A retrospective long-term pulpal, periodontal, and esthetic, follow-up of palatally impacted canines treated with an open or closed surgical exposure technique using the Maxillary Canine Aesthetic Index.

Introduction: The primary objective of this study was to compare the aesthetic outcome of palatally impacted canines treated with an open or closed surgical exposure technique using the Maxillary Canine Aesthetic Index (MCAI) at least 1 year after debonding. Secondary objectives were set on the periodontal outcome, tooth color, pulpal status, and self-reported contentment.

Methods: The sample of this retrospective study consisted of 53 patients with an average age of 20 years and 7 months at the time of the investigation.

Facial development, continuous tooth eruption, and mesial drift as compromising factors for implant placement.

The replacement of teeth lost by children because of trauma can be an important indication for early implant therapy. Osseointegrated dental implants, like ankylosed teeth, alter position as growth-related changes occur within the jawbones (displacement, remodeling, mesial drift). Facial growth of the child and even of the adolescent, as well as the continuous eruption of the adjacent anterior teeth, create significant risk of a less favorable esthetic and/or functional outcome.

Pathways in multidisciplinary oral health care as a tool to improve clinical performance.

Purpose: To investigate the optimization of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary oral health care through the introduction of pathways.

Materials And Methods: A prospective randomized clinical trial was carried out in a tertiary referral academic institution. Ninety-one patients admitted for multidisciplinary oral health care from January 1, 2001, to March 31, 2003, were randomized to the test group (n = 50) or to the control group (n = 41).

Mandibular condylar growth alterations after unilateral partial facial paralysis: an experimental study in the rabbit.

In a previous study in the rabbit, the authors defined the macroscopic growth alterations after unilateral partial facial paralysis. Dry skull measurements revealed a reduced premaxillary, maxillary, mandibular, and anterior corpus length with a simultaneous increase in mandibular ramal height on the paralyzed side. The authors hypothesize that these mandibular growth alterations are, among others, caused by alterations in condylar growth activity and that an altered occlusal relationship may be involved in the adaptive condylar growth response after facial paralysis.