Assessing Tele-Oral Medicine in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study on Specialists' Experiences and Effectiveness in Oral Healthcare.

Introduction: Teledentistry is an emerging tool to exchange medical information and clinical images to facilitate the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of oral diseases and patient assurance and education. Considering the shortage of oral medicine specialists in Saudi Arabia, this study aims to assess the experiences of dental specialists with tele-oral medicine and its potential applicability in addressing this shortage.

Materials And Methods: This was a pilot, cross-sectional study conducted among specialists in the field of oral medicine from January 2020 to March 2020.

Bee venom and its active component Melittin synergistically potentiate the anticancer effect of Sorafenib against HepG2 cells.

There are current attempts to find a safe substitute or adjuvant for Sorafenib (Sorf), the standard treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), as it triggers very harsh side effects and drug-resistance. The therapeutic properties of Bee Venom (BV) and its active component, Melittin (Mel), make them suitable candidates as potential anti-cancer agents per-se or as adjuvants for cancer chemotherapy. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the combining effect of BV and Mel with Sorf on HepG2 cells and to investigate their molecular mechanisms of action.

The application of teledentistry for Saudi patients' care: A national survey study.

Background/purpose: Teledentistry has emerged as a new communication tool in various dental disciplines around the world. The aim of this study was to investigate the applicability and reliability of teledentistry in the field of diagnostic dentistry and explore the perception of Saudi dentists of its benefits and concerns.

Materials And Methods: An electronic survey with 40 questions was developed, validated and distributed electronically by email and social media channels to dentists from different specialty in Saudi Arabia.

Medication-Induced Oral Hyperpigmentation: A Systematic Review.

Background: Medication-induced oral hyperpigmentation is an oral condition that impacts patients' quality of life and has been linked to many systemic therapeutic agents. The exact pathogenesis of tissue pigmentation varies greatly and is not completely known. This systematic review aimed to present data on the causal association between medications and the development of oral/mucosal pigmentation as an adverse drug reaction.

Hair straightening products and the risk of occupational formaldehyde exposure in hairstylists.

Hair straitening products are widely used by hairstylists. Many keratin-based hair smoothing products contain formaldehyde. This study aimed to investigate occupational formaldehyde exposure among hairstylists dealing with hair straightening products and the relation between genotoxicity biomarkers and the short-term formaldehyde exposure concentrations and the working years.

Uterine artery flow velocity waveform (FVW) type and subednometrial vascularity in recurrent pregnancy loss.

To assess the subendometrial and uterine artery blood flow and pattern of the waveform of the uterine artery in cases of recurrent pregnancy loss compared with normal controls. Fifty women with a history of two or more successive pregnancy losses were investigated by Doppler transvaginal ultrasound to assess the subendometrial blood flow resistance index (RI), type of Doppler waveform of the uterine artery, and uterine artery pulsatility index (PI) in the mid-luteal phase. Fifty normal women acted as controls.

Combined measurement of fetal lung volume and pulmonary artery resistance index is more accurate for prediction of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome in preterm fetuses: a pilot study.

Objective: The objective of this study is to estimate optimal cut-off values for mean fetal lung volume (FLV) and pulmonary artery resistance index (PA-RI) as non-invasive measures to predict neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in preterm fetuses.

Methods: A prospective study conducted at Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital, Egypt from May 2015 to July 2017: 80 eligible women diagnosed with preterm labor were recruited at 32-36 weeks' gestation. Before delivery, three-dimensional ultrasound was used to estimate FLV using virtual organ computer-aided analysis (VOCAL), while PA-RI was measured by Doppler ultrasonography.

Prediction of Fetal Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Diabetic Pregnancies Compared with Postnatal Outcome.

Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the accuracy of prenatal assessment of interventricular septum (IVS) thickness, right myocardial wall thickness (RMWT), and left myocardial wall thickness (LMWT) by two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound for the prediction of perinatal mortality and postnatal diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) among diabetic pregnant women.

Subjects And Methods: A total of 120 diabetic pregnant women at 35 weeks or more were enrolled in this study from January 1, 2012, to June 30, 2014, at Ain Shams Maternity Hospital, Cairo, Egypt. The 2D ultrasound was done once for all the participants at the time of recruitment; IVS thickness, RMWT, and LMWT were measured.

Prediction of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome in term pregnancies by assessment of fetal lung volume and pulmonary artery resistance index.

Objective: To develop reference cutoff values for mean fetal lung volume (FLV) and pulmonary artery resistance index (PA-RI) for prediction of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in low-risk term pregnancies.

Methods: As part of a cross-sectional study, women aged 20-35 years were enrolled and admitted to a tertiary hospital in Cairo, Egypt, for elective repeat cesarean at 37-40 weeks of pregnancy between January 1, 2012, and July 31, 2013. FLV was calculated by virtual organ computer-aided analysis, and PA-RI was measured by Doppler ultrasonography before delivery.

Feasibility of prediction of cesarean section scar dehiscence in the third trimester by three-dimensional ultrasound.

Purpose: To assess the role of three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound mutiplanar view in prediction of cesarean section (CS) scars dehiscence.

Subjects And Methods: One hundred pregnant women with previous CS scars were investigated by ultrasound to measure the scar thickness by 2D ultrasound and to depict the uterine wall by 3D coronal plane, using 3D multiplanar view. Straight line cut section by 3D multiplanar view was used and prediction of dehiscence was by detecting fenestration of the wall.

Evaluation of simvastatin grafting around immediate dental implants in dogs.

Introduction: Simvastatin (Zocor; MSD), a cholesterol-lowering drug, is used systemically in treatment of osteoporosis due to its bone-forming potential. The present study was conducted to evaluate the regenerative potential of an optimized simvastatin formulation as a grafting material around immediate dental implants in experimental animals.

Materials And Methods: The drug was formulated as granules in cellulosic polymeric matrix.

Three-dimensional power Doppler indices of preeclamptic placentas correlated to umbilical artery Doppler and albuminuria.

Unlabelled: Abstract Purpose: To obtain three-dimensional power Doppler (3DPD) indices of placenta in pregnancies complicated with preeclampsia compared to normal pregnancies and correlated to umbilical artery Doppler and albuminuria.

Methods: A case-control study was conducted at Ain Shams University Maternity Hospital. Evaluation of placental vascular indices, vascularization index (VI), flow index (FI) and vascularization flow index (VFI), was done using 3DPD in 80 preeclampsia pregnancies compared to 80 normal controls.

Helicobacter pylori and anemia with pregnancy.

Subjects And Methods: Study was conducted in Ain Shams University hospitals on 100 pregnant women with iron-deficiency anemia (IDA), including 50 cases infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and 50 cases negative for H. pylori infection.

Clinical efficacy of new aloe vera- and myrrh-based oral mucoadhesive gels in the management of minor recurrent aphthous stomatitis: a randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled study.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy, and safety of newly customized natural oral mucoadhesive gels, containing either aloe vera or myrrh as active ingredients, in the management of minor recurrent aphthous stomatitis (MiRAS).

Subjects And Methods: Ninety subjects with MiRAS were recruited from Oral Medicine Clinic, at Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, for this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Two new natural gels, containing aloe vera and myrrh, were prepared in a concentration of (0.

Endometrial/uterine corporeal volume ratio (EV/UCV) as predictor of malignancy in women with postmenopausal bleeding.

Objective: To evaluate the role of endometrial/uterine corporeal volume ratio for the prediction of endometrial malignancy in cases of postmenopausal bleeding.

Methods: Endometrial volumes and uterine body volumes excluding cervices measured by VOCAL (virtual organ computer-aided analysis) were estimated in 160 women with postmenopausal bleeding. Endometrial/uterine corporeal volume ratios were calculated for all.

Role of Helicobacter pylori in the pathogenesis of hyperemesis gravidarum.

Purpose: To evaluate the role of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) in the pathogenesis of hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) and the value of adding a non teratogenic regimen for its treatment in intractable cases.

Methods: Eighty hyperemesis gravidarum cases were recruited from Ain Shams University out patient clinics.

Adnexal mass vascularity assessed by 3-dimensional power Doppler: does it add to the risk of malignancy index in prediction of ovarian malignancy?: four hundred-case study.

The Risk of Malignancy Index (RMI) is used for the prediction of ovarian malignancy. It includes menopausal status, carbohydrate antigen 125 serum levels, and ultrasound criteria. Three-dimensional power Doppler (3-DPD) is a reproducible investigation for assessment of tumor vascularity, classifying vascularity to avascular, parallel, and chaotic patterns.