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Oral health status for primary dentition – A pilot study

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Accuracy of intraoral scans in the mixed dentition: a prospective non-randomized comparative clinical trial

open access: yesHead & Face Medicine, 2020
Objective In-vivo accuracy of intraoral scans of complete mixed dentitions of patients in active treatment have not yet been investigated. The aim was to test the hypothesis that dimensional differences between intraoral scans and conventional alginate ...
Konrad Liczmanski   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dental Condition as A Factor Modifying the Transmission of the Sound Vibration in the Skull Bones

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
Dental deficiencies coexist with hearing loss, and dental treatment can improve hearing acuity. To prove that different dentition affects the transmission of acoustic vibrations through bone conduction, we prepared six dry human skulls to reconstruct ...
Slawomir Balinski   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Highly derived eutherian mammals from the earliest Cretaceous of southern Britain [PDF]

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

Dientes ChiquiTICOS: an analysis of juvenile dentition and dental health in Costa Rican indigenous communities

open access: yesMcGill 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
doaj   +1 more source

Tooth replacement in early sarcopterygians [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Revision of Dadagulella gen. nov., the “Gulella radius group” (Gastropoda: Streptaxidae) of the eastern Afrotropics, including six new species and three new subspecies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The genus Dadagulella gen. nov. is described to include 16 species of small, dentate, ovateacuminate Afrotropical snails. An identification key is provided and biogeography, anatomy and systematics are discussed. The type species is the Kenyan D. radius (
Rowson, Ben, Tattersfield, Peter
core   +3 more sources

Current Perspectives on Tooth Implantation, Attachment, and Replacement in Amniota

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Mucogingival conditions in the natural dentition: Narrative review, case definitions, and diagnostic considerations

open access: yesThe Journal of Periodontology, 2018
BACKGROUND Mucogingival deformities, and gingival recession in particular, are a group of conditions that affect a large number of patients. Since life expectancy is rising and people are retaining more teeth both gingival recession and the related ...
P. Cortellini, N. Bissada
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sociodemographic and behavioral factors associated with developmental dental hard-tissue anomalies in children with primary dentition

open access: yesIndian 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
doaj   +1 more source

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