Aims: To assess level of parental awareness and attitude about dental health habits of their children, presence of permanent first molars (PFMs) and its association with caries experience. Methods and materials: A cross ...

Background: In most dental schools, dental anatomy is taught in both theoretical and practical sessions during the first years of the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS). This comprehensive course equips students with essential ...

Aims: To investigate any association between the experience of dental caries and its potential risk factors in Libyan schoolchildren and to investigate any gender differences for these factors. Methods: A cross-sectional ...

This study was done to evaluate different finish line defects due to fault preparation, In addition to that to determination of their locations (upper, lower, anterior, posterior). Methods: 175 working casts with different ...

The correlation between periodontitis and chronic renal disease (CRD) is still being debated. Periodontitis increases the systemic inflammatory burden, which worsens CRD, and the CRD can affect the progression of periodontal ...

Objectives: The prevalence of dental anomalies in different populations as demonstrated in several studies. So far, little is known about developmental anomalies in Libyan population. This research was aimed to: investigate ...

Background: Mandibular third molars are the most frequently encountered impacted teeth in dental surgery cases. Impactions could be caused by differences in crown size, later development of roots, reduced skeletal growth ...

Background: Extra teeth are usually seen in any area of mandible and maxilla. The distomolar is an extra tooth that occurs in both jaws distal to the third molar, where various studies pointed to assess the occur-rence of ...

Background: Tooth loss can be due to many causes, which results in many bad consequences on the dentition function and esthetics. Aims: This study was aimed to assess reasons and patterns of tooth extraction among Libyan ...