COVID-19 became a pandemic because of its high-speed transmission via salivary and airborne droplet routes. Viruses can enter host cells through ACE-2 receptors in various human organs, including the oral cavity. The manifestations that arise include white plaque, ulceration, burning sensation, mucositis, depapillation tongue, dry mouth, halitosis, loss sense taste. Poor hygiene, comorbidities,...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to estimate the availability of dental literature between 1989 and 1998 in seven disciplines within pediatric dentistry by using a bibliometric analysis on MEDLINE and to compare the results to that for adolescents and adults. METHODS A search strategy was developed for each discipline incorporating dental vocabulary obtained from the MEDLINE Medical Subj...

surgical removal of impacted third molars is amongst the most common surgical procedures performed by oral and maxillofacial surgeons. every year many articles are published in different journals regarding different aspects in such surgeries. it is necessary to translate such vast amounts of data into simple and easily comprehensible sentences for the students of dentistry and oral surgery. thi...

Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic debilitating disease characterized by gradually increasing fibrosis of the oral cavity and pharynx, mainly the buccal mucosa, resulting in trismus. The highest incidence of oral submucous fibrosis is seen in South India due to various deleterious habits. In spite of the numerous medical modalities employed in the management of oral submucous fibrosis, occasi...

Pacéré as the demiurge of orature Not all unwritten literatures are oral literatures. They would more appropriately be referred to as “spoken literatures”, in the wider sense of literatures that use different means of communication (mouth, gestures, body movement, instruments). The dumb “speak” with signs. Pio Zirimu proposed the term “orature” to palliate the alleged contradiction in the phras...

Leprosy (Hansen's disease) is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (Hansen's bacillus). Oral manifestations occur in 20-60% of cases, usually in lepromatous leprosy, and are well documented. They may involve both the oral hard and soft tissues. Incidence of verrucous carcinoma/Ackerman's tumour developing in anogenital region and plantar surfaces of feet in lepromatous...

Lichen planus (LP) is a chronic autoimmune mucocutaneous disease that predominantly affects adults and occurs less frequently in the pediatric patients. Oral LP in childhood is a rare entity with very few cases cited in the literature. The objective of this paper is to contribute a clinically and histologically documented case of juvenile oral LP to the literature. Despite the fact of rare occu...

Lichen planus is a mucocutaneous disease that predominantly affects older patients and occurs much less frequently in the pediatric population. Furthermore, oral lichen planus is extremely rare in childhood with very few cases cited in the literature. The intention of this paper is to contribute two clinically and histologically documented cases of juvenile oral lichen planus cases to the liter...

OBJECTIVE To address the mouth as a site of structural inequalities looking through the lens of Aboriginal Australian experience. RESEARCH DESIGN This is a critical review of published literature relevant to our objective. Criteria for selection included articles on: the social context of oral and general health inequalities for Aboriginal Australians; Aboriginal perceptions and meanings of t...

Introduction: Metastatic lesions of the oral cavity are extremely rare, accounting for approximately 1% of all malignant oral tumors. The most common primary sources of metastatic tumors in the oral region are, from the most to the least common, the breast, lung, kidney, bone, and colon. Renal cell carcinoma accounts for nearly 3% of all adult malignancies. It usually metastasizes to the lungs,...