The clinical performance of chairside caries risk assessment kits.

Objective: Caries risk assessment is an important component of clinical practice. The goal of this project was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of two commercially available kits (the Saliva-Check mutans and the Plaque-Check pH kit; GC-America) in distinguishing caries-active from caries-free individuals. The effect of following instructions not to eat, drink, or perform oral hygiene, prior to testing, was also investigated on the effectiveness of these kits.

In vitro study of the diagnostic performance of the Spectra Caries Detection Aid.

Objective: The Spectra Caries Detection Aid is a fluorescent camera (FC) caries detector device that has been demonstrated to detect occlusal caries extending into dentin with good sensitivity and specificity. This in vitro study examined the diagnostic performance of this device with the goal of defining the numerical reading that best indicates that a tooth has dentin caries.

Methods: Ninety extracted human third molars, that either appeared clinically intact or had early occlusal caries, were used.

[Primary breast tumor and malignant phyllodes tumor of the breast-- two rare cases demonstrated by technetium 99m scintimammography].

Breast cancer can be detected by scintimammography using Tc-99m sestamibi (MIBI). The method is highly accurate, sensitive and specific. Histologically, most of the tumors have been adenocarcinomas.

Burn injuries in the Jeddah area of Saudi Arabia: a study of 319 cases.

Three hundred and nineteen patients with different types of burns were studied at King Fahd Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia over a 2-year period (December, 1985 to December, 1987). Scalding was the most common cause (56.4 per cent) of burn injuries compared with 41.