Statement of Problem: Salivary glands secrete a liquid known as saliva which plays an important role in oral homeostasis. Quantitative and qualitative variation in salivary secretion can cause dental caries and periodontal ...

Statement of problem: Mouth-rinses may soften composite restorations even when the composite is light cured or heat treated. The use of certain mouth-rinses may have less adverse effect on composite restorations.Purpose: ...

Statement of problem: At the final stage of fixed orthodontic treatment, the debonding process has high potential in causing enamel damages especially enamel cracks. Thus, the investigation on the effective factors involves ...

Statement of problem: Expansion screws such as Hyrax and Hass have high load-activation rate and their force system is somehow far from ideal for moving teeth. Hence, activation of such screws produces heavy forces that ...

Statement of problem: One of the anatomic structures in mental interforaminal area is mandibular incisive canal (MIC). Due to the lack of sufficient emphasis in anatomic texts and limited ability of conventional radiographies ...

Statement of Problem: Systemic consequences of major thalassemia (MT), can induce some changes in saliva chemistry, and increase dental caries, as well as gingivitis in patients.Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare ...