Oral Health Status in Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Descriptive Study in an Italian Population.

Aim: To evaluate the oral health status in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive study was performed on 120 AD patients (60 institutionalized in a public institute and 60 attended a daytime center), from September 2013 to January 2014. About 103 subjects formed the control group.

Effects of audiovisual distraction in children with special healthcare needs during dental restorations: a randomized crossover clinical trial.

Background: Audiovisual distraction using video eyeglasses is useful in managing distress and reducing fear and anxiety in healthy children during dental treatments.

Aim: To evaluate the effect of audiovisual distraction on behavior and self-reported pain of children with special healthcare needs (SHCN) without intellectual disability during dental restorations and its influence on the operator stress and the time of the appointment.

Material And Methods: This randomized controlled crossover trial comprised 48 children with SHCN requiring at least two dental restorations.

Oro-dental features of Pallister-Killian syndrome: Evaluation of 21 European probands.

Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is a rare sporadic multi-systemic developmental disorder caused by a mosaic tetrasomy of the short arm of chromosome 12. A wide range of clinical characteristics including intellectual disability, seizures, and congenital malformations has previously been described. Individuals with PKS show a characteristic facial phenotype with frontal bossing, alopecia, sparse eyebrows, depressed nasal bridge, long philtrum, telecanthus, and posteriorly rotated ears.