Finnish inventory data of underwater marine biodiversity.

Since 2004, marine biodiversity inventory data have been systematically collected with diving, video, and benthic sampling methods in Finland. To date, this collection of data consists of more than 194 000 spatially explicit observations, covering more than 280 aquatic genera, representing mainly macroalgae, vascular plants, water mosses, and invertebrates. We describe the data collection and storage methods, data extraction from national databases, and provide potential users a curated, open-access version of the inventory data.

Enhancing Dental Education: Impact of Remote Teaching on Dental Students' Academic Performance in Orthodontics-A Pilot Study.

Objective: Remote teaching strategies have been widely adapted in recent years but their impact on dental students' learning outcomes is less well understood. The aim of this mixed-method pilot study was to examine the impact of remote teaching on undergraduate dental student's learning outcome as assessed by examination performance and student feedback in an orthodontics course.

Methods: Out of the lectures (19 in total), 10 were delivered remotely (live online lecture or video recording) and 9 as traditional classroom teaching in 2023.

Altered oral microbiome, but normal human papilloma virus prevalence in cartilage-hair hypoplasia patients.

Background: Cartilage-hair hypoplasia (CHH) is a rare syndromic immunodeficiency with metaphyseal chondrodysplasia and increased risk of malignancy. In this cross-sectional observational study, we examined HPV status and oral microbiome in individuals with CHH. Oral brush samples were collected from 20 individuals with CHH (aged 5-59 years) and 41 controls (1-69 years).

Early orthodontic treatment in a Finnish public health centre: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The aim of this observational cross-sectional one-centre study was to assess whether the previously described national orthodontic treatment practises and international recommendations are implemented in a public health care centre in Finland. We also assessed early treatment practices and appliances used.

Methods: The study group comprised 801 children born in 2011 and 2012 residing in the Riihimäki health centre catchment area in Finland, representing 80% of the age cohort.

Effects of a 2-Year Early Childhood Vitamin D3 Intervention on Tooth Enamel and Oral Health at Age 6-7 Years.

Introduction: The aim of the study was to compare the effects of a 30 µg/day versus 10 µg/day vitamin D supplementation, given during the two first years of life, on oral health at the age of six to 7 years.

Methods: In 2013-2016, we conducted a randomized, double-blinded, clinical trial from age 2 weeks to 2 years of daily vitamin D3 supplementation (10 vs. 30 µg), including 975 healthy infants.

Examination performance of dentistry students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conclusions: Our results imply that online teaching did not systematically improve or worsen the examination performance of undergraduate students of dentistry. Our findings have important policy implications for educational practices in the future. The observed annual grade variation might reflect the effectiveness of remote teaching, changes in students' performance, or non-systematic grading.

Craniofacial and Craniocervical Features in Cartilage-Hair Hypoplasia: A Radiological Study of 17 Patients and 34 Controls.

Background: Biallelic mutations in the non-coding RNA gene cause Cartilage-hair hypoplasia (CHH), a rare skeletal dysplasia in which the main phenotypic characteristic is severe progressive growth retardation.

Objective: This study compared the cranial dimensions of individuals with CHH to healthy subjects.

Methods: Lateral skull radiographs of 17 patients with CHH (age range 10 to 59 years) and 34 healthy individuals (age range 10 to 54 years) were analyzed for relative position of the jaws to skull base, craniofacial height and depth, as well as vertical growth pattern of the lower jaw, anterior cranial base angle, and the relationship between the cervical spine and skull base.

Longitudinal analysis of the quality of orthodontic treatment outcome and stability of occlusal traits.

Objectives: To assess the quality and stability of orthodontic treatment outcome relative to the initial malocclusion.

Material And Methods: The study was performed in one public health care clinic in Finland. Study subjects comprised 51 orthodontic patients (age range 12.

Dental and dentoalveolar dimensions in individuals with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Objective: This cross-sectional study compared tooth and dental arch dimensions of individuals with Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and healthy controls.

Material And Methods: The 37 OI patients and 37 controls were aged 10 to 74 years. Mesio-distal tooth size, dental arch dimensions, and palatal height were measured from dental models.

Treatment compliance of adolescent orthodontic patients with headgear activator and twin-block appliance assessed prospectively using microelectronic wear-time documentation.

Background: Success of orthodontic removable appliance treatment relies on patient compliance. The aim of this quantitative and qualitative study was to explore the compliance and self-reported experience of adolescents in orthodontic treatment with headgear activator (HGA) or twin-block (TB) appliance.

Materials/methods: The study group comprised 52 adolescents with a mean age of 12.

Is sleep apnea underdiagnosed in adult patients with osteogenesis imperfecta? -a single-center cross-sectional study.

Background: Patients with Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) suffer from increased bone fracture tendency generally caused by a mutation in genes coding for type I collagen. OI is also characterized by numerous co-morbidities, and recent data from questionnaire studies suggest that these may include increased risk for sleep apnea, a finding that lacks clinical evidence from cohort studies. In this cross-sectional study, 25 adults with OI underwent clinical otorhinolaryngology examination as well as overnight polysomnography to address the question.

Fatigue and disturbances of sleep in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta - a cross-sectional questionnaire study.

Background: Persisting fatigue has been reported to be a common complaint by individuals with connective tissue disorders, including Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). This controlled study evaluated in an adult OI population the subjective experience of fatigue, affecting daily life. Sleep disturbances and chronic pain were examined as hypothesized underlying factors.

Timing of dental development in osteogenesis imperfecta patients with and without bisphosphonate treatment.

Bisphosphonates have established their role as medical therapy for pediatric osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) patients. Since bisphosphonates have also been shown to delay tooth development in animal models, we aimed to assess whether the medication has a similar effect on children with OI. In this cross-sectional study, bisphosphonate-treated OI patients of whom dental panoramic tomograph was taken between 3 and 16years of age formed the study group.

Cranial base pathology in pediatric osteogenesis imperfecta patients treated with bisphosphonates.

Object: Cranial base pathology is a serious complication of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Our aim was to analyze whether bisphosphonate treatment, used to improve bone strength, could also prevent the development of craniocervical junction pathology (basilar impression, basilar invagination, or platybasia) in children with OI.

Methods: In this single-center retrospective study the authors analyzed the skull base morphology from lateral skull radiographs and midsagittal MR images (total of 94 images), obtained between the ages of 0 and 25 years in 39 bisphosphonate-treated OI patients.

Association between joint hypermobility, scoliosis, and cranial base anomalies in paediatric Osteogenesis imperfecta patients: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Background: Joint hypermobility is a common clinical characteristic of patients with Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a disorder with serious comorbidities of scoliosis and cranial base anomalies. This study aimed at evaluating how prevalent joint hypermobility is in paediatric OI patients, and to find out whether it serves as a potential predictive marker of the different spinal complications; scoliosis and craniovertebral anomalies (basilar impression and basilar invagination).

Methods: In this cross-sectional one-center study we analysed retrospectively clinical patient records and radiographs of 47 OI patients, aged 1-19 years, some of whom were treated with bisphosphonates.

Prevalence and natural course of craniocervical junction anomalies during growth in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Pathology in the craniocervical junction is a serious complication of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Our aim was to analyze the prevalence and natural course of craniocervical junction anomalies in patients with OI during growth. In a one-center retrospective study, we analyzed lateral skull radiographs and midsagittal magnetic resonance images of 76 patients with either type I, III, or IV OI.

Cranial base abnormalities in osteogenesis imperfecta: phenotypic and genotypic determinants.

Cranial base abnormalities are an important complication of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a hereditary bone fragility disorder that in most patients is caused by mutations affecting collagen type I. To elucidate which clinical characteristics are associated with the occurrence of cranial base abnormalities in OI, we compared cephalometric results of 187 OI patients (median age 12.0 years, range 3.

Dimensions of the craniocervical junction in longitudinal analysis of normal growth.

Introduction: Abnormal configuration of the craniocervical junction in the form of basilar impression or invagination, with often-associated platybasia, is a clinically significant cause of neurological symptoms particularly in patients with inherited diseases affecting the connective tissue. To better understand the course of development of these basilar abnormalities and further define their diagnostic criteria in children, we analysed longitudinally changes in the vertical dimensions of the craniocervical junction and in the flexion of the anterior skull base in normal growing individuals.

Methods: The distance of the odontoid process to four reference lines and the anterior skull base angle was measured in consecutive series of at least five lateral skull radiographs of 30 females and 23 males.