Estimating the magnitude of different barriers to dental care for special needs patients: A systematic review.

Quite often, it is seen that the number of special care individual in the dental OPD/clinics is quite low, as compared to their population. This can be due to specific barriers that restrict them in availing dental treatment. Our aim was to identify different barriers to dental care of persons with special needs through a systematic review and to quantify them.

Patient acceptability of a wheel chair recliner developed to perform dental procedures at wheelchair itself: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: Transfer from a wheelchair and discomfort in dental chair are two important barriers for access to dental care among wheelchair-bound patients. The authors have devised an automated wheelchair recliner that helps to mimic the dental chair functioning at wheelchair itself. The aim of this study was to analyze the performance and acceptability of wheelchair recliner among wheelchair-bound patients.

An evaluation of the effect of ozone therapy on tissues surrounding dental implants.

Background: Dental implant surgery despite its growing popularity poses several challenges like include tissue inflammation, pain discomfort and tissue injury.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of ozone therapy on inflammation, pain and wound healing after implant surgery.

Methods: A clinical study was conducted on 60 systematically healthy patients- 30 patients treated with ozone (Experimental group) and 30 patients without ozone treatment (control group).