In the normal social and personal environment each person performs functions needed for its existence and development. These functions like eating, chewing, talking and more are a natural act. They are a vital necessity. In some cases, man also performs unnatural, unnecessary actions for its …

Due to practical constraints on the study of the daily events of bruxism, the clinical trials were mainly focused on the nature of nightly bruxism. This mandibular parafunctional behavior that occurs during the sleeping hours consists in rhythmically often strong tooth friction or prolonged squeeze …

Traditional flowable composites are known to adapt well to cavity preparations and are easy to apply. They spare clinical time as placing a flowable into a cavity preparation is a fairly easy task compared to having to pack a thicker composite, especially in areas such …

The laboratory variables under which an in vitro study is run can greatly influence the experimental results. For the in-vitro test to determine dental materials wear resistance numerous factors such as: force, contact time, wear mechanism implicated, sliding distance, surface rougness, antagonistic material and standardization, …

Introduction The course of HBV infection is influenced by many factors. Various guidelines have recommended liver biopsy in different groups of CHB patients. Aim The aim of our study was to evaluate the histomorphological findings in Bulgarian patients with chronic HBV infection. Materials and methods …

Amalgam has been used for the restoration of teeth for more than 200 years, and it is may be the most successful of the direct restorative materials. One of the principal disadvantages of amalgam is that it may have adverse biological effects, both locally and …

Lipoma of the parotid gland is a rare benign mesenchymal tumor. It is seldom considered in the differential diagnosis of the salivary glands pathology. Lipoma represents approximately 1% of the parotid gland tumors. We report a clinical case of a 54-year-old male patient presented with …

Prosthetic treatment with removable prosthesis is necessary in cases of genetic and hereditary diseases, multiple caries and severe traumas in order to restore effective chewing and speech function, to achieve acceptable appearance and to ensure unimpeded development of the oral structures and the whole organism. …

Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) is a rare benign, non-odontogenic osteolytic lesion of the jawbones. Commonly the clinical presentation consists of pain, significant bone expansion and facial asymmetry. We report a case of a 14-year-old asymptomatic patient, with aneurysmal bone cyst, identified on a routine X-ray, …

Footballers in their sports career receive a number of injuries, some of which are repetitive. The most burdened joints – the knee and the ankle and they are at the same time most traumatized. In turn, one of the most common pathologies of the talocrural …

Introduction: For the caries management of the carious process it is necessary a complex approach, which includes caries risk assessment, recommendations for healthy behavior and clinical professional care from the general dental practitioners. The cooperativity of the most of the little patients can not provide …

Aim: The aim of the present study is to clinically evaluate the role of xenogenic dermal grafts of animal origin for the purpose of covering the periosteum in frontal mandibular vestibuloplasty and thus allowing for early prosthetic loading.   Materials and methods: A total of …