this report presents a rare case of bi-rooted primary maxillary canines. a 6-year-old girl presented at the department of pediatric dentistry, faculty of dentistry, mashhad university of medical sciences, iran, with the chief complaint of pain in the lower right quadrant of her dentition. radiographic examination revealed bifurcation of primary maxillary canine roots. this report discusses the ...

this case of a female patient, 14 yr old with association of the two anomalies, which we came across with in 2014, is rarely met in the specialty practice. the impacted canines are part of the group of dental anomalies of position, while the agenesis is part of the group of dental number anomalies. the orthodontic treatment in the two arches has to be differentiated, the therapeutic objectives ...

Military and law enforcement agencies have seen a dramatic increase in the utilization of working canines both at home and in foreign deployments. Due to the fact that professional veterinary care is sometimes distant from internal disaster or foreign deployment sites, the military medic, police tactical medic, or other first-response medical care provider may be charged with providing emergenc...

This study compared two different radiographic techniques for localization of impacted maxillary canines: vertical parallax (from a panoramic and a maxillary anterior occlusal radiograph) and magnification (from a single panoramic radiograph). The radiographs and the information regarding the impacted canines were obtained retrospectively from records of patients treated in the Day Stay Unit of...

The aim of the study was to determine whether there are differences in dental age (DA) using the method of Demirjian, in patients with impacted buccal or palatal maxillary canines in relation to unaffected controls. DA was estimated using Demirjian's method on panoramic radiographs of two groups of Caucasian patients. The study group consisted of 116 patients aged from 12 to 16 years (80 female...

AIM To investigate the morphologic parameters associated with cases of transmigrating mandibular canines. METHODS The orthodontic records of 3,500 patients were examined for the presence of transmigrating mandibular canines. Lateral cephalograms and study casts were analyzed for skeletal and dental parameters. Observations were made as to the sex and age of the subject, and side, location, an...

Animal models that simulate various aspects of human brain aging are an essential step in the development of interventions to manage cognitive dysfunction in the elderly. Over the past several years we have been studying cognition and neuropathology in the aged-canine (dog). Like humans, canines naturally accumulate deposits of beta-amyloid (Abeta) in the brain with age. Further, canines and hu...

Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSs) are lysosomal storage diseases caused by a deficit in the enzymes needed for glycosaminoglycan (GAG) degradation. Enzyme replacement therapy with recombinant human alpha-L-iduronidase successfully reduces lysosomal storage in canines and humans with iduronidase-deficient MPS I, but therapy usually also induces antibodies specific for the recombinant enzyme that coul...

Pyometra, transmissible venereal tumor and dystocia had maximum prevalence out of various reproductive disorders in canines. Survival rate 62% of dystocia affected female canines following the treatment of dystocia is usually not satisfactory.