Restorative dentistry clinical decision-making for hypodontia: peg and missing lateral incisor teeth.

Peg-shaped and missing lateral incisor teeth are common features for patients affected by hypodontia. While improvements in dental appearance may be a strong motivating factor for these patients, providing dental treatment to improve the clinical condition and achieve an acceptable and stable outcome can be complex and lengthy.For patients affected by hypodontia, discussion and consideration of various approaches to their individual treatment are best achieved in a multidisciplinary team environment.

A review of implant provision for hypodontia patients within a Scottish referral centre.

Background Implant treatment to replace congenitally missing teeth often involves multidisciplinary input in a secondary care environment. High quality patient care requires an in-depth knowledge of treatment requirements.Aim This service review aimed to determine treatment needs, efficiency of service and outcomes achieved in hypodontia patients.

Treatment of peri-implant diseases: a review of the literature and protocol proposal.

Unlabelled: Over 100,000 implants were placed in the UK in 2010. As the numbers of patients with implant-retained prostheses increases, operators are encountering an increasing number of biological implant complications, most commonly peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis. The effective management of these complications is crucial to maintain patients' oral health.

External apical root resorption: two case reports.

Aim: To present two cases of external root resorption and in so doing highlight rarer causative factors as well as the difficulties in classifying root resorption.

Summary: Root resorption in the permanent dentition is usually pathological. Local factors are the most frequent causes of resorption, most commonly excessive pressure and inflammation.

An audit of the quality of root canal treatments performed by undergraduate dental students on single-rooted teeth in Glasgow dental hospital and school.

The aim of this investigation was to assess the technical quality of root canal treatments performed by undergraduate dental students on single rooted teeth at the Glasgow Dental Hospital and School. One hundred radiographs of single rooted teeth that had root canal treatment were randomly selected and examined under even illumination in a darkened room using x2 magnification. Of 100 teeth, 20 had voids, and one was perforated.

Interleukin-24, RANTES and CCR5 gene polymorphisms are not associated with chronic adult periodontitis.

Background And Objective: Cytokines, such as interleukin-10, and related genetic polymorphisms, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic periodontitis. The aim of this study was to investigate a possible correlation between chronic periodontitis and genetic polymorphisms coding for two interleukin-10 related chemokines [interleukin-24 and regulated on activation, normal T cells expressed and secreted (RANTES)] as well as a RANTES receptor [CC chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5)].

Material And Methods: A single-blind, two-centre, case-controlled study was carried out with test patients from the Clinic of Periodontics, Göteborg University, and from the Department of Periodontology, Glasgow University, and control subjects from the undergraduate clinics of both schools.

Endodontics and infective endocarditis--is antimicrobial chemoprophylaxis required?

The purpose of this review is to evaluate the evidence implicating nonsurgical endodontic procedures in inducing infective endocarditis (IE). The literature is reviewed and findings about dental procedures that elicit bacteraemia [in particular root canal treatment (RCT)], sequelae of bacteraemia, relationship between IE and RCT and variation between antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) guidelines are highlighted. At present, there is still significant debate as to which dental procedures require chemoprophylaxis and what antibiotic regimen should be prescribed.

Detection of bacteraemias during non-surgicalroot canal treatment.

Unlabelled: Some dental procedures initiate a bacteraemia. In certain compromised patients, this bacteraemia may lead to distant site infections, most notably infective endocarditis.

Objective: To investigate whether a detectable bacteraemia was produced during non-surgical root canal therapy.

To open or to close space--that is the missing lateral incisor question.

Developmentally absent permanent maxillary lateral incisors may be associated with several problems. The decision whether to open or to close the space should involve the patient/parent, orthodontist and restorative dentist. To optimize function and aesthetics, space should be opened using fixed appliances to accommodate an appropriate prosthesis.

Spontaneous regression of an anaplastic large cell lymphoma in the oral cavity: first reported case and review of the literature.

Lymphomas account for 2-5% of all oral malignancies and are the third most common in this site. This case report appears to be the first in the world literature describing spontaneous regression in the oral cavity of a subset of non-Hodgkins lymphomas known as Ki-1 anaplastic large cell lymphomas (ALCL). Ki-1 ALCL account for 2-7% of all non-Hodgkins lymphomas and the clinical presentation is variable; they may arise de novo or in the setting of a separate primary lymphoma and commonly present in the extra-nodal location.