Patients with complete or partial edentulism who have insufficient bone for endosseous dental implant treatment present a challenge for the dental practitioner. Alveolar distraction osteogenesis is a technique for creating bone and soft tissue, without the need for bone grafting and its potential complications. In this article, alveolar distraction osteogenesis is compared with traditional bone...

Objectives: Due to the continuous development of invasive dental procedures, presently we encounter a permanent growing of medical complications, like protrusion of foreign bodies into the maxillary sinus during therapeutic maneuvers on the superior dental arch. Plus that we can find neglected foreign bodies in the maxillary sinuses after ENT surgical procedures. With this clinical study we eva...

Objective: To assess oral health status and its relationship with stomatological complications, oral mucositis (OM) and odontogenic infections (OI), after dental work in pediatric patients with cancer. Design: Prospective cohort study and analysis of oral health conditions with a 6-month follow-up. Setting: Dental Unit, Stomatology Unit and Oncology Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre...

BACKGROUND Only a few case reports and case series dealing with oral and dental health care are available in literature until now. The aim of the present pilot study was to determine the status of dental health in comparison to matched controls and to heighten the neurologists' and dentists' awareness of the oral aspects of the disease. METHODS 42 Huntington's disease (HD) participants were s...

Objectives: There is a strong body of evidence to support the relationship between periodontal diseases and diabetes mellitus. Unless dental practitioners are aware of this link, they cannot apply the information to their daily practice. The aim of the study was, therefore, to evaluate the knowledge of dental practitioners concerning the effect of diabetes on periodontal health. Subjects and Me...

As of November 1, 2011 the world's population is estimated to be 7 billion. Within this mass of humanity is a substantial number of people that are elderly; the graying of the world's population is predicted to produce millions of individuals with systemic medical conditions that can affect oral health and dental treatment. The dental management of these medically compromised patients can be pr...

Dental paresthesia is loss of sensation caused by maxillary or mandibular anesthetic administration before dental treatment. This review examines inferior alveolar block paresthesia symptoms, side effect and complications. Understanding the anatomy of the pterygomandibular fossa will help in understanding the nature and causes of the dental paresthesia. In this review, we review the anatomy of ...

Foreign body aspiration or ingestion can be a potential complication during routine dental treatment. The handling of dental objects requires particular care, especially where the patient is supine or semi-recumbent. Dentist must be able to manage emergency situations in which patients accidentally swallow dental instruments or materials during treatment and procedures. This article reviews the...

In most of the patients with chronic hepatitis B and C, the disease progression to liver cirrhosis and a liver transplantation is necessary. Untreated oral diseases (including dental problems) can lead to infections and sepsis and may cause many complications in transplanted patients and a prerequisite dental evaluation is usually recommended for potential organ transplant candidates. Our aim w...