Editorial
Volume 2 Issue 8
Smoking Cessation through Dentists
Asaad J Mirza.
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Tobacco consumption is one of the most prevalent public health threats the world has ever faced. It kills more than 7 million people a year. In USA alone, 20% deaths occur because of smoking menace. The tobacco smoke contains thousands of chemicals of which many are considered fatally injurious to human health and can cause multiple pathological conditions in a consumer.
Case Report
Volume 2 Issue 8
Anterior Open Bite Surgical Treatment (Tt) Surgery
A Touleimat.
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Whatever was the cause of the anterior open bite, patient will end of having beside his Dental problem or situation, an increase in the vertical dimension of his maxilla posterior part, Pushing the lower jaw downwards, leading to a long lower third of the face comparing with the Upper and midface. In other words patient will end of having a skeletal open bite, that makes. Any orthodontic treatment trying to close the dental open bite, with also of its limitation in correcting this facial deformity. The orthodontic treatment will not give the ideal solution to a patient with skeletal open bite. That could be only achieved through surgery done on the elongated maxilla. The purpose of this article is to present a case of open bite that was treated surgically, through a What I tried to name (Tt) operation (Touleimat technique).
KeywordsOpen Bite; Upper Jaw; Maxilla; Anterior; Malocclusion.
Opinion
Volume 2 Issue 8
Considerations in Oral Cancer Diagnosis
Marta Miyazawa.
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According to GLOBOCAN 2018 around 228.000 deaths were caused by lip, oral and oropharynx cancer, and there were more than 443.000 new cases of these malignant tumors [1]. The late diagnosis compromises profoundly the quality of life of oral cancer patients and treatment outcome. Despite all the knowledge accumulated in all these years of cancer research, so far, the best chance for the patient to get cured of his cancer is the early diagnosis [2]. Therefore, the early detection is imperative to improve the prognosis for head and neck cancers.
