Instructional Videos for Students in Dental Medicine: Rules of Design and Correlations with Their Habits as Internet Consumers.

Unlabelled: Multimedia resources, such as instructional videos, are currently enjoying a certain popularity in the training programs for medical and dental students. The major challenge is to create such resources with quality content that is approved by students. In order to answer this challenge, it is imperative to find out which features of instructional videos are considered to be necessary and useful by students, thus being able to excite them, to hold their attention, and to stimulate them in learning with pleasure.

The Influence of Beverages on Resin Composites: An In Vitro Study.

Dental composites, through their structural diversity, represent the biomaterials frequently used in dental reconstructive therapy. The aim of our study was to observe the influence of different beverage environment conditions on seven types of obturation dental materials with different compositions. Our research focused on the surface modification analysis of the materials after the immersion in the different beverages; in this regard, we used the EDAX technique correlated with the energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (XRF).

Research on the Quality of Partially Removable Skeletal Prostheses Made Using Classical Versus Modern Sintering Techniques.

Conventional partially removable skeletal dentures are one of the most common therapeutic solutions offered to edentulous patients worldwide. The present study aims to compare the skeleton of removable dentures realized via classical techniques to that realized via modern techniques, represented by the laser sintering technique, with the comparative aspects being realized through the evaluation of atomic force microscopy (AFM). A total of 20 metal frameworks made of Co-Cr were sectioned, representing the infrastructure of partially removable skeletal dentures, developed using the classical technique versus the laser sintering technique.

Research Regarding Dental Mobility Phenomena in the Clinical Recognition Diagnosis of Temporomandibular Disorders.

Unlabelled: The main objective of this study is to quantify the implications of the complications of periodontal pathology and dental mobility on the pathology of dysfunctional algo syndrome, a clinical entity with profound implications for the patient's quality of life.

Methodology: Clinical and laboratory evaluation was conducted in the 2018-2022 period, on a group of 110 women and 130 men, aged between 20-69, selected from our practice venue, Policlinica Stomatologica nr. 1 Iasi, Clinical Base of Dentistry Education "Mihail Kogalniceanu" Iasi, "Grigore T.

A Retrospective Clinical Trial Regarding Oral Rehabilitation Diagnosis Strategies Based on Stomatognathic System Pathology.

Introduction: Orofacial pain is a common occurrence in daily dental practice; it is frequently attributed to temporomandibular dysfunction, one of its major causes, followed by pathology of the salivary glands, without avoiding interference at the level of the pain pathways caused by complications of periodontal pathology. The main objective of this study is to identify an important cause of pain in the oral-maxillofacial territory by quantifying the changes at the salivary glandular level using stereological methods. The secondary objective of the present research is to identify the implications of periodontal changes as a consequence of salivary quantitative and qualitative changes, quantified using periodontal indices, on the balance of the temporomandibular joint, dysfunction of it being an important cause of facial pain and having a profound impact on the complex oral rehabilitation algorithm of each clinical case, a condition evaluated with the analysis of the results of the Souleroy questionnaire.

10-Months Study Regarding the COVID-19 Spreading in Romanian Counties.

The paper analyzes the evolution of COVID-19 cases in Romanian counties over a period of 10 months, to highlight possible similarities that may contribute to a better understanding of the spreading pattern. The study uses the numbers of active cases for each county in Romania, as well as Bucharest and the whole country, reported daily by the Romanian Ministry of Health (https://datelazi.ro) between April 2nd, 2020 and January 25th, 2021.

Volumetric Cone Beam Computed Tomography for the Assessment of Oral Manifestations in Systemic Sclerosis: Data from an EUSTAR Cohort.

Background Oral health issues are commonly reported in systemic sclerosis (SSc), comprising a broad spectrum of manifestations, e.g., reduced mouth opening, periodontal disease, increased periodontal ligament (PDL) space width, and mandibular resorption.

Incidence and prevalence of dental-periodontal conditions and edentation in Moldavia.

Unlabelled: The proper rehabilitation of the partially extended edentulous patient should lead to a state of balance between the components of the stomatognathic system and the therapeutic option selected for an as long as possible.

Aim: To outline the importance of a holistic biological perspective on the body-stomatognathic system relationships and the need for complex rehabilitation in view of obtaining a long lasting balance.

Material And Methods: 3340 individuals from urban and rural areas of Iasi County were evaluated.

[Posttherapeutic feed-back evaluation in oral rehabilitation].

Unlabelled: The goal of this study was to assess the subjective post-therapeutic feedback for a group of patients in order to evaluate the possibility of including the psycho-behavioral parameters into the analysis structure of an expert system.

Material And Method: 135 patients diagnosed with class I and II Kennedy edentation, aged between 40 and 89 years old, where clinically examined. All patients filled in structured questionnaires focused on psycho-behavioral parameters.

[Epidemiological aspects of frontal edentation of child and adolescent].

Unlabelled: Increasingly frequency of frontal edentation of children and adolescents, mainly because of dental caries and its complications and other diseases requires closer analysis and a reconsideration of therapeutic attitudes that must be carefully adapted and refined.

Aim: To study the establishment of prevalence and incidence of child and adolescent frontal edentation, identifying its etiology and prospects of restoration of morpho-functional parameters affected, anchored in temporary or permanent solutions, according to age and morpho-functional development of the patient.

Material And Methods: We studied a group composed of 450 patients, aged between 8 and 19 years of age, diagnosed with frontal edentation of different etiologies.

Consensus Report: 2nd European Workshop on Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation for Oral Health Professionals.

Tobacco use has been identified as a major risk factor for oral disorders such as cancer and periodontal disease. Tobacco use cessation (TUC) is associated with the potential for reversal of precancer, enhanced outcomes following periodontal treatment, and better periodontal status compared to patients who continue to smoke. Consequently, helping tobacco users to quit has become a part of both the responsibility of oral health professionals and the general practice of dentistry.

[Study on noninvasive paraclinical evaluation methods according to particular aspects in patients diagnosed with partial dentition].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study quantifies the contribution of the non invasive and minimally invasive methods of paraclinic evaluation corroborated with the clinical aspects, a particularly important element being represented by the inter-relation between the general condition--oral pathology.

Material And Method: The study group was represented by patients with ages between 18 and 35 years, diagnosed with partial edentation, with various problems of the general condition. To the same extent, with concern to the study group a special emphasis was placed on the paraclinical results and the therapeutic trajectories directed by the use of the diagnodent, without ignoring the role the digital radiography has in the diagnostic stage as well as the therapeutic one.

[Clinical aspects of therapeutic options in oral rehabilitation of partially edentulous patients].

Unlabelled: This study aims at identifying practical ways of approaching social cases, and creating a hierarchy of the final functions of restauration.

Material And Method: In 2008 the Clinical Base for Learning from the School of Dental Medicine, Iaşi, recorded for the Partially Stretched Edentation Clinic and Therapy course a prevalence of biterminal partial edentation (Class I Kennedy)-66.39 per cent from the total number of patients, followed by uniterminal edentation (Class II Kennedy), having 40.

[The principal components analysis--method to classify the statistical variables with applications in medicine].

Based on the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors analysis, the principal component analysis has the purpose to identify the subspace of the main components from a set of parameters, which are enough to characterize the whole set of parameters. Interpreting the data for analysis as a cloud of points, we find through geometrical transformations the directions where the cloud's dispersion is maximal--the lines that pass through the cloud's center of weight and have a maximal density of points around them (by defining an appropriate criteria function and its minimization. This method can be successfully used in order to simplify the statistical analysis on questionnaires--because it helps us to select from a set of items only the most relevant ones, which cover the variations of the whole set of data.

[Biomechanical behaviour of oro-maxillofacial prostheses].

The tumor pathology resulted in substance losses and the traumas at facial level are only several aspects that mark patients in a mutilating way, modifying significantly and sometimes irreversibly their behaviour, turning them from active, social people into isolated ones. A prosthesis and so much the more an obturator shall not be worn unless they remake the lost functions and are accepted by the sick person from the psychic viewpoint. The final goal of treatment follows the improvement of the sick person's quality of life and represents a psychological support both for them and for their families.

[The role of the polimers in increased acrylic biomaterials qualities used in prosthetic restaurations].

Unlabelled: This study is aimed at the improvement of the biomaterials used in the field of entirely removable prosthesis quality. One important aspect taken into consideration is the adhering of the Candida albicans fibres, a bacterium frequently met at the oral cavity level of old patients, to different variations of acrylate, in search of ways of counter-attacking this tendency of a very resistant microbian structure.

Material And Methods: A number of 19 test-tubes were made under the shape of thin, rectangular plates, 40 mm long and 20 mm wide and a depth varying from 1.

[Role of computerised programs for the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of partially edendulous patients].

Unlabelled: In order to elaborate a correct plan of diagnosis and find the correct therapeutic solution of election in partial edentulous it would be necessary to use a Support System for Clinical Decisions (SSCD). This may bring many benefits both to the private medical assistance,and to institutions with wider therapeutic, educational and scientific objectives.

Materials And Methods: Using as starting point the ProDent platform of application existing at the Faculty of Dental Medicine from The University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gr.