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  • * The success of prosthetic appliances depends on factors like the patient's adaptability, remaining teeth, bony structure, and existing mucosa, while maxillary defects often arise from surgery or trauma.
  • * In treating palatal defects, prosthodontists aim to close the defect and separate the oral cavity from sinonasal openings, sometimes using a hollow bulb design to enhance retention by counteracting gravitational forces.
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Introduction: The clinician's skill, impression techniques, and materials play a very important role in recording fine details in an impression for accuracy of fixed partial denture prosthesis. Impression of prepared teeth and of the opposing arch can be recorded simultaneously by dual-arch trays, while the full arch metal trays are used for impressions of prepared teeth in one arch.

Aim: To measure and compare the accuracy of working dies made from impressions with metal and plastic dual arch trays and metal full arch trays, for two viscosities of impression material and by changing the sequence of pour of working and non-working sides.

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Background: Dental caries is the most common dental problem among the mentally challenged children. There are various extra-oral factors responsible for high caries experience among such children.

Aim: The aim of the present investigation was to study the impact of various extra-oral factors on dental caries experience among mentally challenged children residing in Bhopal city, Central India.

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GHB acid: A rage or reprive.

J Adv Pharm Technol Res

October 2013

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Bharati Vidyapeeth Dental College and Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) is a naturally occurring analog of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) that has been used in research and clinical medicine for many years. GHB was used clinically as an anesthetic in the 1960s but was withdrawn due to side effects that included seizures and coma. GHB has been implicated in a number of crime types; most notably in drug-facilitated sexual assault.

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Background: Gingival recession resulting in root exposure is a common problem faced by clinicians. This clinical study compared the results obtained by treating gingival recession using enamel matrix derivative (Emdogain gel(®)) along with coronally positioned flap and coronally positioned flap alone.

Materials And Methods: Twenty patients with a total of 46 gingival recession defects, each patient with a minimum of two recession defects, were included in the study.

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