Efficacy of benzocaine and lidocaine bioadhesive patches in various minor oral surgical procedures in children - An evaluative study.

Context: The key to successful management of a child in the dental clinic depends greatly on providing painless anaesthesia. Topical anaesthesia using bioadhesive patches may be a breakthrough in this field.

Aims: The purpose of the study was to compare the efficacy of Benzocaine and Lidocaine bioadhesive patches in reducing pain associated with various minor oral surgical procedures in children.

Barriers to dental care for children with special needs: General dentists' perception in Kerala, India.

Introduction: Special children are among the underserved dental patient groups around the globe. Oral health care for disabled children remain an unmet challenge. One out of two persons with a significant disability cannot find a professional resource to provide appropriate dental care.

Clinical Evaluation of Conventional Radiography, Radiovisiography, and an Electronic Apex Locator in Determining the Working Length in Primary Teeth.

Purpose: This study's purposes were to: (1) compare the accuracy of conventional radiography (CR), radiovisiography (RVG), and the Root ZX mini apex locator (EAL) in determining the working length in primary teeth; and (2) determine the effect of wet/dry conditions on the accuracy of the EAL.

Methods: Twenty-two children (six to 15 years old), with 41 root canals of primary teeth with or without resorption indicated for extraction, were selected. CR and RVG were used to determine the working length, followed by EAL, according to the manufacturer's instructions in both dry and wet fields (saline).

A rare benign odontogenic neoplasm: peripheral odontogenic fibroma.

The peripheral odontogenic fibroma is a relatively rare, benign, unencapsulated and gingival mass of fibrous connective tissue, considered to be the extraosseous counterpart of the central odontogenic fibroma. Peripheral odontogenic fibroma was earlier quite commonly confused with peripheral ossifying fibroma, until WHO classification (1992), classified it under odontogenic tumours. Peripheral odontogenic fibroma is seen so infrequently that little is known about this neoplasm; the largest series of cases have been that of Farman who found five cases in the literature and added another 10 cases.

Comparison between Silk Sutures and Cyanoacrylate Adhesive in Human Mucosa- A Clinical and Histological Study.

Background: Closing the surgical incision is an important step in the surgical procedures, the success of surgery is sometimes compromised by the defective suturing techniques or improper suturing materials, black silk sutures are more or less most often used materials in the day today surgical procedures, but these suture materials demand more time and effort from the surgeon and there is a need to substitute these materials with more user friendly and more successful wound closing materials such as cyanoacrylates. This study intends to compare effectiveness of the black silk sutures with cyanoacrylate adhesives in closing the surgical incisions.

Materials & Methods: 10 patients of age group between 15-30 years who underwent bilateral apicoetomy were given 3-0 black silk sutures on one side and n-butyl-2cyanoacrylate adhesive on the other side of the frenum to close the surgical incision, and a clinical comparison was made on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 7th post-operative days, on the seventh postoperative day following removal of sutures, small punch biopsies were obtained from both the sites and the tissue specimens were examined under transmission electron microscope.