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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,155 Views
11 Pages

20 February 2024

Disabled persons’ chairside dentistry is challenging. We aimed for a retrospective breakdown of dental services delivered to disabled patients by dental students and to discuss feasibility of a chairside approach. Consecutive patients, who rece...

(This article belongs to the Collection Dentistry, Oral Health and Maxillofacial Surgery)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,371 Views
8 Pages

Aesthetic and Functional Rehabilitation of Patients with Genetic Microdontia: A Multidisciplinary Approach

  • Cindy Batisse,
  • Pierre-Yves Cousson,
  • Emmanuel Nicolas and
  • Marion Bessadet

This case report presents the treatment of a 33-year-old patient with a genetic, generalized microdontia of permanent teeth. Microdontia is a developmental dental anomaly of the teeth characterized by a decrease in their size. In the literature, trea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Healthcare and Special Needs Patients)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,239 Views
15 Pages

Does the Modality of Dental Treatment Affect the Treatment Prognosis and the Necessity of Re-Treatments?

  • İrem Bağ,
  • Seçil Çalışkan,
  • Alaz Oya Erenel,
  • Kübra Nur Sevimli and
  • Merve Candan

19 October 2023

Background: The utilization of evidence-based approaches is crucial to achieving long-term positive outcomes for treatment performed chairside or under general anesthesia. The study aimed to evaluate if treatment modality (at the chairside or under g...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Dentistry & Oral Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,051 Views
16 Pages

Clinical Pathways in Managing High-Caries Children with Adverse Dental Histories

  • Flora Hashemi,
  • Ahmad Al Masri,
  • Christian H. Splieth and
  • Julian Schmoeckel

26 November 2025

Background and Objectives: Dental treatments of children with previous negative dental experiences are challenging and frequently require sedation or general anesthesia. Therefore, this study aimed to identify treatment pathways and factors associate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Findings and Clinical Advances in Pediatric Dentistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
12,674 Views
38 Pages

Exploring the Properties and Indications of Chairside CAD/CAM Materials in Restorative Dentistry

  • Codruţa-Eliza Ille,
  • Anca Jivănescu,
  • Daniel Pop,
  • Eniko Tunde Stoica,
  • Razvan Flueras,
  • Ioana-Cristina Talpoş-Niculescu,
  • Raluca Mioara Cosoroabă,
  • Ramona-Amina Popovici and
  • Iustin Olariu

The present review provides an up-to-date overview of chairside CAD/CAM materials used in restorative dentistry, focusing on their classification, properties, and clinical applications. If CAD/CAM technology was only an aspiration in the past, a high...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Dental Adhesives and Restorative Composites)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,483 Views
14 Pages

Dental Care for a Child with Congenital Hydrocephalus: A Case Report with 12-Month Follow-Up

  • Yasser Alsayed Tolibah,
  • Chaza Kouchaji,
  • Thuraya Lazkani,
  • Mohammad Tamer Abbara,
  • Saffana Jbara and
  • Ziad D. Baghdadi

Hydrocephalus affects the central nervous system as a result of progressive ventricular dilatation from the accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain’s lateral ventricles. This paper reports on the oral characteristics of a child with co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Pediatric Dental Care in Relation to Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,455 Views
10 Pages

16 June 2021

This double-blind randomized controlled trial with a crossover design analyzed the technical and clinical performance of three-unit monolithic ZrO2 implant-fixed dental prostheses (iFDPs), prepared using two complete digital workflows (Test-1, Test-2...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Workflows and Material Sciences in Dental Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,623 Views
13 Pages

Influence of the Milling Strategy on the Marginal Fit of Chairside-Fabricated Lithium Disilicate Crowns

  • Lara Berger,
  • Felix Förtsch,
  • Ralf Robert Kretschmer,
  • Oleksandr Sednyev,
  • José Ignacio Zorzin,
  • Manfred Wichmann and
  • Ragai Edward Matta

9 May 2025

Utilizing dental CAD/CAM systems, chairside treatments allow patients to be treated within one day without the need for an intermediate dental laboratory. With this procedure, it is also essential to ensure a sufficient marginal fit of the restoratio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Dental Materials: From Design to Application, Second Edition)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,537 Views
15 Pages

8 November 2022

Dental implants have been placed millions of times worldwide, and the surgical procedure and implant design have steadily improved. The basic prosthetic connection, which makes use of an abutment, has changed little over the past decades. These days,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Oral Surgery and Implant Dentistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,078 Views
13 Pages

Enhanced Osteoblast Adhesion and Proliferation on Vacuum Plasma-Treated Implant Surface

  • Hyun Jeong Jeon,
  • Ara Jung,
  • Hee Jin Kim,
  • Jeong San Seo,
  • Jun Young Kim,
  • Moon Seop Yum,
  • Bomi Gweon and
  • Youbong Lim

30 September 2022

In this study, we propose a vacuum plasma device for surface treatment of dental implants. This plasma device was designed to allow direct installation of sealed implant packaging containing the dental implant. In this manner, the dental implant coul...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,250 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2025

Pulpitis is the inflammatory response of the dental pulp to microbial challenge and can range from mild to severe in nature, with severe pulpitis traditionally resulting in pulp removal and root canal treatment (RCT). In the pursuit of more conservat...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,562 Views
7 Pages

27 September 2024

Background and Objectives: Behavior management as a set of clinical techniques to induce desirable clinical treatment and subsequent compliance behaviors in children and families varies internationally based on professional training, access to care,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oral Health Status of Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,259 Views
12 Pages

Factory Crystallized Silicates for Monolithic Metal-Free Restorations: A Flexural Strength and Translucency Comparison Test

  • Alessandro Vichi,
  • Zejiao Zhao,
  • Gaetano Paolone,
  • Nicola Scotti,
  • Mahdi Mutahar,
  • Cecilia Goracci and
  • Chris Louca

6 November 2022

Flexural strength (FS) and translucency (Contrast Ratio-CR) of three different factory crystallized silica-based glass ceramics, Celtra Duo (CD), N!ce (NI) and Li-Si Block, a lithium disilicate, IPS e.max CAD (LD), and a leucite-reinforced feldspathi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Materials for Prosthodontics, Restorative Dentistry and Digital Dentistry)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,956 Views
12 Pages

aMMP-8 Point-of-Care/Chairside Oral Fluid Technology as a Rapid, Non-Invasive Tool for Periodontitis and Peri-Implantitis Screening in a Medical Care Setting

  • Hanna Lähteenmäki,
  • Kehinde A. Umeizudike,
  • Anna Maria Heikkinen,
  • Ismo T. Räisänen,
  • Nilminie Rathnayake,
  • Gunnar Johannsen,
  • Taina Tervahartiala,
  • Solomon O. Nwhator and
  • Timo Sorsa

This communication article addresses currently available rapid non-invasive methods to screen and detect periodontitis and dental peri-implantitis. In this regard, oral fluid biomarkers have been researched extensively but self-reported oral health (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dental Peri-Implant Point-of-Care Tests)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,051 Views
17 Pages

30 September 2025

(1) Introduction: The clinical success of dental implants depends on rapid osseointegration, which can be impaired by hydrocarbon contamination and biological aging of titanium surfaces. Chairside plasma surface treatment has emerged as a practical m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Implant Materials and Biocompatibility)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,677 Views
17 Pages

Dental Anxiety in Pediatric Patients: Contemporary Assessment and Multimodal Management Strategies

  • Roxana Alexandra Cristea,
  • Ioana Scrobota,
  • Mihail Pantor,
  • Liliana Sachelarie and
  • Gabriela Ciavoi

12 March 2026

Background: Dental anxiety remains a prevalent and persistent challenge in pediatric dentistry, significantly affecting children’s cooperation, treatment outcomes, and long-term oral health behaviors. Despite advances in minimally invasive care...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Dentistry & Oral Medicine)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,302 Views
15 Pages

Observational Diagnostics: The Building Block of AI-Powered Visual Aid for Dental Practitioners

  • Ruchika Raj,
  • Ravikumar Rajappa,
  • Vijayalakshmi Murthy,
  • Mahyar Osanlouy,
  • Daniel Lawrence,
  • Mahen Ganhewa and
  • Nicola Cirillo

Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant traction in medical image analysis, including dentistry, aiding clinicians in making timely and accurate diagnoses. Radiographs, such as orthopantomograms (OPGs) and intraoral radiographs, along wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Auto-Diagnosis and Clinical Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,634 Views
10 Pages

Infrared Clinical Enamel Crack Detector Based on Silicon CCD and Its Application: A High-Quality and Low-Cost Option

  • Yuchen Zheng,
  • Min-Hee Oh,
  • Woo-Sub Song,
  • Ki-Hyun Kim,
  • In-Hee Shin,
  • Min-Seok Kim and
  • Jin-Hyoung Cho

2 December 2021

Enamel cracks generated in the anterior teeth not only affect the function but also the aesthetics of the teeth. Chair-side tooth enamel crack detection is essential for clinicians to formulate treatment plans and prevent related dental disease. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Frontiers of Advanced Imaging in Dentistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,968 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Plasma Treatment on the Strength of Bonding to Ceramic Surfaces in Orthodontics—A Comprehensive Review

  • Elizabeth Gershater,
  • Olivia Griswold,
  • Brooke E. Talsania,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Chun-Hsi Chung,
  • Zhong Zheng and
  • Chenshuang Li

Over the past several decades, orthodontic treatment has been increasingly sought out by adults, many of whom have undergone restorative dental procedures that cover enamel. Because the characteristics of restorative materials differ from those of en...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Bioengineering to Clinical Orthodontics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,981 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Low-Level Laser Therapy on Dentin Hypersensitivity in Periodontally Compromised Patients Undergoing Orthodontic Treatment: A Randomised Controlled Trial

  • Zhiyi Shan,
  • Chong Ren,
  • Min Gu,
  • Yifan Lin,
  • Fung Hou Kumoi Mineaki Howard Sum,
  • Colman McGrath,
  • Lijian Jin,
  • Chengfei Zhang and
  • Yanqi Yang

10 February 2023

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the effects of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on dentin hypersensitivity (DH) in periodontally compromised patients undergoing orthodontic treatment. Methods: This triple-blinded randomised controlled trial incl...

(This article belongs to the Section Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,839 Views
14 Pages

Recent technological advancements led to the development of various plasma-based technologies for post-packaging modifications. The purpose of the present preclinical in vivo study was to assess the safety and efficacy of a novel chairside nonthermal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dental Implant Reconstruction and Biomechanical Evaluation)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,524 Views
8 Pages

Management of Calcified Canals with a New Type of Endodontic Static Guide: A Case Report

  • Roberto Fornara,
  • Massimo Pisano,
  • Giovanni Salvati,
  • Giulia Malvicini,
  • Alfredo Iandolo and
  • Carlo Gaeta

3 June 2024

(1) Background: Pulp canal obliteration (PCO) is a common condition characterized by an abnormal dentinal apposition within the canal wall, which often rises as a consequence of dental trauma. In recent years, “guided endodontics” has off...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,192 Views
12 Pages

23 February 2024

It has been observed in recent years that zirconia (Zr) is being increasingly used for a wide range of clinical applications. There are several reasons for this, but the most significant one is its excellent mechanical properties, specifically its tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,934 Views
13 Pages

The Effectiveness of Individualized Oral Hygiene Education in Preventing Dental Diseases: A Clinical Study

  • Fanni Simon,
  • Gyula Szabó,
  • Mercédesz Orsós,
  • Eitan Mijiritsky and
  • Orsolya Németh

15 September 2024

Background: Without mechanical cleaning, gingivitis can develop within three weeks. The first clinical sign is bleeding on positive probing. The accumulation of dental biofilm triggers an inflammatory gingival response. In the past decade, attention...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Patient-Centered Dental Care)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
271 Views
11 Pages

Digital Technology of Making Impressions for Multiple Implant-Supported Fixed Restorations

  • Shanshan Liang,
  • Deli Li,
  • Qianqian Zhang,
  • Fusong Yuan,
  • Lu Jia and
  • Guangju Yang

18 September 2026

Background: Digital impression technology is widely used in conventional dental fixed restorations and single-unit tooth implant supported fixed restorations, but faces challenges in accurate impressions for multiple implants. The conventional method...

(This article belongs to the Section Prosthodontics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,844 Views
14 Pages

When placing dental implants, xenografts are most commonly used clinically to compensate for the insufficient bone volume of patients. However, xenografts have limitations including low osteoinductive capacity and prolonged healing time. This study a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State of the Art: Biomaterials in Bone Implant and Regeneration (2nd Edition))
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,007 Views
17 Pages

Biomarker-Guided Implant Maintenance (BGIM): A Narrative Review and Protocol Proposal

  • Tiziano Testori,
  • Richard Lazzara,
  • Renzo Guarnieri and
  • Massimo Del Fabbro

24 March 2026

Dental implants are a popular clinical procedure for the rehabilitation of fully and partially ede ntulous patients. There is long-term evidence that implant-supported dental prostheses represent a predictable treatment for replacing missing teeth. H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Implant Dentistry)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,408 Views
7 Pages

An Unexplored Pharmacologic/Diagnostic Strategy for Peri-Implantitis: A Protocol Proposal

  • Lorne M. Golub,
  • Ismo T. Räisänen,
  • Timo Sorsa and
  • Philip M. Preshaw

5 December 2020

Dental implants are widely utilized for the replacement of missing teeth and are increasingly being placed in patients with systemic diseases, as well as in those who are medically healthy. Furthermore, it is recognized that peri-implant mucositis an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dental Peri-Implant Point-of-Care Tests)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,453 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2022

Ultraviolet (UV) light and non-thermal plasma (NTP) treatment are chairside methods that can efficiently improve the biological aging of implant material surfaces caused by customary storage. However, the behaviors of stem cells on these treated surf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,285 Views
12 Pages

14 November 2020

Ultraviolet (UV) light and non-thermal plasma (NTP) are promising chair-side surface treatment methods to overcome the time-dependent aging of dental implant surfaces. After showing the efficiency of UV light and NTP treatment in restoring the biolog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization of Biomaterials for Reconstructive and Regenerative Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,696 Views
11 Pages

Long-Term Prosthetic Aftercare of Mandibular Implant-Supported Overdenture

  • Eran Zenziper,
  • Ofir Rosner,
  • Oded Ghelfan,
  • Joseph Nissan,
  • Sigalit Blumer,
  • Gil Ben-Izhack,
  • Hagay Slutzky,
  • Isabelle Meinster,
  • Liat Chaushu and
  • Sarit Naishlos

29 August 2022

Background: Two of the most popular resilient attachment systems for mandibular implant-supported overdenture (MISOD) are locator and ball attachments. The purpose of the present retrospective cohort study was to assess the long-term prosthetic after...

(This article belongs to the Collection State-of-the-Art Dentistry and Oral Health)