Dental and dentofacial problems in a female child with Toriello-Carey -syndrome: changes in 3 years.

Toriello-Carey syndrome is a rare disease whose clinical manifestations are midline facial defects, laryngeal and pharyngeal hypoplasia, cardiac defect, and corpus callosum hypoplasia. Literature states that clinical manifestations are more evident in males. This is the second report in the literature which describes the dental and dentofacial -features in an 8-year-old female patient with Toriello-Carey syndrome.

Mineral trioxide aggregate as a pulpotomy agent in immature teeth: Long-term case report.

This case report aimed to present the long-term clinical performance of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) pulpotomies in immature permanent teeth. Four patients with complicated crown fractures of five maxillary immature central incisor teeth were treated with pulpotomy using gray MTA. An immature mandibular first molar showing signs of reversible pulpitis that was exposed mechanically during cavity preparation was also treated with MTA pulpotomy.

Laryngeal dysfunction and oral hygiene: Any relation?

Objective: The purpose of this study is to establish a relation between poor oral hygiene and laryngeal dysfunction.

Methods: 43 adult patients were divided into two groups according to caries activity and oral hygiene. 18 patients with oral hygiene index score (OHI-S) 0-1 were grouped as the control group (good oral hygiene).

Success rates of mineral trioxide aggregate, ferric sulfate, and formocresol pulpotomies: a 24-month study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the total success rates of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA), ferric sulfate (FS), and formocresol (FC) as pulpotomy agents in primary molars.

Methods: A randomized, split-mouth study design was used in 32 healthy 5- to 7-year-old children with 128 carious primary molars without clinical or radiographic evidence of pulp degeneration. The pulpotomy agents were assigned as follows: Group 1=MTA; Group 2=FS; Group 3=1:5 diluted Buckley's FC; and Group 4=zinc oxide eugenol (ZOE) base.

Cytotoxic effects of calcium hydroxide and mineral trioxide aggregate on 3T3 fibroblast cell line in vitro.

Objectives: To examine the cytotoxic effects of MTA and Ca(OH)2 on 3T3 fibroblasts at different time intervals.

Methods: Confluent cells were cultured with Ca(OH)2 and MTA in six-well plates. Wells with only fibroblasts served as controls.

Staphylococcus aureus transmission through oronasal fistula in children with cleft lip and palate.

Objective: To determine the presence of Staphylococcus aureus in a nasal flora and oral environment, the correlation between frequency of transmission of S. aureus and oronasal fistula size, and the pattern of methicillin resistance on S. aureus strains in children with cleft lip and palate (CLP).