{"title":"[Physically and mentally handicapped child in dental practice].","authors":"N Legon Padilla, L Cardoso Ramos","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In every infant population there is a group of children whose physical and mental status gives rise to a tendency to being rejected in the stomatological practice, either because of fear, or due to lack of knowledge about their personal conditions, their handicaps, the possible complications that could be caused by their treatment and the management of those complications. Aiming at exploring this rather difficult field, some general considerations about these children are dealt with, as well as the possible treatments to be carried out by general stomatologists in primary care and the preventive measures to be taken into account to achieve optimal results.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"255-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13678490","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":"[Results of treatment of cancer of the lip].","authors":"J A Rondón Ayala, R Ayala Izaguirre","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study was carried out in Sancti Spiritus Province in the 1984-1986 period about the results of the treatment of lip cancer. Male patients were the most affected by lip cancer (CIE 8-140) in our series. The place of the tumor was predominantly the lower lip (p less than or equal to 0.001). Surgical treatment was used in 96.8% of the cases and the cuneiform (wedge-shaped) exeresis was the most commonly used method in the early stages of the disease (T1 y T2). Castañón keloplasty was the reconstructive procedure used in 18.7% of the patients. Local sepsis was present in 31.2% of the patients undergoing surgery, occurring most frequently in upper lip tumors.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"331-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781668","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":"[Laser in dentistry. 2].","authors":"C Valiente Zaldivar, M I Garrigó Andreu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A synthesis is made of the literature from the USSR, about the use of laser radiation in stomatology, its biological effects on the tissues, and the results of experimental research in vitro and clinical trials with Soviet-made helium-Neon (HeNe) and carbon dioxide lasers. No comments are made about the parameters of the laser radiation used, since the objective of this article is to provide general information in relation to the advances achieved with this treatment method by the USSR.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"336-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13843252","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}
L Soto Cantero, R Rodríguez Betancourt, V Cano Lavin
{"title":"[Evaluation of a group of finished orthodontic patients treated with the Poussin technic. Eismann method].","authors":"L Soto Cantero, R Rodríguez Betancourt, V Cano Lavin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study was carried out of 73 patients of the Clinic of Orthodontics of the Faculty of Stomatology of Havana, treated with the Poussin technique and discharged. 31 of them had Class I Syndrome, 30 Class II Syndrome and 12 Class III Syndrome. The initial and final models of each patient were subjected to the Eisman method. In this way, the changes occurred after finishing the treatment were determined individually. When analyzing the results it was observed that at the onset of the treatment 91.8% ranked in groups III, IV and V (with moderate, severe and very severe affections), while at the end all the patients were in groups I and II (no affections and mild affections).</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"294-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781661","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":"[Sequelae to fractures of the zygomatic complex. 2].","authors":"J M Díaz Fernández","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A descriptive, longitudinal, prospective and synthetic study was carried out in a five-year period (1981-1985), during which surgical treatment was provided for 520 patients with a zygomatic fracture diagnosis in the Maxillofacial Surgery services of the Saturnino Lora Surgical and Clinical Hospital in Santiago de Cuba. It was shown that sequelae occurred in 9.42% of the patients with this affection, that the aesthetic, ofthalmological, and neurological complications were the most frequent, and that the reconstructive procedure with autogenous materials was the most universal and effective for their treatment. In this connection, conclusions were drawn.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"317-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781664","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":"[Inflammatory cells and periodontal disease].","authors":"C Ortiz Moncada, B García Cruz, M Blanco Granda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study was made of 71 patients treated by means of surgery in the Department of Periodontology of the Provincial Stomatological Clinic of Santiago de Cuba during the September-November 1983 quarter. Gum samples were taken and preserved in 10% formalin. Forty-eight hours later they were processed in the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the Saturnino Lora Clinica-surgical Hospital, in order to observe the intensity of inflammation and the number of cells, classified as scarce, moderate and severe. Also, the epithelial changes were analyzed. The results achieved reveal that lymphocytes and plasmocytes were observed in a larger percent, whereas acanthosis was the most frequent change in the epithelium.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"287-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781767","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":"[Analysis of 520 zygomatic fractures. 1].","authors":"J M Díaz Fernández","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective study in carried out in a five-year period (1979-1983), during which treatment was provided for 520 patients with a zygomatic fracture diagnosis in the Maxillofacial Surgery services of the Saturnino Lora Surgical and Clinical Hospital. It was shown that Group III and IV zygomatic fractures are the most frequent and unstable, and that the latter ones are linked with the magnitude and direction of the displacement and especially with the duration of the course. The single reduction techniques are the most commonly used (76.5%), mainly Lothrop technique. It was found that those fractures for longer than seven days require combined reduction-contention techniques, except for Groups II and V. The combined management most commonly used was the Lothrop-Dingman. For frontozygomatic disjunction fractures 3 therapeutica variants were employed, according to the associated displacement and the postoperative stability. The contention means and method more commonly applied were the Foley catheter and the Jaraba-Kiviranta technique, respectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"302-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781662","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}
F Santana Pérez, G Muñoz Escalona, R Zamora Esnard
{"title":"[Relation between periodontal disease and diabetes mellitus].","authors":"F Santana Pérez, G Muñoz Escalona, R Zamora Esnard","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study is made of a group of 67 persons with diabetes mellitus, over 15 years of age, in order to know the presence and severity of periodontal disease, in relation with degree of oral hygiene, age, duration of the course and degree of metabolic control of diabetes. It was shown that 85.1% of the cases had some form of the periodontal disease, the most frequent of which being advanced periodontitis (34.3%). 100% of the patients had an inadequate oral hygiene. Lack of metabolic control, age and degree of oral hygiene correlated positively with the severity of periodontal disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"277-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781766","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":"[Diagnosis and treatment of ameloblastoma].","authors":"J C Paredes Díaz, L Vergara Piedra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the light of current knowledge, a discussion is made on 10 patients with ameloblastoma operated on in Josina Machel General Hospital, in the People's Republic of Angola. This tumor, which has a high incidence in that country, can be operated on in spite of the shortage of a vailable resources, by means of an autogenous graft. Age, sex, location, course of the disease, and results in this group of patients are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"325-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781666","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}
A Pérez Borrego, L Barrios Felipe, M J Fernández Fregio, R Rodríguez Llanes
{"title":"[Comparative study of the level of health education of primary and secondary teachers].","authors":"A Pérez Borrego, L Barrios Felipe, M J Fernández Fregio, R Rodríguez Llanes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study was carried out on the health education level among primary and secondary school teachers in the municipality of Artemisa, in relation with the prevention of the most frequent oral diseases. So, a sample representing 60% of the universe under study was surveyed. An assessing method was established rating sanitary education levels as good, deficient and poor. Comparisons were made among the different groups--by age, sex, educational level, and negative points which influenced most on the rating in connection with the health education levels. Finally, it is concluded that the health education level is deficient for the largest percent of the group under study.</p>","PeriodicalId":35896,"journal":{"name":"Revista Cubana de Estomatologia","volume":"26 4","pages":"268-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13781765","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}