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Oral health status for primary dentition – A pilot study
Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, 2021 Introduction: Formulating an oral health status which will include oral hygiene index (OHI) exclusively for children, deft index, and the incidence of white spot lesions (WSL) will make it easier for the examiner to assess the current oral health status ...
Janvi Manish Gandhi +3 more
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Tooth replacement in early sarcopterygians [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Teeth were an important innovation in vertebrate evolution but basic aspects of early dental evolution remain poorly understood. Teeth differ from other odontode organs, like scales, in their organized, sequential pattern of replacement.
Mark Doeland +3 more
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McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020 This study surveyed the dental health of three Costa Rican indigenous populations and two rural, non-indigenous communities. Sixty-six individuals, both children and adults, were interviewed regarding dental hygiene practices and the dentition of eighty ...
Alfredo García, Christina M. Guzzo
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Current Perspectives on Tooth Implantation, Attachment, and Replacement in Amniota
Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 Teeth and dentitions contain many morphological characters which give them a particularly important weight in comparative anatomy, systematics, physiology and ecology.
Thomas J. C. Bertin +6 more
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Highly derived eutherian mammals from the earliest Cretaceous of southern Britain [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017 Eutherian mammals (Placentalia and all mammals phylogenetically closer to placentals than to marsupials) comprise the vast majority of extant Mammalia. Among these there is a phenomenal range of forms and sizes, but the origins of crown group placentals ...
Steven C. Sweetman +2 more
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Images in Medicine Representing the Management of Mesiodens in Different Dentitions [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchMesiodens are the most common type of supernumerary teeth, typically located between the two maxillary central incisors [1]. Hereby, three cases of mesiodens in primary, mixed and permanent dentition are presented, along with a discussion of how the ...
Simron Baishya +3 more
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A Literature Review of Stainless Steel Crown for Permanent Molars: Indications, Survival, Periodontal and Radiographic Findings [PDF]
Journal of DentistryStainless steel crowns (SSCs) are the preferred choice for restoring primary molars with extensive caries. However, they may be indicated for permanent molars in certain cases as well.
Pooya Vatankhah +2 more
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Indian Journal of Dental Sciences, 2020 Introduction: Developmental dental hard-tissue anomalies include anomalies of number, size, shape, and structure of the teeth. Anomalies in primary dentition are associated with anomalies in the permanent dentition.
Nneka Kate Onyejaka +2 more
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Adaptability of the tongue during orthodontic apparatus treatment
RUDN Journal of Medicine, 2023 To date, most dentoalveolar deformities are associated with bad habits such as thumb sucking, tongue sticking out, and so on. According to the authors, protrusion of the tongue is normal in newborns, in which the tongue lies between the gingival pads ...
Maria B. Vasilyeva, Nidjat A. Guseynov
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Scientific Reports, 2018 Modern birds (crown group birds, called Neornithes) are toothless; however, the extinct neornithine Odontopterygiformes possessed bone excrescences (pseudoteeth) which resembled teeth, distributed sequentially by size along jaws.
Antoine Louchart +5 more
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