In recent years, dental evidence has played an important role in the positive identification of unknown deceased victims of catastrophies. To improve further dental identification techniques, there is an urgent need to adopt a national policy on denture marking as a compulsory procedure in the fabrication of dentures. The favoured scheme of marking which provides the most information for the identity of the denture wearer is proposed here.
To date there is no standard protocol on evaluation of the masticatory performance in complete denture wearer even though many methods had been described in the literature for measurement of the masticatory performance of the complete denture wearers. The masticatory performances were measured either subjectively or objectively, but no positive correlation was found between subjective and objective measurement. Therefore, there is a need to standardize the objective measurement, as subjective measurements rely on patients’ perceptions, which is not reliable. Intra individual and inter individual variations that exist support the need to standardize the method of measurement.
Salvadora percisa (popularly known as miswak) has been widely used as an aid for
oral hygiene in dentate patient. There is no side effect of using miswak stick. A new approach
introduced the role of miswak stick in edentulous patient. It may prevent the incidence of denture
stomatitis among denture wearer. This study assessed the effectiveness of the miswak stick as an
oral aid in edentulous patients as an alternative treatment for denture stomatitis. (Copied from article).