The increase in life expectancy in Switzerland is  posing new challenges, as more and more people  are becoming depend…

Curbing the routine use of preventive antibiotics before dental work may have contributed to a rise in heart valve in…

A recent U.S. study of almost 2,000 adult smokers has revealed that people who smoke a cigarette upon waking in the m…

Trismus is a restriction in the ability to open the mouth. Trismus can occur following trauma, surgery, radiation ther…

Triclosan is a popular antibacterial chemical that has been on the market for more than 40 years and found in everyth…

Ionizing radiation causes damage to normal tissues located in the field of radiation. Oral mucositis may result from …

We report the case of an elderly female patient who presented with dangerous space emphysema occurring after  a dental…

Apert syndrome is a rare type I acrocephalosyndactyly syndrome characterized by craniosynostosis, severe syndactyly o…

Cleft Lip and Palate is one among the most common congenital abnormalities of the orofacial region. This condition de…

Orthodontic microscrews (OMSs) are widely used in contemporary orthodontics. However, they exhibit a relatively high …

The etiology of odontogenic keratocyst tumor (KCOT) consists of the remnants of dental lamina (Philipsen, 1956). Matc…

Mononucleosis is an infection caused by the EpsteinBarr  virus. You may have heard it called “mono,”  “Epstein- Barr v…

The most common objectives of an orthodontic treatment are facial and dental aesthetics  and the improvement in the ma…

Let’s Talk About Mouth Cancer is a Scottish charity set up by a group of healthcare professionals with the aim of imp…

Generally, many adolescents have a difficult time maintaining proper oral hygiene, and this challenge becomes even ha…

This article describes the orthodontic treatment of an adolescent patient  presenting a class II skeletal, convex prof…