April 2024
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The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
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April 2024
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The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
June 2023
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Journal of Dentistry
Purpose: The objective of this study was to compare patient reported outcomes (PROs) of peri-implant soft tissue inflammation and aesthetics around single-tooth implants in the anterior maxillary region with three different implant-abutment interface designs. Methods: Participants were randomized to one of three different types of implant-abutment interface designs [Conical (CI), flat-to-flat (FI), and Platform Switched (PS)]. Implants and provisional crowns with prefabricated titanium abutments were placed 5 months following extraction and/or ridge augmentation. Permanent ceramic crowns with zirconia abutments were placed after 12 weeks. To assess PROs, appearance and inflammation questionnaires were completed from provisional crown placement to the 3-year follow-up. Results: Tooth appearance at the 3-year follow-up revealed a difference amongst CI, FI and PS implants (p=0.049; Kruskal-Wallis test). PS was rated better than FI (p=0.047) at 1 year for appearance of soft-tissue and satisfaction with colour. There were no differences for self-consciousness, smile and pain/discomfort while eating/hard food items. Conclusions: Although participants tended to rate the health of mucosa around PS implants as slighty better than the other two implant systems, the differences were minimal and inconsisitent. Thus, patient satisfaction in terms self-perceived gingival health and esthetics was high for all 3 systems tested, suggesting that patients are unable to detect mucosal inflammation. Clinical significance: Patients find it difficult to perceive mucosal inflammation; hence, it is recommended that patients attend implant follow-up visits, even if they do not perceive inflammation. The study suggests that there is a relationship between the PROs and the clinical outcomes of tested implants.
January 2023
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Journal of Social Work
This article describes the implementation and outcomes of a social work program in a university pediatric dental clinic serving low-income families. The goal was to decrease barriers to dental care access, decrease appointment failure, and improve interprofessional practice (IPP). Funding was obtained through a foundation to hire a social worker and two interns, and cover program costs. A survey identified barriers families faced to obtain and complete pediatric dental care. Residents, dental students, and faculty make referrals to the social workers who intervene to help families overcome challenges for their children's care. Findings The program started in January 2019 and outcomes are reported through June 2021. The largest barriers families identified were lack of a pediatric dentist near home accepting public insurance (91%), the dentist who saw their child only did exams and cleanings but not fillings (84%), and need for specialized dental care (77%). Five hundred and eleven families were referred to the social workers, most commonly for resources, information or other referrals (30.5%), dental insurance lapse (14.9%), caregiver guidance on oral health (10.6%), mental health concerns (10.4%), and poor treatment compliance (9.6%). Social workers provided 424 interventions, mostly about information regarding community resources (26.8%), transportation issues (15.9%), and telephone consults (14.2%). Appointment failure rates decreased from 17% to 13.5%, while the cancelation rate decreased from 19.2% to 14.3% from January 2019 to June 2021, respectively. Applications Social workers helped decrease barriers to pediatric dental care, improve attendance to dental appointments, and enhance IPP for pediatric dental residents, students, and faculty.
November 2021
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This supplemental data file shows the distances traveled and residence times (minimum/maximum/average) for droplets as a function of diameter for each chair considered in the dental clinic.
November 2021
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of radiographically identifiable developmental dental anomalies (DDA) in a university-based pediatric dental clinic and to assess for associations between DDA and health status. Methods: Retrospective data, obtained from the electronic dental records of a three-year pediatric patient cohort, were evaluated by two trained and calibrated examiners. Strict inclusion/ exclusion criteria were applied. A validated image quality grading system was used for radiograph assessment, and the physical status classification of the American Academy of Anesthesiology was utilized. A chi-square test and bivariate logistic regression were used for statistical analysis. The inter- and intraexaminer reliability was assessed using Cohen's Kappa. Results: A total of 1,478 subjects (69 percent medically healthy) were enrolled. DDA were identified in 25 percent of the subjects, with hyperdontia, hypodontia, and microdontia being more common. A statistically significant association was found between the presence of DDA and health status (P<0.001) and between DDA and asthma (P=0.035). Patients with systemic disturbances showed 2.12 times greater odds of having DDA (P<0.001, 95 percent confidence interval equals 1.7-2.7). Conclusions: The prevalence of developmental dental anomalies was high, with one in four patients affected. DDA in number were the most common. Patients with systemic disturbances had greater odds of having DDA.
October 2021
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Experiments in Fluids
Throughout 2020 and beyond, the entire world has observed a continuous increase in the infectious spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) otherwise known as COVID-19. The high transmission of this airborne virus has raised countless concerns regarding safety measures employed in the working conditions for medical professionals. Specifically, those who perform treatment procedures on patients which intrinsically create mists of fine airborne droplets, i.e., perfect vectors for this and other viruses to spread. The present study focuses on understanding the splatter produced due to a common dentistry technique to remove plaque buildup on teeth. This technique uses a high-speed dentistry instrument, e.g., a Cavitron ultrasonic scaler, to scrape along the surface of a patient’s teeth. This detailed understanding of the velocity and the trajectory of the droplets generated by the splatter will aid in the development of hygiene mechanisms to guarantee the safety of those performing these procedures and people in clinics or hospitals. Optical flow tracking velocimetry (OFTV) method was employed to obtain droplet velocity and trajectory in a two-dimensional plane. Multiple data collection planes were taken in different orientations around a model of adult mandibular teeth. This technique provided pseudo-three-dimensional velocity information for the droplets within the splatter developed from this high-speed dental instrument. These results indicated that within the three-dimensional splatter produced there were high velocities (1–2 m/s) observed directly below the intersection point between the front teeth and the scaler. The splatter formed a cone-shape structure that propagated 10–15 mm away from the location of the scaler tip. From the droplet trajectories, it was observed that high velocity isolated droplets propagate away from the bulk of the splatter. It is these droplets which are concerning for health safety to those performing the medical procedures. Using a shadowgraphy technique, we further characterize the individual droplets’ size and their individual velocity. We then compare these results to previously published distributions. The obtained data can be used as a first step to further examine flow and transport of droplets in clinics/dental offices. Graphical abstract
May 2021
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The Journal of the American Dental Association
Background The dental office potentially possesses all transmission risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 virus. Anticipating the future widespread use of COVID-19 testing in the dental offices, this article is a proactive effort to provide dental health care providers with current and necessary information surrounding the topic. Methods All relevant and recent guidelines from CDC and FDA, as well as online resources and review articles were consulted. Results Routine COVID-19 screening and triage protocols are unable to detect all infected individuals. With the advancements in diagnostic tools/techniques, COVID-19 testing at home or in the dental office may provide dentists with abilities to evaluate the disease status of their patients. At home or point-of-care tests, providing results within minutes of being administered, would allow for appropriate measures and rapid decisions about dental patients' care process. In this review, we familiarize the reader with current available laboratory and point-of-care COVID-19 screening methods, and, identify and elaborate the options available for use by dentists as well as the regulatory requirements of test administration. Conclusion Dentists need to be familiar with COVID-19 point-of-care testing options. While contributing to public health, such tests may deliver rapid, accurate and actionable results to clinical and infection control teams to enhance the safe patient flow in dental practices.
March 2021
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COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) virus, has been rapidly spreading worldwide since December 2019, causing a public health crisis. Recent studies showed SARS-CoV-2's ability to infect humans via airborne routes. These motivated the study of aerosol and airborne droplet transmission in a variety of settings. This study performs a large-scale numerical simulation of a real-world dentistry clinic that contains aerosol-generating procedures. The simulation tracks the dispersion of evaporating droplets emitted during ultrasonic dental scaling procedures. The simulation considers 25 patient treatment cubicles in an open plan dentistry clinic. The droplets are modeled as having a volatile (evaporating) and nonvolatile fraction composed of virions, saliva, and impurities from the irrigant water supply. The simulated clinic's boundary and flow conditions are validated against experimental measurements of the real clinic. The results evaluate the behavior of large droplets and aerosols. We investigate droplet residence time and travel distance for different droplet diameters, surface contamination due to droplet settling and deposition, airborne aerosol mass concentration, and the quantity of droplets that escape through ventilation. The simulation results raise concerns due to the aerosols' long residence times (averaging up to 7.31 min) and travel distances (averaging up to 24.45 m) that exceed social distancing guidelines. Finally, the results show that contamination extends beyond the immediate patient treatment areas, requiring additional surface disinfection in the clinic. The results presented in this research may be used to establish safer dental clinic operating procedures, especially if paired with future supplementary material concerning the aerosol viral load generated by ultrasonic scaling and the viral load thresholds required to infect humans.
March 2021
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Knowledge about the detection potential and detection rates of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in various body fluids and sites is important for dentists since they, directly or indirectly, deal with many of these fluids/sites in their daily practices. In this study, we attempt to review the latest evidence and meta-analysis studies regarding the detection rate of SARS-CoV-2 in different body specimens and sites as well as the characteristics of these sample. The presence/detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral biomolecules (nucleic acid, antigens, antibody) in different clinical specimens depends greatly on the specimen type and timing of collection. These specimens/sites include nasopharynx, oropharynx, nose, saliva, sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage, stool, urine, ocular fluid, serum, plasma and whole blood. The relative detection rate of SARS-CoV-2 viral biomolecules in each of these specimens/sites is reviewed in detail within the text. The infectious potential of these specimens depends mainly on the time of specimen collection and the presence of live replicating viral particles.
January 2021
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The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
Purpose: This study sought to define the tissue responses at different implant-abutment interfaces by studying bone and peri-implant mucosal changes using a 5-year prospective randomized clinical trial design study. The conus interface was compared with the flat-to-flat interface and platform-switched implant-abutment systems. Materials and methods: One hundred forty-one subjects were recruited and randomized to the three treatment groups according to defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Following implant placement and immediate provisionalization in healed alveolar ridges, clinical, photographic, and radiographic parameters were measured at 6 months and annually for 5 years. The calculated changes in marginal bone levels, peri-implant mucosal zenith location, papillae lengths, and peri-implant Plaque Index and bleeding on probing were statistically compared. Results: Forty-eight conus interface implants, 49 flat-to-flat interface implants, and 44 platform-switched implants were placed in 141 subjects. Six platform-switched interface and eight flatto- flat interface implants failed, most of them within 3 months. After 5 years, 33 conical interface, 28 flat-to-flat interface, and 27 platform-switched interface implants remained for evaluation. Calculation of marginal bone level change showed a mean marginal bone loss of -0.16 ± 0.45 (-1.55 to 0.65), -0.92 ± 0.70 (-2.90 to 0.20), and -0.81 ± 1.06 (-3.35 to 1.35) mm for conical interface, flat-to-flat interface, and platform-switched interface implants, respectively (P < .0005). The peri-implant mucosal zenith changes were minimal for all three interface designs (0.10 mm and +0.08 mm, P > .60). Only 16% to 19% of the surfaces had presence of bleeding on probing, with no significant differences (P > .81) between groups. Interproximal tissue changes were positive and similar among the implant interface designs. Conclusion: Over 5 years, the immediate provisionalization protocol resulted in stable peri-implant mucosal responses for all three interfaces. Compared with the flat-to-flat and platform-switched interfaces, the conical interface implants demonstrated significantly less early marginal bone loss. The relationship of marginal bone responses and mucosal responses requires further experimental consideration.
... 15 Additionally, a recent study described the implementation and outcomes of a social work program in a pediatric dental clinic serving low-income families with the goal of decreasing barriers to accessing dental care, decreasing appointment failure, and improving interprofessional practice. 27 The results of this study demonstrated that the social workers in the program helped decrease barriers to pediatric dental care, improved attendance for dental appointments, and enhanced interprofessional practice for pediatric dental residents, social work students, and faculty. 27 More largescale studies similar to those discussed above are needed to help decrease barriers to accessing care and addressing the unmet social needs that affect access to care at the population level. ...
January 2023
Journal of Social Work
... Зубощелепні аномалії (ЗЩА) та деформації є актуальною проблемою сьогодення. За даними ВООЗ їхня частота сягає 92 % [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Щороку фахівці більшості країн світу спостерігають зростання поширеності зубощелепних аномалій у дітей і підлітків та пов'язують це з процесами урбанізації, погіршенням екологічної ситуації [2]. ...
November 2021
... The latest research utilized state-of-the-art experimental fluid mechanics tools to detect the number and the transmission speed of aerosol droplets through the advanced high-speed imaging techniques and optical flow tracking velocimetry. The initial velocity of these droplets can be quite significant, typically ranging between 1 m/s and 2.6 m/s [14,26,27]. ...
October 2021
Experiments in Fluids
... In addition to contributing to public health, such tests may deliver rapid, accurate, and actionable results to clinical and infection control teams to enhance the safe patient flow in dental practice. 13 The fear of contracting the COVID-19 disease at the dental office may cause patients' reluctance to seek dental care, and in some cases may lead to delay presentation. A study that evaluated perceived vulnerability to coronavirus infection and the impact on dental practice reported high levels of vulnerability regarding contracting COVID-19 disease, and thus avoiding dental care among the groups of subjects considered. ...
May 2021
The Journal of the American Dental Association
... As well as general dentistry, implant surgery involves the use of instruments such as implant motors and ultrasonic bone cutting devices, there is a risk of exposure to contaminated aerosol containing blood and saliva. Aerosol and splatter diffusion has been simulated using numerical models and computational fluid dynamic model approaches [9][10][11]. Furthermore, previous studies have reported case of transmission between patients infected with COVID-19 and dental healthcare workers during dental treatment [12]. ...
March 2021
... 10 Detection rate of SARS-COV-2 in alternative sites and specimens pertaining to dental practice has been extensively reviewed. 11 To control the spread of the disease, many countries, including Nigeria imposed measures such as border screening, social distancing and restriction of all movement, both intra and inter-state movement of people and vehicles, exempting only vehicles carrying food items, fuel, medical supplies and other essential services. Due to the high infective nature of the disease, in many places, dentists were restricted to only handling urgencies and emergencies. ...
March 2021
... external hexagon [30,39,39,56,57,64,78,86,102,120,120,122,127,132,140], (4) internal hexagon [20,39,58,[63][64][65]67,68,78,122,130,133], (5) internal octagonal butt-joint [108], (6) internal polygonal buttjoint [148], and (7) internal trilobate joint [72] (Table 2). A total of 1 case-control, 5 cohort prospective studies, 4 cross-sectional studies, 58 non-randomized clinical trials (CTs), 28 randomized clinical trials, and 44 retrospective studies were included in the analysis (Table 2). ...
January 2021
The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
... Dental implant success criteria have been described by Albrektsson et al. as lack of mobility of the implant, no radiographic evidence of peri-implant radiolucency, less than 0.2 mm bone alveolar bone 1-year post implant placement, and absence of persistent pain or infection (62). Many newer published dental implant success criteria do not include the annual bone loss as a criterion as newer implant designs have largely reduced or eliminated successive bone loss after loading (63,64). ...
January 2019
The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
... Several indicators have been developed to objectively evaluate the post operative esthetic outcome such as the Pink Esthetic Score which is a widely used index that also showed good reproducibility in other studies. 24,[51][52][53] As it has been suggested that a PES >7 was clinically acceptable, in the present study PES revealed very favorable esthetic outcome in both groups, as indicated by a mean PES of greater than 9. This is consistent with other studies reporting high esthetic outcomes after soft tissue augmentation. ...
September 2018
The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
... Short implants work exceptionally well for replacing a single tooth, especially in places where bone height is restricted. Because of their reduced size, they can be placed without requiring further augmentation, which speeds up the healing process (221)(222)(223)(224)(225)(226)(227)(228)(229)(230)(231)(232)(233)(234)(235)(236). Short implants may effectively anchor prosthetic restorations in wholly or partially edentulous patients. ...
July 2018
Clinical Oral Implants Research