Current Endodontic Practices among Romanian Dental Practitioners: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Root canal therapy (RCT) is usually performed in Romania by general dentists (GDPs) because they are more readily available and more reasonably priced than endodontists. Concerns have been raised about the quality of RCTs performed by GDPs, possibly due to insufficient equipment or knowledge; therefore, this study aims to investigate current endodontic practices in Romania. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted via a questionnaire distributed to 400 randomly selected Romanian dentists, with 285 fully validated completed responses (71.

Similarity Analysis for Medical Images Using Color and Texture Histogramss.

Medical databases usually contain a significant volume of images, therefore search engines based on low-level features frequently used to retrieve similar images are necessary for a fast operation. Color, texture, and shape are the most common features used to characterize an image, however extracting the proper features for image retrievals in a similar manner with the human cognition remains a constant challenge. These algorithms work by sorting the images based on a similarity index that defines how different two or more images are, and histograms are one of the most employed methods for image comparison.

Oral Mucosa Changes Associated with Wearing Removable Acrylic Dentures.

The main purpose of the study was to highlight the incidence of various changes in the oral mucosa associated with wearing removable acrylic dentures. Materials and method. The study was performed on a total of 45 subjects who presented at the Prosthodontics Clinic and the Oral Rehabilitation Clinic of Craiova Faculty of Dental Medicine during January 2018-May 2020.

Root fractures: epidemiological, clinical and radiographic aspects.

Chronic root fractures are a relative frequent dental condition, occurring both in vital teeth and in teeth with root canal treatment, with a difficult and frustrating diagnosis. Two clinical forms are described: crown-root fractures with crown origin and vertical root fractures with root origin. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of the root fractured extracted teeth in two dental clinics with different profile [oral rehabilitation (OR) and endodontics (E)] and to present some particular aspects of the root fractures.

Morphological and clinical characteristics of the torus palatinus and torus mandibularis in a sample of young and adults' Romanian people.

The oral exostoses are protuberance located on the alveolar surfaces of the jawbones with nodular, flat or pedunculated shape. The purpose of this study was to highlight the variability of the morphological and clinical characteristics of torus palatinus (TP) and torus mandibularis (TM) in a sample of young and adults' Romanian people. The study was conducted on 74 participants examined in Dental Prosthetics Clinic of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania, during October-December 2014.

VEGF, CD105 and α-SMA immunoexpression study in lips squamous cell carcinomas and associated dysplastic lesions.

This study analyzes the microvascular density (MVD) for CD105+ and α-SMA+ vessels and VEGF immunoexpression for 35 oral squamous cell carcinomas and for the associated dysplastic lesions of the lips. CD105+ MVD was superior in the advancing edge compared to the intratumoral area, no matter the analyzed clinico-pathological parameters (gender, age, differentiation degree, tumor stage) (p<0.05), MVD being significantly higher in poorly differentiated carcinomas (p<0.