The teaching activity of training of the students has a decisive role in the medical activities developing a competitive future for the dental practitioner. The modern restorative dentistry is developing the natural in all aspects, integrating the substitute, the flawless into the dental somato facial equilibrium. These issues are analyzed in terms of options for aspects of classic or modern me...

Received 13/07/92; revised 01/12/92; accepted 20/04/93 * Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthetic Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Saud University ** Lecturer, Department of Restorative Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, P.O. Box 60169, Riyadh 11545, Saudi Arabia. Address reprint requests to: Dr. M. A. Abdullah * Teledyne Hanau, P.O. Box 203,80 Sonwil D...

The purpose of this study was to determine the treatment preferences amongst dental faculty and dental students for either retention of teeth by endodontic and restorative treatment or extraction and implant placement. A survey of 134 general dentistry faculty and 253 senior (fourth-year) dental students was conducted in a university college of dentistry. Participants completed a survey consist...

Clinical Assistant Professor Joanna Kempler, DDS, MS Department of Endodontics, Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Baltimore, MD, USA. 3460 Old Washington Road, Suite 102, Waldorf, MD, 20602, USA. e-mail: [email protected] this article describes a clinical case in which a moderately compromised maxillary arch is restored with a fixed implant su...

As expected, technologic innovations in the field of dentistry have been extensive in recent years. Most important advances have been made in the use of computers, telecommunication technology, digital diagnostic imaging services, devices and software for analysis and follow-up. Nowadays, it is hard to imagine a dentistry clinic without computerized patient registry, electronic invoicing, digit...

Introduction New digital impression methods are currently available in the market, and soon the long-awaited dream of sparing patients one of the most unpleasant experiences in dental clinics, the taking of dental impressions, will be replaced by intraoral digital scanning. Both in orthodontics and restorative area (prosthodontics and restorative dentistry in particular), the use of plaster mod...

Modern reconstructive methods of dentistry (stopping, restoration, and prosthetics with different types of orthopedic constructions) require detailed examination of the anatomical structure of the teeth crowns, especially examination of the knowledge about the relief of masticatory surface. That is why, we conducted a detailed examination of the features of odontoglyphics of molars, according t...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the demands and needs for dental care and to identify the level of dental and periodontal status in patients of different age groups visiting the Faculty of Dentistry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. METHODS A total of 1000 first-visit patients (517 female and 483 male) were examined and questioned. The main complaint of each patient was recorded and considered to...

The definition of “health” as provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) points out that this status is not only given by the absence of disease and infirmity – but that social well-being is an inherent parameter for a healthy subject. Within medicine and dentistry, individuals with ectodermal dysplasia represent a very special group of patients. Diagnostics and treatment planning have to ...