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                  Dentistry- art and science of diagnosing, and treating conditions of teeth and related structures of oral and maxillofacial region, is one of two basic choices made by medical aspirants these days. Most of the times, BDS is second choice after MBBS as most of us think as if less costly means more easier and with almost half deposit than that of MBBS, You can still have 'Dr.' prefix, atleast I thought that way. Dentistry is also one of highest paid profession in Australia and US, this might tempt you into getting into dentistry.  But here are certain things you must know before getting into this noble profession of creating smiles.  1 .  It costs less, doesn’t mean it’s easy BDS is not easy as many of us think. You have to go through everything other medical students have to go through. All 9 systems in basic sciences, General Medicine, General Surgery, Anesthesiology everything is included in dentis...

Terminologies ULCER: Break in the continuity of the surface epithelium of the skin or the mucous membrane to involve the underlying connective tissue as a result of micro molecular cell death of the surface epithelium or its traumatic removal. VESICLE: Elevated blister containing clear fluid that is less than 1 cm in diameter. BULLA: Elevated blister containing clear fluid that is over 1 cm in diameter. PAPULES: These are the lesions raised above the skin or mucosal surface that are smaller than 1 cm in diameter. NODULES: These lesions are present within the dermis or mucosa. These lesions may also protrudes above the skin or mucosa forming a characteristic dome shaped structure. PUSTULES: These are blisters containing purulent material and appear yellow. MACULES: These are the lesions that are flush with adjacent mucosa and that are noticeable because of their difference in color from normal skin or mucosa Classification of Vesiculobullous lesion A. Based on...

Introduction Of several treatment modalities to treat severe skeletal malposition (malocclusion), orthodontic camouflage and orthognathic surgery are most commonly used modalities. Before we actually plan for orthognathic surgery in correcting skeletal mal relation, dental malocclusion is treated first, referred to as pre-surgical orthodontics . Compensation is a natural phenomena of developmental adjustment towards working in balance and maintaining homeostasis. This has been defined as," process or mechanism by which development of dental and alveolar arches are controlled so as to secure occlusion of teeth and adaptation to basal parts of the jaw." - Bjork Examples: In cases of skeletal class II, to compensate for the skeletal discrepancies the upper incisors are retroclined and lower incisors are proclined.  In cases of skeletal class III, lower incisors are retroclined and upper incisors are proclined.  In skeletal open bite cases, posteriors dentoalveolar seg...

Introduction Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. Speech is vocalised form of human communication describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words. According to Boucher, speech is classified as; vowels consonants Consonant sounds are most important from the dental point of view. They may be classified according to the anatomic parts involved in their formation: (1) Bilabial sounds; formed by lips, (2) Labiodental sounds; formed by lips and teeth, (3) Linguodental sounds; formed by tongue and teeth, (4) Linguoalveolar sounds; formed by the tip of the andanterior most part of palate (5) Linguopalatal and Linguovelar sounds,truly palatal sounds A. Bilabial Sounds B,p and m are representatives of the bilabial group of sounds. Formed by the stream of air coming from the lungs which meets with no resistance alo...

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Introduction: ·        Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis is a microbial disease of the gingiva in a patient with an impaired host response characterized by severe necrosis of the free gingival margin, the crest of the gingiva and interdental papilla. ·        Also called a ‘ Trench Mouth ’, ‘ Vincent’s disease’ , ‘ Vincent’s angina’, ‘Phagedenic gingivitis’. Etiology: ·         Mixed bacterial infection that includes anaerobes such as Prevotella intermedia and Fusobacterium as well as spirochetes, such as Treponema . Risk factors: A.     Local Factors: i. Contributing to accumulation of bacteria o    Pre-existing gingivitis o    Poor oral hygiene o    Overhanging restorations o    Malpositioned   teeth o    Calculus o    Food impaction ii. Contributing to local ischemia o  ...

Introduction: Kole in 1959 published his series on subapical osteotomy for the correction of anterior open bite deformity.  The conventional Kole osteotomy  an alter the symmetric bone architecture of the chin and jeopardize the blood supply of the sandwich segments. Thus, Modified Kole procedure  close anterior open bite as well as correct anterior and vertical macrogenia without sacrificing the lower most symphyseal segment, in comparison with conventional Kole's osteotomy. This procedure can be used for the correction of localized deformities such as mild to severe open bites and similar major asymmetric segmental deformities. Surgical Technique: The subapical osteotomy cuts were made between the first and second premolar without extractions. The subapical osteotomy segment is repositioned superiorly as in standard Kole's technique to correct the open bite. A low level genioplasty is performed to remove a wedge shaped bicortical bone.  This bone w...