{"title":"Comparison of microleakage of root-end filling materials – In vitro study","authors":"Ayush Razdan Singh , Arun Verma , K.K. Dixit","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.02.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>The objective of the study was to evaluate the microleakage of various root end filling materials and to find the sealing ability of these materials.</p></div><div><h3>Methodology</h3><p>Sixty (60) extracted single rooted anterior teeth<span><span> were selected and divided into four groups of 15 samples each. Group A, B, C and D in which root-end filling was done with Surgical Simplex Bone Cement, Super </span>EBA<span>, Ketac<span> Molar Glass Ionomer and Pro-root MTA<span> respectively. The teeth were retrofilled and then the apical halves were submerged in 2% methylene blue dye. The depth of dye penetration and maximum value of leakage in each sample were recorded.</span></span></span></span></p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Group D had statistically significant difference from Group C (1.73 ± 0.16 mm) as well as Group A (2.10 ± 0.14 mm).</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation and conclusion</h3><p>Microleakage of Group B was minimum. Thus concluding that Super EBA is a good root-end filling material.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 6-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92022851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel clinical endodontic approach: Radix entomolaris","authors":"Kavita Dhinsa , Firoza Samadi , J.N. Jaiswal , Sonali Saha","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><p><span>The present case report discusses the treatment of an endodontically treated mandibular </span>molar tooth with three roots and four canals. Two canals were present in the mesial side and one each was present in the disto-buccal and disto-lingual side.</p></div><div><h3>Background</h3><p>Mandibular molars may have an additional root which may be located buccally or lingually. When it is buccally located it is called as radix paramolaris and when lingually located it is termed as radix entomolaris (RE). Hence, the presence of such a pulpal system calls for challenges in providing endodontic treatment.</p></div><div><h3>Case description</h3><p><span>A female child of 13 years age, reported to the Department of Pedodontics & </span>Preventive Dentistry<span><span><span> with a chief complaint of lancinating pain in the lower back region of the right side of the mandible. The pain was present for last two months. On clinical examination, the </span>mandibular first molar of right side was deeply carious with tenderness on percussion. Intra oral periapical radiograph showed carious lesion involving enamel, dentin and pulp along with an extra root between the distal and mesial roots. To confirm that additional root is present, two intra oral periapical radiographs with different horizontal </span>angulations<span> were taken. After taking radiographs, an additional root was confirmed to be present on the disto-lingual side of the mesial root. Final diagnosis of irreversible pulpitis was made. The treatment modality planned was root canal treatment.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 42-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133525199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socioeconomic status of the family and caries experience among 2–6 years old preschool children of Lucknow city, India","authors":"Ridhi Narang , Sabyasachi Saha , Litik Mittal , Anamika , Yogesh Kumar Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><p>The aim of the present study was to assess the socioeconomic status of the family and caries experience among 2–6 years old preschool children of Lucknow city, India.</p></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><p>A sample of 512 preschool going children were selected. The socioeconomic status was elicited using modified B.G.L. Prasad's classification for the year 2010. Parent's education, occupation and income were recorded. Dental caries experience was recorded using Dentition status and treatment needs (WHO Basic Oral Health Survey 1997). Association between socioeconomic status and caries experience was obtained using chi-square test.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The prevalence of nursing caries was 33.01%. Nursing caries was significantly associated with lower parents education, occupation and socioeconomic status of the family (<em>p</em> < 0.001).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Instilling the positive attitudes of the parents especially mothers toward the prevention of nursing caries would reduce the prevalence at this tender age of life.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 12-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92022850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basis of orthodontics-bonding – A review","authors":"Juhi Yadav , Praveen Mehrotra , Sudhir Kapoor , Rachita Mehrotra","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Bonding has transformed the tedium of appliance construction into an efficient and pleasant operation for both patient and clinician. The bonding procedure requires debonding at the termination of treatment. The objectives of debonding are to remove the attachments and all adhesive resin from tooth and to restore the surface as closely as possible to its pretreatment condition. To achieve these objectives correct bonding and debonding are of fundamental importance. The introduction of the acid etch bonding technique has led to dramatic changes in the practice of </span>orthodontics<span>. The increased adhesion produced by acid pretreatment, using 85% phosphoric acid, was demonstrated in 1955 by Buonocore.</span></span><span><sup>1</sup></span><span> In 1965, with the advent of epoxy resin bonding, Newman</span><span><sup>2</sup></span><span> began to apply these findings to direct bonding orthodontic attachments. The future of bonding is promising, product development in terms of adhesives, brackets, devices and technical details is continually occurring at a rapid rate. The purpose of this review article is to update the current available information on direct bonding to natural and artificial teeth.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 28-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92036683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of temporomandibular joint – A review","authors":"Vertika Srivastav , Ajay Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Evolution is a change in gene pool of a population over time. Differences between genomes have anthropological, medical, and forensic implications and applications. Mammals have long been diagnosed from all other vertebrates and from very nearly mammalian animals largely on the basis of their jaw-ear structure but there is an even greater significance to jaw joints in the vertebrate evolution. It highlights the underlying mechanisms through which this basic blue print was renovated to produce certain subsequent divergent mammalian feeding adaptations.</p><p>The purpose of this review is to highlight certain mechanisms published in dental literature till date involved in the design of living structure and to show how their mechanisms were implemented in the present adaptation of the human jaw joint.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 20-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116473633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minti Kumari , L.Vamsi Krishna Reddy , Shafaat Mohd , Gaurav Gupta , Manu Narayan , Sarita Singh
{"title":"Oral mucosal lesions among 12- and 15-year-old school going children of Lucknow district – A cross sectional survey","authors":"Minti Kumari , L.Vamsi Krishna Reddy , Shafaat Mohd , Gaurav Gupta , Manu Narayan , Sarita Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><p>Prevalence of oral mucosal lesions and conditions among children of 12 and 15 years of age of Lucknow.</p></div><div><h3>Material and methods</h3><p>1198 school going children were selected by multistage cluster random sampling technique. A total of 594 respondents from urban area and 604 from rural area were surveyed for the present study. Oral mucosal lesions were assessed using WHO Oral Health Assessment form 1997. Chi-square test was used to test the significance of the association between two factors.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p><span>In urban 16 (2.69%) subject had ulceration<span> and 6 (1.01%) had other condition like angular cheilitis<span> and glossitis. In rural 9 (1.49%) had ulceration and 28 (4.63%) had angular cheilitis and glossitis, considering the age group and gender wise no significant differences were noted. There was a statistical significant difference seen in urban and rural group (</span></span></span><em>p</em> < 0.001).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Health education through dental health programs regarding adverse effects of pan chewing should be spread in all schools and colleges.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 16-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92022852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative tooth anatomy – A review","authors":"Anand Bhargavi , Singh Ajay , Bahuguna Rohit , Anand Vishal , Gulati Minkle","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The modern human dentition had experienced an evolutionary change, till the present day. Different kinds of evolutionary, environmental, and cultural factors were responsible for this type of change.</p><p>Various evidences exist which showed that the size of large teeth and jaws had reduced with the development of humans over the last 50,000 years. The main reason for the decrease in evolution was to maintain a large dentition which was due to the changes in the human diet, food preparation, and technology.</p><p>At the top of the ladder, man had evolved as the most complex dental mechanism of all animals. Being omnivorous, <em>Homo sapiens</em><span> had developed teeth to function both in the mastication of meat and plant foods. The elongated and interlocking canines have been reduced in length so that they function with the rest of the teeth in lateral movements, and the individual teeth differ in both size and development from other primates.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 34-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92036684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pleomorphic adenoma of parotid in a 12-year-old child: A case report","authors":"Gunjan Dubey , Rohit Jaiswal , Jagriti Gupta , Fahad Mansoor Samadi , V. Subha Lakshmi","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Salivary gland tumors are estimated to represent approximately 3% of all of the </span>head and neck tumors<span><span>. About 70–80% of these neoplasms occur in major salivary glands, with the </span>parotid gland being the most common affected site. Usually they are found as solitary (unique) unilateral, firm and mobile, slow growing asymptomatic nodules. We report a case of </span></span>pleomorphic adenoma of parotid salivary gland in a 12-year-old male patient.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 38-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.04.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92036685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deciduous tooth wear and associated risk factors in 5–10-year-old school children of Lucknow","authors":"Ashish Choudhary , Sumit Kumar Pal , Kunal Jha , Renuka Verma","doi":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Aim</h3><p>To assess the prevalence of deciduous tooth wear in 5–10-year-old school children in Lucknow and associated risk factors.</p></div><div><h3>Materials and methods</h3><p>A stratified random sample of 210 school going children aged 5–10 years of Lucknow city were chosen. Information regarding the potential risk factors of tooth wear like consumption of carbonated beverages, nail biting etc. was obtained from the parents. Clinical examination was performed using Tooth Wear Index of Smith & Knight (1984). Association between tooth wear and various risk factors was assessed using Chi-square test.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p><span>Majority (81%) of the children had tooth wear. Cuspids were the most commonly affected teeth (52%) followed by molars (34%) and incisors (14%). Significantly higher proportion of children consuming carbonated beverages had tooth wear (</span><em>p</em> = 0.018).</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Tooth wear seems to be a common dental problem affecting the children as reflected in the study and its associated risk factors have to be taken into consideration while addressing it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100695,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Dental Science and Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"Pages 2-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ijdsr.2013.03.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133550918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}