Oral Hygiene Status and Gingivitis in Overweight and Obese Children.

Introduction: Obesity poses a significant health risk to our society with prevalence that has dramatically increased in children. Obesity and periodontal diseases share many common risk factors.

Aim: To study the oral hygiene status and prevalence of gingivitis in children with increased body mass index.

Revascularization of immature non-vital permanent teeth--literature review and a case study.

Apical periodontitis in permanent children's teeth with incomplete root development is a challenge for endodontists to treat. It is important that highly efficient therapeutic methods and biologically valuable therapies be developed to prevent the loss of these teeth. The AIM of the study was to review modern literature on revascularization of non-vital permanent teeth with incomplete root development, and to present a clinical case.

Aesthetic perception of dental fluorosis--opinions of dentists and non-specialists.

Unlabelled: Aesthetic perception of the changes in teeth appearance is one of the factors that makes a person undertake a dental treatment.

Objective: The aim of this study was to survey dentists' and non-specialists' aesthetic perception of dental fluorosis.

Patients And Methods: We recruited 120 young people (age range 18-22 years with little knowledge of dental fluorosis and 120 randomly selected dentists.

Comparative study of dental caries and dental fluorosis in populations of different dental fluorosis prevalence.

Introduction: There is evidence that the prevalence of dental fluorosis in many countries has increased over the last three decades along with a noted decrease of dental caries. To date no comparative studies of dental caries and dental fluorosis have been conducted in Bulgaria reflecting the present-day conditions of life.

Aim: To study comparatively the prevalence of dental fluorosis and dental caries and to establish what relationship, if any, there is between them.

Molar incisor hypomineralisation in 7-to-14-year old children in Plovdiv, Bulgaria--an epidemiologic study.

Introduction: Molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH) is a developmental disturbance of enamel affecting the first permanent molars and permanent incisors. The epidemiological evidence on MIH prevalence shows it to be in the range of 3.6 to 25%.

Changes in the appearance and form of the spots of macula cariosa alba in treatment with fluoride gel.

Aim: The aim of this study was to establish the changes in the appearance of the surface and in the form of the carious spots in the treatment of acute initial caries with fluoride gel.

Material And Methods: Clinical observation on 182 white carious spots in 27 children from 7 to 16 years of age was conducted for a period of 12 months. Two groups were formed--experimental (112 spots) and control (70 spots).

Comparative age study of the risk of demineralization during orthodontic treatment with brackets.

Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the hypothesis of a higher risk of demineralization in regions adjacent to brackets at earlier age.

Methods: A prospective cohort study of 42 persons (22 persons aged 11-15 years and 20 persons aged 19-24 years) in the process of orthodontic treatment with brackets was performed. The duration of the observation was 18 months.

Treatment of incipient caries in children with fluoride gel.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the treatment of acute incipient caries in children with fluoride gel by following up the development of the white carious spots.

Methods: Clinical observation on 182 white spot carious lesions in 27 children aged 7 to 16 was carried out for 12 months in two groups--experimental and control. The experimental group received 4 applications of 0.