BACKGROUND Nipple fissure is a common problem in breastfeeding women, and the main reason for the early discontinuation of breastfeeding. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of Saqez (Pistacia atlantica) ointment on the treatment of nipple fissure and nipple pain in breastfeeding women. METHODS This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 100 subjects admitted to the health centers in Tehr...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the application of the modified Ottawa method by establishing the update need of a systematic review with focus on the caries preventive effect of GIC versus resin pit and fissure sealants; to answer the question as to whether the existing conclusions of this systematic review are still current; to establish whether a new update of this systematic review was needed. M...

OBJECTIVES Despite the increasing use of Internet, there is no supervision over the accuracy and quality of the information provided in the web. To deal with this problem, health specialists should take part in planning, publishing and supervision of online health-related information. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of information related to pit and fissure sealants in Persian...

BACKGROUND The majority of the detected increment in dental caries is confined to pit and fissure surfaces of first molars. Application of pit and fissure sealants and topical fluorides are widely used procedures in the prevention of decay, and their effectiveness in caries prevention has been proved by systematic reviews. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to compare the effectivenes...

The ability of uv light-cured fissure sealants to release fluoride ion from different concentrations of sodium fluoride (NaF), over a 3-week period was studied. Two hundred samples of sealant were prepared in which 1 group contained no fluoride (control) and 4 others contained NaF at 0.05, 0.2, 0.5, and 2% concentrations, respectively. The fluoride ion released by each sample after 1 day, 3 day...

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): cariostatic agents, community dentistry, community health planning, community health services, decision making, dental caries, evidencebased medicine, facial injuries, fluoridation, intervention studies, meta-analysis, mouth protectors, oral health, pharyngeal neoplasms, pit and fissure sealants, practice guidelines, preventive dentistry, preventive health servi...

UNLABELLED ATM: Oral health is important for everyone, but specially for children and people requiring special care owing to impaired manual ability. Primary prevention, with correct oral hygiene, proper diet, use of fluoride and pit and fissure sealants, can reduce caries risk thereby improving patients' quality of life. The first aim of this paper was to assess the marginal microleakage of di...

Dental adhesive systems used for bonding dental resins to enamel and dentin have evolved through several “generations,” with changes in chemistry, mechanism, number of bottles, application technique, and clinical effectiveness. The trend in the latest generation of dental bonding systems is to reduce the number of components and clinical placement steps. The introduction of i bond, a single-bot...

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): cariostatic agents, community dentistry, community health planning, community health services, decision making, dental caries, evidencebased medicine, facial injuries, intervention studies, mouth protectors, oral health, pharyngeal neoplasms, pit and fissure sealants, practice guidelines, preventive dentistry, preventive health services, public health dentistry,...