Dental caries is a bacterially based disease. When it progresses, acid produced by bacterial action on dietary fermentable carbohydrates diffuses into the tooth and dissolves the carbonated hydroxy...
Lingual orthodontics has come a long way in the last 20 years from being on the fringes of clinical application. Most malocclusions that can be treated by conventional labial techniques can also be...
Wound healing is a natural curative reaction to tissue injury involves the interaction of a complex flow of cellular events that generates resurfacing, reconstitution, and restoration of the tensil...
Newborn Screening for Sickle Cell Disease and other Haemoglobinopathies is a Special Issue of the International Journal of Neonatal Screening. Sickle cell disease is one of the most com...
Demographic shifts in the United States have resulted in an increasingly diverse multicultural and multigenerational population. Cultural competence is a core standard in the nursing curricula of u...
Bleaching and composite restorations, as combined treatment, form a conservative approach for treatment of discolored, mal-shaped and mal-positioned teeth. However, bleaching affects immediate comp...
The sugar substitutes discussed in this this book, which may also be called alternative, artificial, high-intensity, or non-nutritive sweeteners, can replace the sweetness of sugar while providing ...
The Human tongue is an important contributor to various orthodontic problems and the detailed knowledge of its anatomical and functional components will assess its key role in orthodontics. It is a...
Cleft lip and palate represents the second most frequently occurring congenital deformity after clubfoot deformity. These structural defects of the facial-oral complex may vary from slight notching...
This text book on diagnosis and treatment planning in dental implant presents systematic information which should be acquired from patients' such as medical and dental history, clinical examination...
Dentistry over the years has been held by lay man as a feeling of dread. This fear of the dentist over the generations has been mainly due to unpleasant experiences incurred by the patient either d...
Antioxidants have attracted immense interest of researchers because of their implied role in the protection of biological systems. Though all living organisms possess their own antioxidant defense ...
The present study is an "open randomized controlled trial" using single low dose (25 µg) misoprostol vaginally as an intervention in study group at 40 weeks of gestation in uncomplicated singleton ...
Currently, there is the highest level of evidence for physiotherapy and bracing for scoliosis. In contrast, evidence for spinal fusion surgery remains questionable. Moreover, recent improvements in...