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Oral health status and dental care for hospitalized patients with facial fractures
Andrade, Ana Karisse de Carvalho; Mendonça, Maria Patrícia Rogério de; Pinto, Clarice Maia Soares de Alcântara; Mello, Manoel de Jesus RodriguesObjective: to analyze the oral health profile of inpatients victims of oral and maxillofacial trauma at the Institute Dr. José Frota Hospital, Ceará, Brazil. Methodology: a study carried out in 2020 started with an examination of the oral cavity at the bedside, application of the DMFT and The Bedside Oral Exam indexes, together with the survey of dental needs and application of the Oral Health Impact Profile Sc...
Aneurysmal bone cyst of the zygomatic Arch causing limited mouth opening
Benevides, Breno Souza; Menezes Junior, José Maria Sampaio; Holanda, Marcelo Esmeraldo; Sousa, Fabrício Bitu; Lopes, Mariana Canuto Melo de SousaThe Aneurysmal Bone Cyst (ABC) is an expansive osteolytic, radiolucent, multilocular, eccentric lesion of unknown origin consisting of spaces filled with blood in any segment of the skeleton, being most frequently encountered in the diaphysis of the long bones or the spinal cord. It may occur as distinct clinico-pathological entity or as pathophysiological alteration of a preexisting lesion, like giant-cells le...
Are General anesthetics neurotoxic?
Batista, Hermes Melo Teixeira; Silveira, Gylmara Bezerra de Menezes; Sampaio, Leonardo Araújo; Bezerra, Italla Maria PinheiroIntroduction: General anaesthesia has been used worldwide since its first public demonstration with ether in 1846. Until a little more than a decade ago, it was believed that the anaesthetic state was limited to the period of exposure. Studies in rats, pigs, and rhesus monkeys have shown that almost all general anaesthetics accelerate the apoptotic process in neurones, oligodendrocytes, and glial cells. Objecti...
Avaliação da alteração do perfil de colágeno de dentes extraídos de pacientes s...
Benevides, Breno SouzaCompromised dental health by incidence of radiation is taken as a result of the reduction in salivary flow as well as possible direct radiogenic damage to tooth structure. The exact nature of the latter remains to be elucidated. The aim of this paper is to investigate the anatomical predominance of collagen type I and type III in the dentin and periodontal ligament and the amount of these collagens in the perio...