Oral pathology
Oral pathology 18 April 2022
Electronic cigarettes: how much awareness of their impact on oral health?
Initially, electronic cigarettes were marketed as tools for quitting smoking, but later they became a fashion, a social tool for recreational activity.In contrast to traditional cigarettes, in CE...
Oral pathology 13 April 2022
More than two decades ago, the Oral Cancer Foundation declared April as the month for awareness of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. If detected and treated at early stage, a patient’s outcome is...
Oral pathology 28 March 2022
Author: E. Di Iorio
A 56-year-old patient in good health comes to our attention who reports the presence in the lower lip of a painless swelling which, due to an increase in size, has become subject to chewing...
Oral pathology 14 March 2022
Authors: Margherita Gobbo, Giulia Ottaviani, Katia Rupel, Matteo Biasotto
A female patient was sent to the Medicine and Oral Pathology outpatient clinic of the Dental Clinic of Trieste for the evaluation of an intensely radiopaque foreign body present in the right...
Oral pathology 07 March 2022
Authors: Riccardo Bonacina, Umberto Mariani, Valeria Martini
A 78-year-old patient is examined at the Odontostomatology Clinic for onco-haematological patients USC Odontostomatologia HPG23 in Bergamo. The medical history reveals mild hypertension, prostatic...
Oral pathology 28 February 2022
Interation between maxillo-mandibular deformities and posture: data from a recent systematic review
Maxillomandibular deformities (MMD) turn out to be an incorrect relationship between the jaws causes malocclusion. In addition to mallocclusion, MMDs involve a variety of associated symptoms such as...
Oral pathology 14 February 2022
Oral mucosal lesions: when should the dentist worry? - Interview with Prof. Giovanni Lodi
Author: Arianna Bianchi
Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (internationally known as Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma - HNSCC), and of which mouth cancer accounts for over 90% of diagnostic findings, is still...
Oral pathology 04 February 2022
Author: Massimo Ragonesi
Over the years the mutual relationship between the various painful and limiting conditions of the craniofacial region has attracted attention of clinicians and researchers. Non-specific cervical pain...
Oral pathology 06 December 2021
authors: G. Mergoni, I. Giovannacci, G. Giunta, G. Ghidini, M. Meleti, M. Manfredi, P. Vescovi
An 11-year-old patient referred to her pediatrician for a maxillary gingival lesion that had arisen about 2 months earlier and rapidly increased in size was presented for our observation. The child...
Oral pathology 01 December 2021
Authors: Giulia Pradal, Daniela Sorrentino, Niccolò Lombardi, Alberto Pispero, Laura Moneghini
A 76-year-old male patient was sent to the oral medicine service of the San Paolo Hospital in Milan for the presence of a radiolucent lesion at the level of the left mandibular corner, found through...
Oral pathology 28 November 2021
Focal infection theory: a new modernity in view of microbiota recent studies?
Authors: Carlo Fornaini, Francesco Di Pierro
The “Focal Infection Theory”, which was very popular in the 1930s, hypothesized the possibility that an infection of a specific zone might migrate to other different organs, even not contiguous,...
Oral pathology 22 November 2021
Multiple sclerosis: impact on oral health and useful advice on the management of affected patients
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an acquired, chronic disease, an immune-mediated inflammatory condition of the central nervous system (CNS) that can affect the brain, brainstem and spinal cord. It is a...
Oral pathology 20 September 2021
Oral health status and Covid-19 disease severity: is there a correlation?
Recently, WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recognized several risk factors for COVID-19 infection, including older age, diabetes, hypertension, states of...
Oral pathology 10 September 2021
VITAMIN D in oral gel as a prevention of mucositis during radiotherapy
Worldwide, head and neck cancer (HNC) counts approximately 830,000 cases and 430,000 deaths per year according to the Global Cancer Statistics "GLOBOCAN" 2018. For HNC patients, radiotherapy (RT) is...
Oral pathology 04 August 2021
Oral sarcoidosis: literature review and presentation of a primary manifestation
Authors: Marco Campana, Mariani Umberto, Valeria Martini, Riccardo Bonacina, Sonzogni Aurelio
The Objectives of this work are to propose a literature review from 2008 up to 2018 about oral manifestations of sarcoidosis and scar-sarcoidosis and to introduce a rare case of a primary intraoral...
Oral pathology 02 August 2021
Longitudinal epidemiologic analysis of three decades of TMD populations
Authors: Emanuela Serritella, Paola Di Giacomo, Chiara Vompi, Gianni Falisi, Carlo Di Paolo
Aim: This study aims to compare the epidemiological data of three cohorts of dysfunctional patients attending to the Clinical Gnathology Service of “Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital...
Oral pathology 12 July 2021
Tooth wear / Tooth surface loss (TSL) is a normal yet irreversible physiological process that occurs throughout life. It is however, considered pathological when the degree of destruction of...
Oral pathology 07 July 2021
Influence of systemic and local factors on the oral surgery healing process
Authors: Giuseppe Alessandro Scardina, Pietro Messina
The aim of the study is to describe the physiological mechanism of healing of the surgical wound of the oral cavity and to present the systemic and local factors that can influence it.Hemostasis...
Authors: Emanuela Serritella, Paola Di Giacomo, Chiara Vompi, Gianni Falisi, Carlo Di Paolo
Aim: This study aims to compare the epidemiological data of three cohorts of dysfunctional patients attending to the Clinical Gnathology Service of “Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital...
Oral pathology 25 May 2021
Odontogenic sinusitis in immunosuppressed patient: a case report and literature review
Authors: Christian Bacci; Vlatko Prosenikliev; Sara Munari; Mariagrazia Boccuto, Carmela Gurrieri; Marco Pizzi; Enzo Emanuelli
Objectives: to describe a complex multidisciplinary case.Materials and Methods: Odontogenic sinusitis accounts for about 10% of all cases of sinusitis. The incidence of sinusitis rises dramatically...
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