Dental Anomalies in a Sample of Lebanese Children: a Retrospective Study.

Background: Dental anomalies (DAs) represent a significant chapter in pediatric dentistry with a lot of practical relevance. Both primary and permanent dentitions may be affected.

Objective: The main objective of our study was to evaluate, using digital panoramic radiographs, the prevalence, distribution, and patterns of DAs in a sample of Lebanese children aged between 8 and 15 years old.

Treatments Performed on First Permanent Molars in a Sample of Lebanese Children: A Five-Year Retrospective Analysis.

Background: Dental caries remains one of the most prevalent worldwide chronic diseases and an expensive burden to healthcare services despite significant preventative measures Objective: Dental caries is a multifactorial chronic disease that occurs in early childhood and persists until adulthood. The first permanent molars (FPMs) are the earliest permanent molars to erupt what makes them vulnerable to caries among children and adolescents. Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of different types of treatments performed on FPMs in 7-10-year-old Lebanese patients.

Presentations of Routine Dental Interventions in Children over a Six-Year Period.

Aim: To evaluate over a six-year period, the prevalence of the dental procedures in primary and mixed dentitions, in males and females.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective descriptive study on dental treatments in primary and mixed dentitions was conducted in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Lebanese University, from 2015 to 2020. The total number of children was 1291.

Hereditary Gingival Fibromatosis: A Report of a Severe Case.

Hereditary gingival fibromatosis (HGF) is an uncommon condition characterized by a benign, local, or diffuse gingival overgrowth. It may cover the teeth partially or totally, causing essential aesthetic, phonetic, and masticatory disorders. In this report, we discuss a case of an 11-year-old boy who presented with severe gingival enlargement.

Local and Systemic Effects of Cyclosporine A on the Severity of Gingival Overgrowth in Post-Transplant Renal Patients.

Background: Cyclosporine A (CsA) is a potent immunosuppressant widely used to prevent renal post transplantation rejection. Gingival overgrowth (GO) is among various side effects of the long-term administration of CsA. Up to 90% of the patients under CsA therapy has been reported to develop CsA-induced GO.

Five Years Follow-up of a Spontaneous Eruption of an Impacted Mandibular Premolar Associated with a Dentigerous Cyst Treated by Marsupialization.

Dentigerous cysts (DC) are developmental odontogenic cysts associated with impacted or partially erupted teeth; they can occur at any location of the jaw. Being generally asymptomatic, they are fortuitously discovered when radiographs are taken to investigate a tooth eruption failure. In this report, we present a case of a 10-year-old girl presented with the absence of the right second mandibular premolar and retention of the right second primary molar.

Integrating obstetrical simulation into the medical curriculum: one more gap in women's health for low-income countries.

Low-income countries do not have well-established simulation centers; introduction of simulation-based learning in obstetrics faces many cost-associated difficulties. Simulation-based learning yield many benefits that are reported in many studies such as improved maternal and neonatal outcomes, social stature of medical teachers, and better management of difficult situations. Though low-income countries do not have established surgical simulations, centralization, and cooperation amongst the educational institutions and local and regional hospitals for maintenance of medical educational practices and financial supplementation through both established and newly created entities will provide the potential for improved patient outcomes and maintenance of quality of education, that is, comparable to the medical education found in higher income countries.

Impacted Lower Second Permanent Molars at the Ramus and Coronoid Process: A New Clinical Symptom of the WNT10A Mutation in Ectodermal Dysplasia.

Aim: Hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (ED) with the WNT10A mutation produces variable dentofacial symptoms. The aim of this study was to describe a new clinical symptom, i.e.

Effectiveness of Intellectual Distraction on Gagging and Anxiety Management in Children: A Prospective Clinical Study.

Objectives: The aim of the present prospective study is to determine the effect of an intellectual colored game (ICG) on the severity of gag reflex (GR) and anxiety in children during dental alginate impression.

Materials And Methods: Forty-one children, aging between 5 and 11 years, having a GR varying from normal to moderate had upper alginate impressions. The children's anxiety was evaluated with a facial image scale (FIS) before (T0) and after first failed impression (T1), then, after playing an intellectual colored game (ICG) at T2, while taking an upper alginate impression.

Could Salivary Cyclosporine Dosage Replace the Whole Blood Cyclosporine Measurements in Renal Transplant Patients?

Background: Cyclosporin (CsA) has been extensively used as the immunosuppressant of choice in renal transplantation. Currently available approaches to assess CsA levels, both in serum and blood, fail to accurately reflect the concentration of the pharmacologically active drug fraction. Free CsA levels in biological fluids (blood or saliva) have been advocated to play an important role.

Juvenile Trabecular Ossifying Fibroma of the Maxilla: a Case Report.

Introduction: Juvenile ossifying fibromas are uncommon benign tumors. Their aggressiveness added to their high tendency to recur, provoke real diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for the dental practitioner and make a postoperative follow-up over the years indispensable.

Case Report: In this report, we present a case of a seven-year-old girl presented with a swelling in the face at the upper right maxillary region.

Diode Laser Scalpel in the Treatment of Hereditary Gingival Fibromatosis in a 6-Year Old Boy.

Hereditary gingival fibromatosis (HGF) is a rare disease characterized by a benign enlargement of the gingiva involving both the mandible and the maxilla. This case is about a 6-year-old child with non syndromic HGF showing a severe gingival enlargement covering almost all surfaces of the teeth, in both arches, hence causing major aesthetic, phonetic and masticatory problems. The aim of the present article is to compare the outcomes of two therapeutical approaches: i) classical surgical removal with scalpel; and ii) diode laser resection.

Evaluation of a modified Pulpotec endodontic approach on necrotic primary molars: a one-year follow-up.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a Pulpotec modified endodontic approach on primary molars presenting necrotic pulp and furcation bone loss in a cohort of healthy children.

Materials And Methods: Forty primary necrotic molars in healthy children, aged between 4 and 6 years underwent clinical and radiological assessment. A chemomechanical removal of pulpal necrotic debris was performed with 1% sodium hypochlorite irrigation.

Benefit and tolerability of the coadministration of ezetimibe and atorvastatin in acute coronary syndrome patients.

Background And Aim: The effect of ezetimibe-statin combination on inflammatory markers in acute coronary syndrome is unknown. The aim of our study is to evaluate the effect of this combination on the lipid profile, the CRP hs and the sCD40 ligand levels in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients.

Methods: This is a randomized, double-blind study including 93 patients admitted for ACS randomized in 2 groups, ezetimibe 10 mg + atorvastatin 10 mg vs atorvastatin 20 mg + placebo, for 12 weeks follow-up; blood samples were collected for lipid profile, ALT, AST, CRP and sCD40L at baseline, 12 hours, 4 weeks, and 12 weeks.

Effect of high bolus dose tirofiban on the inflammatory response following percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Tirofiban at the bolus dose of 10 microg/kg does not suppress the inflammatory response following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). This may be due to less than optimal inhibition of platelet aggregation. High bolus dose tirofiban (25 microg/kg) allows better inhibition of platelet aggregation but its anti-inflammatory effect remains unknown.

[Epidemiology of cardiac tumors in adults in Lebanon].

Primary cardiac tumors are rare but potentially fatal. No studies have discussed this issue yet on the national level. We describe the epidemiology of cardiac tumors in adults in Lebanon.

[Control of blood pressure morning surge in a Lebanese hypertensive population].

Objective: The primary endpoint of this prospective clinical study is to ascertain the degree of blood pressure control in the early-morning hours after 8 weeks of treatment with Telmisartan in hypertensive patients using home blood pressure measurements.

Methods: Two hundred forty Lebanese patients with uncontrolled hypertension are enrolled in the study. The blood pressure is measured at the initial visit, then at week 4 of follow-up (optional visit) and after the 8 weeks period, by the physician at his office (with pulse rate) and by the patient at home in the morning.

[Coronary angioplasty for primary cardiogenic shock following acute myocardial infarction].

Background: In the setting of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), several investigators have demonstrated that emergency coronary angioplasty (PTCA) reduces in-hospital mortality of primary cardiogenic shock (CS) from 90% to less than 50% ; however, few studies have focused on the current outcome of non selected patients in whom the onset of AMI is immediately complicated by CS.

Purpose Of The Study: To evaluate in-hospital mortality of the patients admitted to our institution for Q wave AMI presented in CS.

Material And Method: Between 05/93 and 05/03, 30 consecutive pts, 26 men and 4 women, in CS following AMI were treated with direct PTCA, 26 without thrombolysis and 4 as rescue after failed streptokinase.

Effects of clopidogrel on soluble CD40 ligand and on high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Background: Antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel decreases ischemic complication especially in patients with acute coronary syndromes or after percutaneous coronary interventions. Our study was designed to test the effects of clopidogrel on soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40l) and on high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD).

Methods: This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

[Pseudo-Takayasu in Behcet's disease].

Behcet's disease is a chronic multisystem vasculitis that is frequent in Lebanon. The great arteries involvement is rare. We report here an unusual case of subclavian artery occlusion (pseudo-Takayasu) with a literature review.

Pattern of non-ICU inpatient supplemental oxygen utilization in a university hospital.

Random assessments of SaO2 were performed via pulse oximetry in 274 hospitalized non-ICU patients prescribed supplemental O2 in a large tertiary care university hospital. In 507 assessments performed in patients inspiring the prescribed O2, 426 were receiving excessive amounts of O2 to maintain a SaO2 > or = 92 percent. In 233 of these assessments, SaO2 was > or = 92 percent while breathing ambient air.