Objectives: To review dento-facial evolution based on fossil data, comparative anatomy, developmental biology and genetics. Modern human reveals profound insight into the technical biological challenges faced by clinicians in daily practice of dentistry. Materials Methods: An analysis literature is presented to further explain evolutionary forces that have shaped hominins. Results: morphologica...

Identification of the deceased is important for social and legal framework. One can make out the identity through the evidences available from the corpse or utilize methods to make the best use of the biologic features unique to that individual. Traditionally finger-print method is the most acceptable method of identification. However, because of difficulty in retrieving these records as they a...

For dento-oral rehabilitation of edentulous (toothless) patients, speech intelligibility is an important criterion. 28 persons read a standardized text once with and once without wearing complete dentures. Six experienced raters evaluated the intelligibility subjectively on a 5-point scale and the voice on the 4-point Roughness-Breathiness-Hoarseness (RBH) scales. Objective evaluation was perfo...

Common complications of dento-alveolar trauma are pulp necrosis, pulp canal obliteration, periapical pathosis and root resorption. Different types of root resorption have been identified with traumatic injuries. Repair-related (surface), infection-related (inflammatory), ankylosis-related (osseous replacement) or extraradicular invasive cervical resorption are among the most common. Recent deve...

Introduction: In orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning it is an important goal to reach the best functional and esthetic results. However, during treatment planning the size of the teeth is a frequently ignored factor. The discrepancies of the mesiodistal widths of the teeth can be examined with the Bolton analysis. Our aim is to investigate whether the results described by Bolton are ap...

In a predominant amount of cases in orthodontics and orthognathic surgery, from the removal of wisdom teeth or cysts up to osteotomies, two-dimensional imaging is the first, and often the only method of the diagnostic process. However, without knowing the exact course of the mandibular nerve, the risk of an unintended lesion during an intervention is considerably high. This becomes even more re...

This report details the use of zygomatic oncology osseointegrated implants to support and retain a maxillary obturator in a 13-year-old male patient who underwent a right-sided hemi-maxillectomy (Brown Class 2b) (Brown and Shaw, Lancet Oncol 11:1001-8, 2010) for a myxoid spindle cell carcinoma. At the time of maxillary resection, two zygomatic oncology implants were inserted into the right zygo...

RIEGER'S dysgenesis mesodermalis iridis et corneae, caused by a faulty differentiation in the anterior segment, is not limited to the mesodermal structures of the eye, but demonstrates a range of ectodermal anomalies as well. This is why Hagedoorn (1937) suggested the term "dysgenesis mesostromalis", stressing the frequent occurrence of ectodermal developmental anomalies of the iris and lens, c...

Mouthguards provide protection from concussion, dento-alveolar injury, and fracture of the facial skeleton. It is also known that some facial skeletal forms do predispose patients to dental trauma. Facial profile type has a significant effect on breathing and airway patency. Many elite athletes refrain from wearing mouthguards during contact sports because of a belief that they make breathing d...

Objective. The purpose is to outline the etiology, prevalence and potential consequences of dentaltrauma. Materialandmethods.MicroelectronicexaminationofMedline(PubMed),Cochrane,SSCI(SocialCitation Index), SCI (Science Citation Index) records from 1995 present, using following searchwords:toothinjuries,toothtrauma,traumatizedteeth,dentaltrauma,dento-alveolartrauma,oraltrauma,epidemiology,etiolo...