ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT WITH PASSIVE ERUPTION AND MESIALIZATION OF SEMI-IMPACTED MANDIBULAR THIRD MOLAR IN AN ADULT WITH MULTIPLE DENTAL LOSSES

Orthodontic treatment with passive eruption and mesialization of semi-impacted mandibular third molar in an adult with multiple dental losses

ABSTRACT Objective: This article describes the orthodontic treatment performed on an adult patient with multiple dental losses.Case report: A female patient, 20 years and 4 months old, presented with the following conditions: absence of teeth #26, #35, #36 groovy mama ring and #46; semi-impacted tooth #48; inclined molars adjacent to an edentulous

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Vaccines against gastroenteritis, current progress and challenges

Enteric viral and bacterial infections continue to be a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in young children in low-income and middle-income countries, the elderly, and immunocompromised individuals.Vaccines are considered an effective and practical preventive approach against the predominantly fecal-to-oral transmitted gastroenteritis partic

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2012 Dahlberg Award Winner: Dental morphological variation among six Pre-Hispanic South American populations with implications for the peopling of the New World

The analysis of the human dentition pro-vides important information on the origins and dispersals of the first American inhabitants.However, most of this work has focused on North America, whereas less research has been devoted to variation within Central and South telemarkskongen flue America.This study examines the permanent dentitions of 340 ind

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