AIM To evaluate the influence of reinforcement material on in vitro dental splint rigidity. MATERIALS AND METHODS  A custom-made artificial model was used. The central incisors simulated 'injured' teeth with increased mobility, and the lateral incisors served as 'uninjured' teeth with physiologic mobility. The Periotest and Zwick methods were used to assess horizontal and vertical tooth mobil...

The study was done to identify the association between cigarette smoking and periodontitis in patients reporting to tertiary care dental centre. It is a comparative cross sectional study which was conducted in the Department of Operative Dentistry at Armed Forces Institute of Dentistry, Rawalpindi. The study was completed in 6 months from Mar 2007 to Sep 2007. 200 patients including 100 smokers...

background: recent researches have known long term infections such as periodontal disease to be related with the process of atherosclerosis. periodontitis causes peripheral inflammation and immune cell stimulation which leads to an increase in c - reactive protein (crp) and iga ab and there is a definite relation between cardiovascular disease, crp increase and periodontitis. the aim of this st...

AIM To analyse patient-related factors (PRFs) and tooth-related factors (TRFs) associated with tooth loss due to periodontal disease (TLPD) in patients undergoing periodontal maintenance (PM). MATERIAL AND METHODS The sample consisted of 500 patients (mean follow-up of 20 years). The impact of PRFs on TLPD was analysed with Poisson regression and multivariate logistic regression. The simultan...

The mechanical parameters of the periodontal ligament (PDL) in rat specimens were investigated in a combined experimental and numerical approach. Tooth mobility of the rat mandibular first molar was measured in vitro using a high precision experimental set-up. Finite element models (FEM) were developed, based on histological sections of the measured specimens, to simulate tooth mobility numeric...

BACKGROUND Generalised aggressive periodontitis (AP) in the prepubescent age is an exceptionally rare disease in the primary dentition of otherwise healthy children. Characteristics of AP are gingival inflammation, deep periodontal pockets, bone loss, tooth mobility and even tooth loss. The most common way of treating this disease is the extraction of all the involved primary teeth. CASE REPO...

Impact of implant dentistry is such that today very few dentists think about saving grade III mobile anterior teeth. A patient with grade III mobility of central incisor due to apical root resorption was treated by using 80 no.stainless steel 'H' file as endostabiliser and one year follow up was done. Endostabiliser reduced the mobility of grade III mobile teeth drastically, immediately after i...

external root resorption of permanent teeth is a multifactorial process. several etiologic and predisposing factors have been related to external root resorption. idiopathic external root resorption is defined as cases of external root resorption without a distinct etiologic factor. this article presents an extensive idiopathic external root resorption of maxillary first molar with irreversible...

introduction: herpes zoster infection (hzi) is a viral disease with painful skin rashes and blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a strip. osteonecrosis with spontaneous exfoliation of teeth in association with hzi of the mandibular nerve is a rare phenomenon. in this report, such an unusual complication of hzi is presented.   case report: the clinical course of a 53-year...

Damage to adjacent teeth is one of the various complications that may occur during implant placement and is often the result of improper direction during fixture placement or excessive depth of placement. In general, if detrimental symptoms, such as reaction to percussion in damaged teeth, mobility, and pulp necrosis, are not present, osseointegration should be observed at follow-up. In three c...