Oral findings in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

Objective: To evaluate the role of dental parameters that may contribute in increasing apneic activity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS).

Method And Materials: A total of 152 subjects (121 males and 31 females ) were examined from October 1999 until September 2001, for sleep disorder symptoms. All patients underwent polysomnography.

Concurrence of torus palatinus with palatal and buccal exostoses: case report and review of the literature.

Exostoses, also known as hyperostoses, are localized bony protuberances that arise from the cortical plate. These developmental anomalies, or hamartomas, frequently affect the skeletal jaw. Different types of exostoses have been described.

Salivary alterations in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

Objectives: To examine the flow rate and composition of unstimulated whole saliva and of serum in children with newly diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and to compare these with values for a group of healthy controls.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Diabetic Department of a University Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece.

[Serum immunoglobulins IgA, IgG and IgM, and oral lichen planus].

Oral lichen planus is a common dermatosis with oral manifestations. It is widely accepted that its unknown pathogenetic mechanism has an immunological background although the exact immune mechanism involved is not clear. In our research we attempted to estimate the participation of humoral immunity in the pathogenesis of the disease, comparing the levels of serum immunoglobulins IgG, IgA and IgM between a group of 24 patients with oral lichen planus and a group of 19 healthy individuals.

Turnover of bacteriuria in old age.

Among 352 residents of a home for the elderly, who were fully mobile and devoid of most predisposing factors for bacteriuria, 19% of men and 27% of women had two positive cultures within two months. Positive conversion at one year among men and women negative at entry was 11% and 23% respectively, negative conversion of bacteriurics 22% and 27%. Subjects bacteriuric at entry but sterile at six months had a 77% (men) and 44% (women) reinfection rate at 12 months.