Awareness of oral medicine among medical practitioners, evidence of the unbridged interdisciplinary gap.

Rationale, Aims, And Objectives: Inadequate awareness of oral health and related disciplines appears to be common among medical practitioners. This study was designed to evaluate the awareness of oral medicine (OM) specialty and its scope of practice among Jordanian medical practitioners and to outline potential strategies for improvement where appropriate.

Method: A specially designed questionnaire was electronically distributed to Jordanian medical practitioners and thereafter via personal interviews to improve the response rate.

The relationship of Candida colonization of the oral and vaginal mucosae of mothers and oral mucosae of their newborns at birth.

Objective: Vaginal Candida colonization is common during pregnancy. Vaginal Candida may transmit vertically to the mouth of newborns during labor. The aim of this study was to assess and compare oral Candida colonization between vaginally born newborns and cesarean-born newborns and to investigate the association of the mother's vaginal and oral Candida colonization and the newborn's oral colonization at the time of delivery.

The effect of glycemic control on Candida colonization of the tongue and the subgingival plaque in patients with type II diabetes and periodontitis.

Objectives: Identify the relationship between the tongue and subgingival plaque Candida colonization, and its relationship to the quality of glycemic control (assessed by glycosylated hemoglobin) and other confounders, in type II diabetics who have periodontitis.

Study Design: Candida species were isolated from the tongue and subgingival plaque of the 2 deepest periodontal pockets from 78 patients, and were identified by RapID Yeast Plus System. Student's t test, χ(2) test or Fisher's exact test, analysis of variance, multivariate logistic regression analysis, and Spearman's correlation test were used.

Oral Candida colonization and candidiasis in patients with psoriasis.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate oral Candida colonization and candidosis in a group of patients with psoriasis and controls.

Study Design: A total of 100 patients with psoriasis and matched controls underwent the concentrated oral rinse test for Candida isolation. Candida species were identified by the VITEK 2 Identification System.

Association between recurrent aphthous stomatitis and inheritance of a single-nucleotide polymorphism of the NOS2 gene encoding inducible nitric oxide synthase.

Background:  Recurrent aphthous stomatitis is a common ulcerative disease of the oral mucosa. Recurrent oral aphthous ulceration is also a feature of the more serious and systemic Behçet's disease. Nitric oxide is a free radical synthesized by one of a family of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzymes and is an important regulator of inflammation and immunity.

Oral candidal colonization in cleft patients as a function of age, gender, surgery, type of cleft, and oral health.

Purpose: To assess the colonization rate of oral Candida species and the influence of age, gender, oral health status, number of surgeries, and type of cleft.

Patients And Methods: A prospective study of 60 patients with cleft and 60 control subjects was carried out at the Cleft Centre at King Abdullah University Hospital and the Maxillofacial Unit at Jordan University of Science and Technology between October 2007 and June 2008. Oral health was assessed using the Gingival, Plaque, and Decayed, Missing, and Filled (DMFT/dmft) indexes using World Health Organization criteria.

Oral Candida flora in a group of Jordanian patients with beta-thalassemia major.

Objective: Thalassemic patients present with multiple immune abnormalities that may predispose them to oral Candida, however this has not been investigated. The aim of this study was to assess oral candidal colonization in a group of patients with beta-thalassemia major both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Study Design: The oral mycologic flora of 50 beta-thalassemia major patients and 50 age- and sex-matched control subjects was assessed using the concentrated oral rinse technique.