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Oral medicine needs a process for continual development of new therapeutic strategies to manage the growing population with poor oral health. The need arises from current therapeutic approaches that i...

We thank Dr. Sujir for his kind comments regarding our most recent article published in Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics. We also thank him for his observat...

We read with great interest the article titled “Mandible reconstruction assisted by preoperative virtual surgical simulation” by Zheng et al. in OOOO. The authors are to be congratulated on adding ima...

At the Oral Diagnosis Clinic at the Dentistry School of Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais, a 29-year-old white woman was admitted with a slow-growing, painless oral lesion that had been present for...

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the dynamic changes of circulating osteocalcin+ (OCN+) cells and insulinlike growth factor-I (IGF-I) in peripheral blood during early primary re...

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the primary stability of different orthodontic mini-implants inserted into different maxillary and mandibular regions of swine. Material and method...

Mucoceles of the submandibular gland are extremely rare pathologic occurrences that present an investigative and management dilemma owing to their clinical indistinguishability from plunging ranulas. ...

Telemedicine is defined as the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve delivery of care. This improvement in delivery of care is evident ...

The authors present an unusual case of an acute swelling of the lower lip and septicemia in a 35-year-old, recent immigrant male arriving from India. The patient presented in our emergency department ...

The available scientific literature on masticatory myospasm–induced oromandibular dystonia is limited. The objective of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics of lateral pterygoid my...

Objective: A previous sham-controlled multinational study demonstrated the short-term efficacy and safety for xerostomia treatment of an intraoral device that delivers electrostimulation to the lingua...

Pure trigeminal motor neuropathy is a very unusual disease that is characterized by trigeminal motor paralysis without trigeminal sensory disturbances and without the involvement of the other cranial ...

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on the Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR-2) pathway in cultured cells. Study Design: Human chondrocytes, peri...

Objective: Aberrant keratinization is common in oral lichen planus (OLP) on buccal mucosa. Because elastin is crucial for maintaining the nonkeratinized phenotype of oral mucosa, we examined whether i...

Juvenile ossifying fibroma (JOF) is a rare fibro-osseous neoplasm, defined as a variant of the ossifying fibroma that arises within the craniofacial bones. Two subgroups, juvenile psammomatoid ossifyi...

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical findings of 6 cases with synovial or ganglion cysts occurring in the temporomandibular joint (T...

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare cervical vertebrae maturity assessed with the use of cone-beam computerized tomography (CBCT) with the hand-wrist maturation method and cervical vertebra...

Odontogenic fibroma (OF) is a rare nonepithelial benign tumor arising from the odontogenic mesenchymal tissue in the jawbone. OFs are topographically categorized into 2 types, the central type and per...