Dental Sleep Medicine among dental practitioners: Preliminary findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.

Objectives/introduction: Dental sleep medicine (DSM) focuses on oral appliance therapy (OAT) to manage sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), including obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This brief poll aimed to assess the interest and practices of dental practitioners in DSM. To this day lack of data exists regarding how DSM practices function in the clinical setting.

Nutrition, obesity, and dental development in young adolescents in Chicago.

Objectives: Childhood obesity is a systemic disease with multiple downstream consequences, including shifts in timing of growth and development. It has been documented that children with high body mass index (BMI) show accelerated timing of dental development, but the mechanism for this acceleration is unknown. Prior work has suggested that inflammation and/or nutrition may play a role.

Childhood obesity may accelerate timing of human facial growth.

Objective: We hypothesize that childhood obesity influences both facial and mandibular size and form in children and adolescents.

Design: Pre-treatment records of patients (n = 181; 86 males, 95 females) from the Department of Orthodontics at the University of Illinois at Chicago representing six different ancestry groups (Asian, African-American, Caucasian Non-Hispanic, Hispanic, Multiracial, Unknown) were reviewed retrospectively. Body mass index (BMI) scores and categories were calculated using the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

Accuracy of Dental Monitoring 3D digital dental models using photograph and video mode.

Introduction: This study aimed to test the accuracy of the 3-dimensional (3D) digital dental models generated by the Dental Monitoring (DM) smartphone application in both photograph and video modes over successive DM examinations in comparison with 3D digital dental models generated by the iTero Element intraoral scanner.

Methods: Ten typodonts with setups of class I malocclusion and comparable severity of anterior crowding were used in the study. iTero Element scans along with DM examination in photograph and video modes were performed before tooth movement and after each set of 10 Invisalign aligners for each typodont.

Nonpainful phantom sensations in dentistry: an update of etiologic concepts.

Various phantom disorders have been discussed extensively in the medical literature, the most common being phantom limb pain. However, phantom conditions have not received much attention in the dental literature. This article provides a topical review of relevant literature to update current thinking on the etiology of various nonpainful phantom phenomena involving the oral cavity, traces the evolution of these concepts, and offers practical patient management recommendations for dentists.