Objectives: 1) To determine tooth size ratios in Saudi subjects with Class II, Division 1 malocclusion, 2) to compare tooth size ratios between Saudi males and females and 3) to compare tooth size ratios between Saudi subjects with Class II, Division 1, and Saudi subjects with Class I normal occlusion, and Bolton’s results. Methods: The current study consisted of study models of sixty subjects ...

Study background: Bolton Index is one of the most commonly used analysis in order to evaluate tooth-size discrepancy. Even if this measure could represent an important tool in clinical practice, many Authors questioned its widespread applicability. The aim of this study was to compare the anterior and total tooth width ratios of an orthodontic population with the Bolton standards and analyse di...

foreign body ingestion especially in large sizes is seen in children and people with mental illness like mental retardation. the patient is a 19-year-old woman without mental illness. she swallowed one tooth-brush during tooth- brushing, which passed through the esophagus and went in to the stomach and stuck there. after primary endoscopy, was determined that tooth-brush was adult size and its ...

Tooth root crack is considered as one of the crucial causes of failure in the gearing system and it occurs at the tooth root due to an excessive bending stress developed in the root region. The modern power transmission gear drives demand high bending load capacity, increased contact load capacity, low weight, reduced noise and longer life. These subsequent conditions are satisfied by the aid o...

Human dental reduction has been manifested in evolutionary and secular trends, but it is not known to what degree each of these complementary processes contributes to changes in tooth size. Enamel hypoplasia is a marker of developmental stress that is often found to be of greater frequency and severity in populations undergoing dental size reduction. In order to test the developmental associati...

BACKGROUND Tooth crown dimensions vary between different ethnic groups, providing insights into the factors controlling human dental development. This present study compares permanent mesiodistal (MD) and buccolingual crown dimensions between four ethnic groups, highlighting patterns of tooth size between these groups and considers the findings in relation to genetic and environmental influence...