(1) Background: The aim of this research was to investigate the antibacterial activity dissolved silver from silver-coated titanium implants against Streptococcus mutans. (2) Methodology: Silver-coated implant discs were immersed in 1.8 mL brain heart infusion broth (BHIB) and incubated for 24 h order release ions into broth. coating quality confirmed via EDS, measured inductively coupled plasm...

introduction :mucositis is a disturbing side effect of radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer. to date, no effective modality for its prophylaxis and treatment has been found. we performed this study to evaluate the efficacy of oral zinc sulphate in delaying the onset of oral and pharyngeal mucositis and decreasing their severity. materials and methods : a total of 58 patients who were...

introduction: oral mucositis is considered a severe complication in cancer patients receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy for head and neck cancer. the aim of this review study was to assess the effect of low level laser therapy for prevention and management of oral mucositis in cancer patients. methods: the electronic databases searched included pubmed, isi web of knowledge and google scholar...

BACKGROUND Few large-scale follow-up studies are reported on routine implant treatment. PURPOSE To report retrospective data on early inflammatory and early implant failures in a large number of routine patients at one private referral clinic. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 1017 patients were consecutively provided with 3082 implants with an anodized surface (Nobel Biocare AB) at 1592 imp...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between patients with a history of periodontitis and development of cement-related peri-implant disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-seven patients with 129 implants for this retrospective analysis were selected from completed implant cases that were scheduled for regular maintenance or had experienced mechanical or biol...

Background: Peri-implant diseases are inflammatory as periodontal disease. An array of oxidative stress markers has been examined in the disease and health tissues. The purpose study was to test whether peri-implant conditions have an impact on sulcus fluid markers.Materials Methods: A total 44 participants were included study. Collected samples divided 3 groups, 14 for healthy implants; 15 muc...

Radiotherapy is used to treat patients with head and neck cancers as a primary therapy or an adjuvant surgery chemotherapy. Irradiation results in several complications that can be very overwhelming the patient. Frequently there loss of function due tooth loss, compromised aesthetics, pain discomfort from xerostomia mucositis, it also significantly impacts quality life.
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Abstract Background Peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis are biofilm-related diseases causing major concern in oral implantology, requiring complex anti-infective procedures or implant removal. Microbial biosurfactants emerged as new anti-biofilm agents for coating implantable devices preserving biocompatibility. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of rhamnolipid biosurfactant R89 (R...