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Comorbidities in aging patients with sickle cell disease. [PDF]

, 2018
Sickle cell disease (SCD) in general and sickle cell anemia in particular is a highly complex disorder both at the molecular and clinical levels. Although the molecular lesion is a single-point mutation, the sickle gene is pleiotropic in nature causing ...
Ballas, Samir K.
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The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, sex, and age on temporomandibular disorders subtypes in East Asian patients: a retrospective observational study

BMC Oral Health, 2023
Background Despite its major existential, societal, and health impacts, research concerning the COVID-19 pandemic and Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) is still limited.
Adrian Ujin Yap, Ji Woon Park, Jie Lei, Chengge Liu, Seong Hae Kim, Byeong-min Lee, Kai Yuan Fu   +6 more
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Prevalence of Oral Pain and Barriers to use of Emergency Oral Care Facilities Among Adult Tanzanians. [PDF]

, 2008
Oral pain has been the major cause of the attendances in the dental clinics in Tanzania. Some patients postpone seeing the dentist for as long as two to five days.
Ahadieli Raphael Senkoro, B Varenne, BH de Oliveira, C Miller, C Okunseri, Emil Namakuka Kikwilu, EP Macias, European Commission, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate – General Community Action Programme on Health Monitoring, Febronia Kokulengya Kahabuka, HJ Mosha, IM Matee, JM Wakiaga, Joyce Rose Masalu, JP Kessy, JT Johnson, K Zittel-Palamara, LB Käll, Ministry of Health, MK Ntabaye, N Ratnayake, RB Fillingim, VR Aggarwal, WH van Palenstein Helderman, World Health Organisation, Y Luo   +24 more
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Relationship between cervical spine and skeletal class II in subjects with and without temporomandibular disorders [PDF]

, 2018
AIM. To assess changes of cranio-cervical structure and of hyoid bone position in skeletal Class II subjects with and without Temporomandibular disorders (TMD). MATERIAL AND METHODS.
DI GIACOMO, PAOLA, DI PAOLO, Carlo, Ettore, Accivile, Ferrato, Giacomo, Polimeni, Antonella, Valeria, Ferrara   +5 more
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Temporomandibular joint disorder in systemic sclerosis: a case report

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
Systemic sclerosis have several effects on the orofacial region such as widening of the periodontal ligament space, xerostomia and bone resorption of the mandible.
Raja Chebbi, Hanen Ben Khalifa, Monia Dhidah   +2 more
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Botulinum Toxin Therapy for Managing Sleep Bruxism: A Randomized and Placebo—Controlled Trial

Toxins, 2020
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) for managing sleep bruxism (SB) in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Thirty SB subjects were randomly assigned into two groups evenly.
Young Joo Shim, Hee Jin Lee, Keun Jeong Park, Hyung Tack Kim, Il Hee Hong, Seong Taek Kim   +5 more
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Assessment of mandibular kinematics values and its relevance for the diagnosis of temporomandibular joint disorders

Journal of Dental Sciences, 2021
Background/purpose: Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are common conditions that involve the temporomandibular joints (TMJs), jaw muscles, or both, and can cause alteration in the mandibular kinematics.
Oliver Leissner, Miguel Maulén-Yáñez, Walther Meeder-Bella, Camilo León-Morales, Eduardo Vergara-Bruna, Wilfredo Alejandro González-Arriagada   +5 more
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Orofacial muscles activity in children with swallowing dysfunction and removable functional appliances [PDF]

, 2019
Swallowing dysfunction is a frequent disorder among children and refers to an altered tongue posture and abnormal tongue movement during swallowing. Removable functional appliance is one of the treatments applied by dentistry to correct this disorder ...
Giustino, Valerio, Martines, Francesco, Messina, G iuseppe, Pirino Alessio, Rizzo, Serena, Scoppa Fabio.   +5 more
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Integrating Medical Acupuncture and Intraoral Dry Needling Protocol for Radiation-Induced Xerostomia

Journal of the California Dental Association
Clinical trials have shown that acupuncture may be effective in treating xerostomia.2 Acupuncture reduces symptoms related to xerostomia in patients who are refractory to current management such as pilocarpine.3 A 60-year old female patient presented ...
S. J. Lee, C. P. Diep, S. Arman, D. V. Messadi, F. S. Younai   +4 more
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Influence of sleep quality on pain characteristics, anxiety symptoms and catastrophizing in patients with painful temporomandibular disorders treated in private orofacial pain clinic

BrJP
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Extensive literature has shown that poor sleep quality, anxiety symptoms and catastrophizing contribute to worsening of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) conditions.
Claudia Aparecida de Oliveira Machado, Camila Maria Bastos Machado Resende, Juliana Stuginski-Barbosa, Paulo Cezar Simamoto-Junior   +3 more
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