Comparing Single-Tooth Implant Placement With and Without Allogeneic Soft Tissue Augmentation: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Purpose: To explore the effect of adding an allogeneic soft tissue graft at the time of single implant placement using a fully digital workflow for implant placement and restoration without making either analog or digital impressions.

Materials And Methods: A prospective randomized clinical study was performed enrolling 39 participants requiring single-tooth implants. The patients were randomized into one of two groups: (1) the graft group, which received an allogeneic dermal graft at the time of implant placement (n = 19), or (2) the nongraft group (n = 20).

Informed Consent from a Historical, Societal, Ethical, Legal, and Practical Perspective.

Informed consent is often perceived as a regulatory obligation without recognizing its educational potential in the dynamic provider/patient relationship. This article discusses the complex interaction of ethics, society, and law through a historical and practical perspective. The purpose is to provide general dentists and specialists with a comprehensive understanding of the complexity and practical dimensions of informed consent.

Defining salivary biomarkers using mass spectrometry-based proteomics: a systematic review.

Recent advancements in mass spectrometric proteomics provide a promising result in utilizing saliva to explore biomarkers for diagnostic purposes. However, the issues of specificity or redundancy of disease-associated salivary biomarkers have not been described. This systematic review was therefore aimed to define and summarize disease-related salivary biomarkers identified by mass spectrometry proteomics.

A new form of intraoral delivery of antifungal drugs for the treatment of denture-induced oral candidosis.

Objectives: To monitor the release of the antifungal drugs Fluconazole, Chlorhexidine and a combination of the two from an auto-polymerized poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) denture base resin; and to investigate the effect of the released drugs upon the growth of Candida albicans.

Methods: A high performance liquid chromatography-Ultra violet (HPLC-UV) method was used in the analysis of the released drugs into distilled water from PMMA discs doped with the antifungal drugs Fluconazole (10%), Chlorhexidine (10%) and a combination of the two drugs (5% each). The antifungal efficacy of the released drugs was monitored, microbiologically, employing "well" technique on a Saborauds culture medium inoculated with a resistant strain of Candida albicans.

Applications of Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-Of-Flight (SELDI-TOF) Mass Spectrometry in Defining Salivary Proteomic Profiles.

Recent advancement in mass spectrometry leads us to a new era of proteomic analysis. Human saliva can be easily collected; however, the complexity of the salivary proteome in the past prevented the use of saliva for proteomic analysis. Here we review the development of proteomic analyses for human saliva and focus on the use of a new mass spectrometric technology known as surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF).

The effects of disinfectants on dimensional accuracy and surface quality of impression materials and gypsum casts.

Background: The study aimed to evaluating the effect of disinfecting impression materials on the dimensional accuracy and surface quality of the resulting casts.

Methods: Impressions of a steel die constructed according to ANSI/ADA specification No.18 were made with each of alginate, addition cured silicone, condensation cured silicone and zinc oxide eugenol paste, and disinfected consequently by each of 0.

The relationships of the maxillary central incisors and canines to the incisive papilla in Jordanians.

Aim: The validity of the relationship between the maxillary anterior teeth and the incisive papilla and the pertinence of this relationship to Jordanians was examined.

Methods And Materials: A computerized digital caliper (CDC) tool was developed and used in the measurements which were made on scanned images of dental casts of 298 Jordanians. The distances from a tangent to the labial surface of the central incisors to the midpoint and the posterior border of the incisive papilla were measured.