Radial immunodiffusion technique was used to estimate salivary immunoglobulin A, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for estimation of serum IgA, IgG and IgM in 30 patients with acute recurrent aphthous ulceration (RAU) and during remission period compared to 30 healthy controls. Significantly elevated level of salivary IgA (p < 0.05) was found in patients with minor RAU when compared to the ...

Background: It has been reported that curcumin has anti inflammatory, antibacterial, anti tumor and analgesic properties. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of curcumin in the treatment of minor aphthous stomatitis. Methods: The study was a two week, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled of patients with minor aphthous. Patients between 18 and 65 years...

Five patients are described who had repeated endoscopy because of continuing dyspeptic symptoms associated with a negative barium meal. They were found to have multiple recurring gastric erosions (aphthous ulcers). No common aetiological factor could be found, although four of these patients did have a mild or moderatley active superficial chronic gastritis. Conventional peptic ulcer therapy fa...

We have investigated the incidence of antibodies to food antigens in patients with recurrent minor aphthous ulceration and in patients with other oral ulcerative diseases. The incidence of these antibodies was the same in both groups of patients and was significantly greater than the incidence in a control group of normal people. There was no evidence to support the hypothesis that aphthous ulc...

background: it has been reported that curcumin has anti inflammatory, antibacterial, anti tumor and analgesic properties. objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of curcumin in the treatment of minor aphthous stomatitis. methods: the study was a two week, randomized, double blind, placebo controlled of patients with minor aphthous. patients between 18 and 65 years o...

n the article entitled “Two-year prevalence of minor aphtha in Tabriz, Northwest Iran” which was published in the winter issue of the third volume of the journal, a 0.3% prevalence rate for minor recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) was reported. We attempted to continue studying the archives of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Faculty of Dentistry until June 2008, to allow for a consecutiv...

Background and objectives: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is one of the most common painful mucosal diseases seen in the oral cavity of patients. Pathogenesis and etiology of this disorder is still unclear. RAS is categorized into minor, major, and herpetiform ulcers. Ulcers classified as minor, consist more than 85% cases of RAS. The goal of this study was to review the e...