Current methods of measurement of proprioceptive function depend on the ability to detect passive movement (kinaesthesia) or the awareness of joint position (joint position sense, JPS). However, reports of proprioceptive function in healthy and pathological joints are quite variable, which may be due to the different methods used. We have compared the validity of several frequently used methods...

natural teeth," to find that the majority of the public still associate their work with the extraction of teeth, and the supply of artificial substitutes. This ignorance will not be considered so strange, as the same estimate ot the scope of dentistry is held, I regret to say, by far the larger proportion of the medical profession. Mr. F. N. Pedley, Dental Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, in a recent...

statins are used as cholesterol-lowering drugs by many patients and have been recently shown to affect bone metabolism. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of atorvastatinon on orthodontic tooth movement (otm) in rats.thirty-six adult male sprague-dawley rats were randomly divided into three groups of 12 samples each. group a, served as control with no medication while groups b an...

The mandibular second molar impaction is a rare dental anomaly with a very challenging treatment. Although there are some treatment modalities, often the proper option is surgical exposure and orthodontically assisted eruption with a high rate of success depending on the appropriate appliance design, which assures a good control of the tooth movement with minimum side effects. A case report of ...