Relationship between parental adverse childhood experiences and the prevalence of early childhood caries.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the behavioural health conditions associated with parents' retrospective adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) scores and their children's early childhood caries (ECC) in parent-child dyads.

Materials And Methods: Parents with children younger than 72 months were included in the study. A relational screening model was used.

Evaluation of possible associated factors for early childhood caries: are preterm birth and birth weight related?

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the oral and dental health of preschool children aged 12-71 months living in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, and to examine the effects of low birth weight (LBW) and preterm, early term and term birth on dental caries.

Methods: 475 participants were included in the study. Intraoral examinations were performed and evaluated for the presence of early childhood caries (ECC).

Is There a Relationship Between Maxillary Sinus's Inferior Pneumatisation and Sinonasal Variations? A Retrospective CBCT Study.

Objectives: This retrospective study aims to analyse alveolar and palatal process pneumatisation and their relationships with sinonasal variations using cone-beam computed tomography.

Material And Methods: The study included 500 patients aged 18 to 87 years, involving 1000 maxillary sinuses with cone-beam computed tomography scans. We examined the relationship between inferior maxillary pneumatisation and the following anatomic variations: Haller cell, concha bullosa, paradoxical concha, bifid concha, and septal deviation.

Variations and thicknesses of anterior belly of the digastric muscle: an ultrasonographic study.

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the anatomy and anatomical variations of the anterior belly of the digastric muscle.

Methods: Hundred and fifty one ultrasonographic images of the digastric muscle pairs were evaluated in Near East University Faculty of Dentistry Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology. Morphological variations were recorded using the classification of the digastric muscle into 12 types by Kim et al.

Sphenoid Sinus Volumes of Patients with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate.

Objective: There is only one study in the literature in which 3D evaluation of sphenoid sinus volume in patients with cleft lip and palate was used. This shows that this issue has not been adequately evaluated. The present study aimed to compare the volume of the sphenoid sinuses in patients with cleft lip and palate on cone-beam computed tomography images, and to compare them with healthy controls.

Association of accessory sphenoidal septum with protrusions of sphenoid sinus.

Purpose: Accessory sphenoidal septum (ASS) is a septal variation that exists in addition to the primary septum of the sphenoid sinus and can be found in or near anatomically essential structures. This study aimed to investigate the relationships between protrusions of vital structures around the sphenoid sinus and the ASSs.

Methods: This cross-sectional retrospective study is based on the analysis of CBCT scans of 314 patients in axial, coronal, and sagittal planes with 0.

Pharyngeal airway dimensions in skeletal class II: A cephalometric growth study.

Purpose: This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal dimensions of individuals with skeletal class II, division 1 and division 2 patterns during the pre-peak, peak, and post-peak growth periods for comparison with a skeletal class I control group.

Materials And Methods: Totally 124 lateral cephalograms (47 for skeletal class I; 45 for skeletal class II, division 1; and 32 for skeletal class II, division 2) in pre-peak, peak, and post-peak growth periods were selected from the department archives. Thirteen landmarks, 4 angular and 4 linear measurements, and 4 proportional calculations were obtained.

The effect of two artificial salivas on the adhesion of Candida albicans to heat-polymerized acrylic resin.

Purpose: Xerostomia can diminish the quality of life, leads to changes in normal chemical composition of saliva and oral microbiata, and increases the risk for opportunistic infections, such as Candida albicans. Various artificial salivas have been considered for patients with xerostomia. However, the knowledge on the antifungal and antiadhesive activity of artificial saliva substitutes is limited.

Exposure to mercury among dental health workers in Turkey: correlation with amalgam work and own fillings.

Purpose: To investigate the current status of exposure to mercury (Hg) among dental health workers in Turkey.

Methods: A total of 115 persons working in the same hospital were included in the study and were divided into three groups. Group 1 consisted of 67 dentists; group 2 consisted of 21 dental personnel who work with amalgam, and group 3 consisted of 27 control subjects who work in the same hospital but are non-dental personnel.

Outcomes of moderate sedation in paediatric dental patients.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of moderate sedation with nitrous oxide/oxygen (N(2) O/O(2)) alone or combined with different dosages and administration routes of midazolam in uncooperative paediatric dental patients using the Bispectral Index System (BIS).

Methods: This one-year clinical study examined first-visit moderate sedation performed in 240 healthy children aged 4-6 years. Subjects were randomly divided into four groups according to drug, route and dosage, as follows: Group 1 - 0.