Like finger prints each individual has a unique dental arch form design. Recording patient's dental arch form may be required in various fields in dentistry be it longitudinal studies for evaluating growth, forensic dentistry and most importantly in orthodontic practice for fabricating arch wires for individual patients. An easy and practical method to obtain individual arch form for each patie...

Dental informatics is an emerging discipline applying computer and information science to dental practice, research, education, and management. To date, the dental informatics research literature has not been comprehensively reviewed. This study reports an initial analysis of the dental informatics literature. We developed an initial, comprehensive retrieval strategy to locate dental informatic...

This paper starts by outlining the country, the population structure and growth pattern in Turkey. It then explains the present provision of oral health care in Turkey. It gives information about dentists, dental faculties, the health insurance system, dental education programme and epidemiological data on oral health in Turkey.

Recent reports suggest that in many established market economies changes in dietary practices have resulted in a change in children and adolescents’ body mass index. Among the reported dietary changes are alterations in the pattern of intake of carbohydrates. It would seem entirely consistent with current knowledge to assume that such changes may also impact upon dental caries in the child popu...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between dental, chronological, and cervical vertebral maturation growth in the peak growth period, as well as to study the association between the dental calcification phases and the skeletal maturity stages during the same growth period. METHODS Subjects were selected from orthodontic pre-treatment cohorts consisting of 420 subjects where 255 were iden...

A long-time drawback of dental composites is that they accumulate more biofilms and plaques than amalgam and glass ionomer restorative materials. It would be highly desirable to develop a new composite with reduced biofilm growth, while avoiding the non-esthetics of amalgam and low strength of glass ionomer. The objectives of this study were to: (1) develop a protein-repellent composite with re...

During embryonic organogenesis, the odontogenic potential resides in dental mesenchyme from the bud stage until birth. Mouse dental mesenchymal cells (mDMCs) isolated from the inductive dental mesenchyme of developing molars are frequently used in the context of tooth development and regeneration. We wondered if and how the odontogenic potential could be retained when mDMCs were cultured in vit...

Growth of intact bacterial plaques associated with dental caries and peridontal disease is inhibited by some polyphosphates.

Background: Untreated dental caries have considerable consequences on the growth and development of children and their qual-