Efficacy and Safety of Probiotics for Dental Caries in Preschool Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: Early childhood caries is one of the most serious and high-priced oral health conditions among young children. With advancing dental sciences, the focus of dental caries treatment is shifted from restorative procedures to preventive measures, and a modality grabbing attention is probiotics. Probiotics exert their effects in many ways as chemical inhibition of pathogenic bacteria and stimulation of the immune response through the production of immunoglobulin A and many more.

"Piezosurgery vs bur in impacted mandibular third molar surgery: Evaluation of postoperative sequelae".

Purpose: Piezosurgery is a relatively novel, precise and safe technique of ostectomy in the domain of oral and maxillofacial surgery. Our aim was to compare the inflammatory outcomes of osteotomy using piezosurgery and conventional bur in impacted mandibular third molar (IM3M) surgery.

Subjects And Method: The study implemented a randomized, double-blind, crossover design.

Touch Imprint Cytology: Can It Serve as an Alternative to Frozen Section in Intraoperative Assessment of Cervical Metastasis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma?

Purpose: The purpose was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of touch imprint cytology (TIC) compared with frozen section (FS) analysis as an intraoperative diagnostic tool to assess nodal metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Materials And Methods: We intraoperatively assessed 38 patients undergoing neck dissection for oral squamous cell carcinoma, wherein a total of 248 nodes were sectioned and subjected to TIC and, subsequently, FS analysis and were finally submitted to the gold-standard histopathologic examination. The sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive values (PPVs), and negative predictive values (NPVs) of TIC and FS analysis for the detection of metastasis in the cervical nodes were determined with the corresponding 95% confidence intervals.

Borle's triangle: A reliable anatomical landmark for ease of identification of facial nerve trunk during parotidectomy.

Purpose: An accurate understanding of the anatomy, identification and preservation of facial nerve is critical in performing successful functional parotidectomies. The current literature is replete with inconsistencies of various landmarks when used alone for identification of facial nerve trunk (FNT). The purpose of the paper is to introduce a new anatomical triangle, Borle's triangle (BT) for safer and reliable operative identification of FNT during parotodectomies.

Concomitant Association of Oral Submucous Fibrosis and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Incidence of Malignant Transformation of Oral Submucous Fibrosis in a Population of Central India: A Retrospective Study.

Aim: To evaluate the incidence of oral squamous cell carcinoma concomitant with oral sub mucous fibrosis in central India and to correlate precipitating factors associated with oral submucous fibrosis and oral squamous cell carcinoma. This paper also aims to study the incidence of oral squamous cell carcinoma arising secondary to untreated oral submucous fibrosis.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred and twenty five cases of oral squamous cell carcinoma and one hundred and nineteen cases of oral submucous fibrosis of various regions in oral cavity were included in the study.

Microbiology and antibiotic sensitivity of head and neck space infections of odontogenic origin.

This paper aim to assess the anatomical spaces of head and neck region and causative microorganisms responsible for infections, evaluate the resistance of antibiotics used in treatment and compare the findings with previously reported microbial flora in the orofacial infection. Forty-two patients were recorded. All underwent surgical incision and drainage, received antibiotics cover, and had culture and sensitivity test performed for gram positive and gram negative aerobes.

Custom made protective appliance for oral submucous fibrosis.

Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic, debilitating disease characterized by gradually increasing fibrosis of oral cavity and pharynx, mainly the buccal mucosa, resulting in trismus. Various flaps have been used to reconstruct the surgical defects following excision of fibrous bands. It is inevitable to prevent these flaps from trauma by occlusion.

Transmylohoid/Submental Endotracheal Intubation in Pan-facial Trauma: A Paradigm Shift in Airway Management with Prospective Study of 35 Cases.

The present study was planned to assess the efficacy, utility and complications of transmylohoid intubation in facial polytrauma patients, by setting and design: prospective study. This study was conducted between May 2008 and May 2011 and 35 patients of facial polytrauma were included irrespective of sex, caste and religion. All the selected 35 patients were male and the age of patients ranged between 15 to 45 years (mean age 31 years).

Cephalometric norms for Central Indian population using Burstone and Legan analysis.

Background: Lateral cephalometric standards of normal Central Indian adults having class I occlusion and acceptable facial profile were studied using the Burstone and Legan comprehensive cephalometric analyses that are specific for orthognathic surgery.

Aim: To study normal dentofacial patterns of adult population belonging to Central India.

Materials And Methods: Cephalometric radiographs of 76 Central Indian adults (38 males and 38 females) having class I occlusion with acceptable facial profile were analyzed, and the mean values of their hard and soft tissue measurements were compared with those of Caucasian adults as reported in the literature.

TMJ Ankylosis: Multidisciplinary Approach of Treatment for Dentofacial Enhancement-A Case Report.

This report describes the multidisciplinary phasewise treatment of a 20-year-old female patient having unilateral right TMJ bony (true) ankylosis whose mouth opening was restricted to 2 mm and mandibular retrognathism; additionally, she was also suffering from speech problems, snoring, difficulty in breathing, and low level of self-esteem and self-confidence. Bilateral gap arthroplasty and temporalis myofascial graft interpositioning through preauricular approach were done in surgical phase followed by the aggressive jaw physiotherapy in postsurgical period. Oral prophylaxis and restorations were followed by the fixed orthodontic therapy to resolve bimaxillary protrusion.