopathological investigations. Oral health, while certainly interesting by itself, is also potentially informative about general or systemic health. Numerous studies within modern populations have shown associations between oral pathologies and other diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer,...

This research is a comparative analysis of oral health from three historic AfricanAmerican cemeteries in Georgia. The Area 1 (9CH1168), Area 2 (9CH875) and the Avondale (9BI164) cemeteries were excavated and relocated from 2008-2010. The aggregate population consists of 486 individuals, spanning pre-and-post-Reconstruction eras. Statistical and bioarchaeological techniques are used to address t...