The yield of respiratory viruses detection testing is age-dependent in children with acute otitis media.

Background: Studies of nasopharyngeal secretions serve as reliable surrogate to evaluate the involvement of viruses in acute otitis media (AOM) and upper/lower respiratory tract infections (URIs/LRIs). We explored nasopharyngeal viral studies from children with uncomplicated AOM and examined their cost-effectiveness in relation to their age.

Methods: We identified children aged 0-6 years admitted to our pediatrics department in a university-affiliated, secondary hospital with uncomplicated AOM and concurrent URI/LRI between 2012 and 2017, during October-April, when viral studies are performed.

Conservative adjunct to esthetic orthodontic treatment in young patients.

The esthetic effect of orthodontic treatment in young patients may sometimes be incomplete without performing additional procedures related to the form and texture of the anterior teeth. Six young patients, aged 7 to 21 years, presented for orthodontic treatment to improve their dental esthetics. The problems of tooth staining, mutilation, congenitally missing teeth, tooth size/arch length discrepancy, and sequellae of dental trauma neccessitated a combined orthodontic-prosthodontic treatment.

Analysis of lateral tooth movement during forced orthodontic eruption.

Statement Of Problem: Forced eruption is a prosthodontic procedure that enables the treatment of otherwise problematic restorative conditions. During the vertical orthodontic movement, the root may be moved laterally, affecting the position of a tooth in the arch.

Purpose: This study quantified the degree of lateral movement possible during the eruptive procedure and addressed the significance of this movement from a theoretical and clinical standpoint.

A laboratory assessment of enamel hypoplasia of teeth with varying severities of dental fluorosis.

The effect of lifelong exposure to drinking-water containing fluoride on tooth enamel microhardness was investigated. Dental fluorosis of teeth from adult subjects, who lived continuously since birth in areas characterized by the hot climate of India, supplied by drinking-water containing between 0.5 and 8.

The effect of composite resin application and radiation techniques on dye penetration in Class II direct composite resin restorations.

This study examined the effect of the application of resin composite and radiation techniques on dye penetration in class II direct composite resin restorations. For the restorative procedure, the light-cone and the incremental layering techniques were used. The null hypothesis of this experiment was, that both techniques have the same influence on dye penetration.