Allergic contact dermatitis caused by ranitidine is rare. Most cases of allergic contact dermatitis caused by ranitidine have been related to occupational exposure during the pharmaceutical manufacturing process (1–5). We report a case of allergic contact dermatitis caused by ranitidine hydrochloride (HCl) in a veterinary medicament. Interestingly, there have been two recent reports of allergic...

Pulpotomy therapy is the treatment of choice for cariously exposed vital primary molars. Controversies surrounding formocresol which enjoys good clinical success as a pulpotomy medicament has triggered the search for better alternatives. The objective of this narrative review is to provide an overview of the materials that have been studied as alternatives to formocresol to aid clinicians in ma...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to evaluate the intracanal bacterial reduction promoted by chemomechanical preparation using three different herbal extracts named Ocimum sanctum (OS), Cinnamomum zeylanicum (CZ), Syzygium aromaticum (SA) against Enterococcus faecalis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Root canals from extracted teeth were contaminated with Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212 for 7 days and...

Several papers have been published to illustrate the effectiveness of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) as a pulpotomy medicament. Most of these reports do not offer a critical assessment on the data quality. Therefore, this review evaluated whether the currently available evidence is of an appropriate quality to support the long-term effectiveness of MTA as a pulpotomy medicament in primary mol...

avulsion is a serious injury which causes damage to dental and supportive tissues, ranging from 1-16 % among dental injuries and it mostly occurs in maxillary incisors. this report presents a case of replantation of a traumatically avulsed central incisor. the left central incisor of an 8 year-old boy with open apex was avulsed and was left in unclean and dry conditions. tooth was replaced afte...

objectives: biomechanical preparation and irrigation with antimicrobial solutions are necessary to disinfect the root canal space. this in vitro study aimed to examine the antifungal effect of green tea extract on candida albicans biofilm formed on tooth substrate. materials and methods: minimum fungicidal concentration (mfc) and minimum inhibitory concentration at which 90% of the isolates wer...