Efficacy of chlorhexidine for the prevention and treatment of oral mucositis in cancer patients: a systematic review with meta-analyses.

Background: Oral mucositis occurs in patients undergoing chemoradiation for cancer treatment. It is believed that colonization of ulcerated mucosa by bacteria, fungi, and virus results in secondary infections. The effect of chlorhexidine on the incidence and severity of oral mucositis in patients with cancer was evaluated in this review.

One-Year Multicenter Prospective Evaluation of Survival Rates and Bone Resorption in One-Piece Implants.

Background: Several studies have reported the efficiency of immediate loading techniques.

Purpose: The aim of this multicenter prospective study was to evaluate the clinical efficiency of the one-piece screw (OPS) implants used by general dentists.

Materials And Methods: A total of 272 patients were treated with 533 implants at five dental clinics by five general dentists.

Oral manifestation of Crohn's disease without concomitant gastrointestinal involvement.

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic relapsing inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology and uncertain pathogenesis with no known cure. CD can involve any segment of the gastrointestinal tract, and oral lesions consistent with granulomatous ulcers are considered an important extra-intestinal manifestation. Oral lesions in the absence of gastrointestinal involvement are rarely reported.

Foreign body in the oral cavity mimicking a benign connective tissue tumor.

Foreign bodies may be embedded in the oral cavity either by traumatic injury or iatrogenically. The commonly encountered iatrogenic foreign bodies are restorative materials like amalgam, obturation materials, broken instruments, needles, and impression materials. This paper describes an asymptomatic presentation of a foreign body in the oral mucosa which clinically appeared like a benign connective tissue tumor.