Journal and Conferences of Dentistry

Orthognathic surgery (OS) is a surgical intervention that alters relationships of the jaws and dental arches. The treatment involves a combination of orthodontics and maxillofacial surgery.  Orthognathic Surgery It is used to correct dentofacial deformities that cannot be treated with acceptable results by conventional orthodontics. The first description of a surgical intervention to correct a malocclusion was by Hullihen in 1849. The most frequently used surgical procedures for correcting the relationship of the jaws are Le Fort I osteotomy and sagittal ramus split osteotomy. Also often used are vertical ramus osteotomy, inverted L osteotomy, and variations and combinations of the above. Read More>>>>>>

In 1989, “The First National Oral Health Survey” of the population in Vietnam was performed and it reported poor oral hygiene status and a moderate level of caries among a sample of 2.762 individuals aged 12-15 years. In 1999, “The National Oral Health Survey of Vietnam” (NOHSV1999) was conducted to characterize the oral health of the Vietnamese Child population and this report enabled the exploration of trends in oral health in Vietnam.  Dental caries was found to be highly prevalent and severe, but there was also considerable variation in caries prevalence between different geographic areas. There was an increase in caries prevalence in 1999 compared with the study performed ten years earlier.  Read More>>>>>>

Preterm birth is the greatest contributor to infant death and longterm neurological morbidity. Despite all the medical efforts to reduce the preterm birth, the rate is still high relatively high; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, preterm birth affected about 1 of every 10infants born in the United States in 2014. Prevention and treating the underlying causes of preterm labor would be more successful than treating existing preterm labor.  Maternal infections are responsible for between 30%-50% of preterm births. Remote subclinical infections have also been considered as causes of preterm labor. Periodontal disease being an inflammatory disease triggered by microbial biofilm has been identified as a risk factor for preterm birth. The purpose of this study is to determine if a relationship exists between periodontal disease and preterm birth. Read more...............

Patients have benefitted greatly from the advances in cosmetic dentistry and implant surgery. So what’s next? In recent years there has been a growing interest in Sleep Dentistry and the role that dentists can have in improving the airway. The spiralling increase in sleep disorders & associated problems has lead to a questioning of how these could be prevented and how best to treat established conditions. Nasal breathing has long been accepted as being far  more efficient than mouth breathing.  Functional orthodontists have, for many years, been aware of the useful role that they can play but this has not been accepted in more traditional circles. At the present time there is no robust data, however clinical experience does support changes in the airway. The cause of malocclusion is, as yet, unknown and is almostcertainly multi-factoria l. Yet there are some factors which are common to most cases of crowding. These are a small maxilla and a retrognathic mandible....

Several hospitalized patients with neurological disorders depend on nursing staff for their daily health care. Due to several functional limitations of the limbs, oral motor impairments, neglect, apraxia, and hemianopia, oral hygiene self-care is difficult to perform and therefore adequate oral health is difficult to maintain. Next to that, oral dysfunction related to oral motorfunction , mastication, swallowing and saliva control may be affected and does not always recover completely during rehabilitation. Due to both physical and oral dysfunction, adequate oral health may be threatened, because the affected functions hinder this population when performing daily oral hygiene self-care. Consequently, the responsibility for completing oral care in neurological patients often falls to the nursing staff. Oral health has not been given priority in nursing practice, because there are competing priorities regarding the care nurses provide, but it should become a task with higher priori...