Dentistry in medical history
Marshall Joseph Becker, Jean MacIntosh Turfa in The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry, 2017
Two basic histories of dental surgery and oral medicine in general (Guerini 1909, Hoffmann-Axthelm 1973) provide useful reviews of the earlier literature. The following information is intended to re-examine and expand upon these sources from the perspective of the period during which the shop in the Temple of Castor and Pollux was functioning, the early years of the Roman Empire. These data will be reviewed in the cultural context of Roman history, and compared with related developments in the care and preservation of teeth. This will enable us to scrutinize the origins and development of the technology of dental prosthetics. The first Western evidence for practitioners comes from Greece and Rome; other commentaries from Egypt or Mesopotamia are older but do not even encompass extractions, let alone other dental procedures.
Medico-legal aspects of patient management
Raj Rattan, Kevin Lewis, Raj Rattan in Making Sense of Dental Practice Management, 2017
UK claims data from leading defence organizations shows the relative incidence of claims to be dominated by procedures involving oral surgery, simple restorative work, endodontic procedures, fixed and removable prosthodontics (crown and bridgework and dentures). The incidence of claims involving orthodontic and periodontal work is comparatively far less. It must be remembered however that statistical data of this type is historical and it is equally important to analyse current trends. These indicate a significant growth in claims relating to periodontal treatment (or rather the lack of it) and cases involving failed implants.
Pain Management in Dentistry
Mark V. Boswell, B. Eliot Cole in Weiner's Pain Management, 2005
Prosthodontics: Prosthodontics is the dental specialty for diagnosis, treatment planning, rehabilitation, and maintenance of the oral function, comfort, appearance, and health of patients with clinical conditions associated with missing or deficient teeth and/or oral and maxillofacial tissues using biocompatible substitutes (Adopted April 2003).
A review on patient-specific facial and cranial implant design using Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2021
Afaque Rafique Memon, Jianning Li, Jan Egger, Xiaojun Chen
Lerner et al. used AI techniques to fix an implant prosthodontics. The researcher conducted his study on 90 patients (55 women and 35 men). The mean age of the patients were 53.3 +- 13.7 years. It is necessary for a dentist to test the quality of the overlap in micrometers by generating a colorimetric map. The actual design file of the single abutment was integrated with the mesh in the correct spatial position. Using intrinsic AI, the software has the capacity to trace the margin line automatically for the implant abutment through subgingival Figure 6. The technician is able to alter the design of the margin line but this was not required because AI perfectly drawn it in all the cases. It was accurate and clear because the CAD modeling is used to draw it. The software has the capacity to detect it automatically and to draft it without any problem. The finished file the processed by five axis milling machine (DWX-51, DG Shape a Ronald company Japan) to obtain MZC. The crown was polished and ready for clinical application [45].
Optical coherence tomography systems for evaluation of marginal and internal fit of ceramic reconstructions
Published in Biomaterial Investigations in Dentistry, 2022
Hiba Al-Imam, Ana R. Benetti, Pete Tomlins, Klaus Gotfredsen
In dentistry, OCT was mainly used in diagnostics of dental hard tissues and cariology [1]. However, the use of OCT has increased markedly in the different fields of dentistry including dental materials and prosthodontics [1]. In prosthodontics, OCT has been used as a diagnostic tool to assess ceramic-enamel interfacial debonding [1,4], defects of reconstructions [5] and marginal and/or internal adaptation of reconstructions produced in acrylic [6] or different dental ceramics [4,7–10]. Studies demonstrated OCT to be a reliable and valid tool for evaluating marginal and internal fit of such dental reconstructions [4,6–9]. Nevertheless, since only materials that can transmit light are suitable to be scanned with OCT, the optical properties of the reconstruction materials shall be considered. An assessment of different dental materials used in prosthodontics will demonstrate the full potential and/or limitations of OCT as a new diagnostic approach to evaluate the fit of reconstructions. In this context, it would be of interest to further assess lithium disilicate and high translucent zirconia, materials that are largely used in the current dental practice. Lithium disilicate is known for its high translucency (refractive index; n = 1.55) making it suitable to be assessed with OCT, as shown in previous studies [7,8]. More recently, the potential use of OCT in the assessment of thin zirconia reconstructions was demonstrated [9,10] granted the development in zirconia’s optical properties (refractive index; n = 2.177–2.088) [11,12].
Impact of oral conditions on the quality of life of incarcerated women in Brazil
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2019
Gustavo H Soares, Iranilda Mendonça, Edgard Michel-Crosato, Samuel J Moysés, Simone T Moysés, Renata I Werneck
We observed a prevalence rate of untreated caries of 84%, similar to the findings of other studies with imprisoned populations (Bukhari et al., 2017; Dhanker et al., 2013; Fotedar et al., 2016). Singh et al., (2015) conducted an epidemiological survey with a mixed group of inmates from India and found that women had significantly higher number of teeth affected by caries than men. Overall DMFT score of 11.7 reported in this study was higher than among prisoners from India (4.8) and Saudi Arabia (8), and lower than inmates from Finland (17) and Brazil (19.7) (Bukhari et al., 2017; Cavalcanti et al., 2014; Dhanker et al., 2013; Vainionpää et al., 2017). Researchers have also described the low use of dental prosthesis in contrast with extreme high needs for prosthodontics among prisoners, in addition to significantly low prevalence rates of healthy sextants (Dayakar, Shivprasad, & Pai, 2014; Rodrigues et al., 2014).
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