Objective: To determine the incidence of oro-facial habits in children during mixed dentition phase and their effect on overjet and overbite. Material and Methods: A total number of 50 participants were examined clinically on a dental chair in upright position using mouth mirror and straight probe. Personal data and positive findings of the participants were recorded. Clinical oral examination ...

Herpes simplex virus infection is almost universal.this virus has two types:HSV1 and HSV2 infect about 500/000 persons annually in the united states,and its prevalence rate has increased during the past decade.Usually HSV1 spreads through kissing or casual contact and HSV2 through sexual intercourses.HSV1 is more frequently associated with oral infection and HSV2 can cause recurrent genital ulc...

Introduction: Orofacial clefts are among the most common congenital anomalies. Patients presenting with orofacial clefts often require surgery or other complex procedures. A cleft lip or palate can be a single anomaly or a part of multiple congenital anomalies. The reported prevalence of cleft disease and associated anomalies varies widely across the literature, and is dependent on the diagnost...

Abstract Background Oro‐facial dysfunctions (OFDs; oro‐facial myofunctional disorders) in children and childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) often cause severe problems articulation, chewing, swallowing oral posture. Objectives Pathognomonic symptoms could yet not be identified, but central planning, programming, timing automating oro‐facial, as well other fine motor skills, are assumed to affected...

Background In general, the oro-maxillo-facial infections, including the abscesses in the head and neck spaces, are mixed infections, involving anaerobic bacteria in association with facultative anaerobic microorganisms, with the predominance of the first ones. Since most anaerobes are fastidious bacteria, their isolation and identification are not routinely performed by the clinical laboratory,...

OBJECTIVES To verify the frequency of oral and facial involvement in diagnosed leprosy patients. STUDY DESIGN This study was performed on 100 leprosy patients (62 male, 38 female, mean ages 51.86±6.1). After explaining the study design, we studied descriptive information including: patient' s sex, age, job, place of birth, familial history of leprosy, types of disease (lepromatous, borderline...

background: since child abuse and neglect are serious conditions which can potentially lead to inappropriate dental health, we conducted this qualitative study to defi ne the factors infl uencing child abuse and neglect, which lead to oro-facial lesions. materials and methods: qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted by social services employees. purposive sampling was used to recr...

The concentration of bivalent cations affects a large number of processes that occur in the oro-maxillary region. A connection has been established between chronic periodontitis, on one side, and the salivary concentration of calcium, magnesium, zinc and copper and the concentration of magnesium in blood, on the other. Patients with suppurations on oro-maxillo-facial area show decreased blood c...