Medicine and Dentistry: New Methods and Clinical Approaches—2nd Edition

A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Dentistry and Oral Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 339

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Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome ”Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
Interests: oral health; TMD; oral surgery; prosthesis

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Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue entitled “Medicine and Dentistry: New Methods and Clinical Approaches—2nd Edition”. This is our new volume; we published 21 papers in the first volume. For more details, please visit the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina/special_issues/035QB5Q6UK

In the last few years, dentistry has expanded its research aspects and its cooperation with other disciplines.

The development of new technologies, materials, and methods has created collaboration and union between dentistry and medicine. This has occurred in all branches of dentistry: conservative, endodontics, periodontics, implantology, oral surgery, and orthodontics. Therefore, this Special Issue demonstrates the new discoveries in dentistry with the scientific evidence of medicine. The relationship between medicine and dentistry also affects periodontal diseases. Therefore, papers on the correlation between various medical specialties are accepted. In addition, with increasing age and diseases, the dentist must know how to treat patients with comorbidities.

Authors conducting studies on these topics are welcome to submit original research articles, reviews, short communications, case series, and case reports.

Dr. Stefano Rizza
Dr. Rocco Franco
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • oral health
  • new materials
  • medical approach
  • periodontal disease
  • bruxism
  • oral surgery

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Evaluation of Treatment Protocols in Surgically Assisted Rapid Maxillary Expansion by Finite Element Analysis
by Duygu Cihaner, Derya Karabulut, Ozen Dogan Onur, Erol Cansiz and Yunus Ziya Arslan
Medicina 2024, 60(9), 1400; https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina60091400 - 26 Aug 2024
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Background and Objectives: Transverse maxillary deficiency is an important maxillary anomaly that is very common in society and remains current in orthodontics. The maxillary expansion has been used in treatment for a long time. While maxillary expansion can be performed with rapid [...] Read more.
Background and Objectives: Transverse maxillary deficiency is an important maxillary anomaly that is very common in society and remains current in orthodontics. The maxillary expansion has been used in treatment for a long time. While maxillary expansion can be performed with rapid maxillary expansion in young adults, it is performed with surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion (SARME) in individuals who have reached skeletal maturity. No consensus has been reached on the most successful surgical technique or the ideal appliance for treating transverse maxillary deficiency. Accordingly, we aimed to evaluate various surgical techniques and orthodontic appliances for treating transverse maxillary deficiency using the finite element method (FEM) to identify the treatment protocol that minimizes stress on the maxillary bone and teeth. Materials and Methods: On the virtual models obtained from the cone beam computed tomography of a patient, two different incisions (the pterygomaxillary junction is separated and not separated) were made and combined using three different orthodontic appliances (tooth, bone, and hybrid assisted). Then, stresses over the maxillary bone and maxillary teeth were calculated by FEM. Results: Our results showed that when the pterygomaxillary plates were separated, fewer stresses were observed on the bone and teeth. Although hybrid-supported appliances created less stress on the teeth than tooth-supported appliances and no difference was found between bone-supported appliances, it was found that hybrid-supported appliances created less stress on the bone than the other appliances. Conclusions: The separation of the pterygomaxillary junction in the SARME operation and the use of a bone-supported or hybrid-supported appliance would place less stress on the bone and teeth. Full article
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