OBJECTIVES Most studies on the provision of dental procedures have focused on Medicaid enrollees known to have inadequate access to dental care. Little information on private insurance enrollees exists. This study documents the rates of preventive, restorative, endodontic, and surgical dental procedures provided to children enrolled in Delta Dental of Wisconsin (DDWI) in Milwaukee. METHODS We...

Teeth with vertical root fracture (VRF) have complete or incomplete fractures that begin in the root and extend toward the occlusal surface. The most frequent causes of VRF originate from physical trauma, occlusal prematurity, inadequate endodontic treatment, and iatrogenic causes. Diagnose is difficult and delay can cause stomatognathic system problem. The purpose of this case report was to ev...

The mandibular premolars are located close to the mental foramina (Fig. 1). As such, various events affecting these teeth, such as odontogenic infection1 and orthodontic, endodontic, periodontal or surgical misadventure, may result in neurosensory disturbance of the mental nerves.2-4 In one retrospective study, the incidence of mental paresthesia resulting from periapical infection or pathology...

the developmental abnormality of tooth resulting from the infolding of enamel/dentin into the root is called dens invaginatus. management of such cases is usually challenging due to the morphological complexity of root canal system. this report presents a rare treatment protocol of a clinical case of oehler’s type iii dens invaginatus combined with an endodontic lesion in a vital maxillary late...

BACKGROUND Use of magnifying loupe may increase the efficiency of dental care. This clinical trial compared the time in performing non-surgical endodontic therapy with or without the use of a magnifying loupe. METHODS Patients who required primary endodontic treatment in clinical trial centres at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in Hong Kong and Peking University (PKU) in Beijing were invite...

Foreign Bodies, whether accidently trapped or self-introduced by the patient in tooth can not only act as a potential source of infection but may also interfere with proper cleaning and shaping subsequent obturation root canal space such teeth. Such foreign bodies are generally found on routine dental examination more common children anterior Though occurrence system is fairly finding, present ...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to investigate the presence of Enterococcus faecalis in primary endodontic infections and failed endodontic treatments using real-time PCR and to determine the statistical importance of the presence of E. faecalis in a Turkish population with endodontic infections. MATERIAL AND METHODS E. faecalis was investigated from 79 microbial samples collected from ...

Dental infections can be caused by dental caries, pulpal necrosis, trauma, and periodontal disorders, they have serious effects that impact both the soft hard tissues of oral cavity. Pain, fever, edema are frequent signs infections. Early treatment infected teeth includes surgical endodontic procedures, followed antibiotic medication. Antibiotics used to treat odontogenic infections, non-odonto...

AIM To provide clinicians with useful information for immediate diagnosis and management of impacted maxillary incisors due to trauma. METHODS We present a case of post-traumatic impaction of a central right maxillary incisor in a young patient. The treatment plan consisted in the interceptive management (surgical and orthodontic), the valuation of the necessary space to move the impacted too...

Dens invaginatus is a developmental anomaly that results in an enamel-lined cavity intruding into the crown or root before the mineralization phase. The cause of dens invaginatus is still unknown and controversial. Some hypotheses suggested by authors are: local external forces, apical proliferation of ameloblast or local retardation, arresting of development and focal developmental stimuli. Th...