Category Archives: AMM 2013, Volume 59, Number 4

Clinical and Statistical Study on Canine Impaction

Coșarcă Adina-Simona1, Păcurar Mariana2, Nagy-Bota Monica-Cristina3, Ormenișan Alina4

1 PhD student, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
2 Department of Pedodontics and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
3 PhD student, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
4 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania

DOI: 10.2478/amma-2013-0044

Aim: The aim of this study was to perform a clinical and statistical research on permanent impacted canine patients among those with dental impaction referred to and treated at the Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery Clinic of Tîrgu Mureș, over a four years period (2009–2012).
Materials and methods: The study included 858 patients having dental impaction, and upon clinical records, different parameters, like frequency, gender, age, quadrant involvement, patient residence, associated complications, referring specialist and type of treatment, related to canine impaction, were assessed.
Results: The study revealed: about 10% frequency of canine impaction among dental impactions; more frequent in women, in the first quadrant (tooth 13); most cases diagnosed between the age of 10–19 years; patients under 20 were referred by an orthodontist, those over 20 by a dentist; surgical exposure was more often performed than odontectomy.
Conclusions: Canine impaction is the second-most frequent dental impaction in dental arch after third molars; it occurs especially in women. Due to its important role, canine recovery within dental arch is a goal to be achieved, whenever possible. Therefore, diagnose and treatment of canine impaction requires an interdisciplinary approach (surgical and orthodontic).

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Prevalence and Characteristics of Tooth Agenesis in Permanent Dentition of Subjects from Tîrgu Mureş

Kerekes-Máthé Bernadette1, Mártha Krisztina2, Székely Melinda1

1 Department of Morphology of Teeth and Dental Arches, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
2 Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania

DOI: 10.2478/amma-2013-0043

Background: Identification of the characteristics of tooth agenesis is an important component in the understanding of the ethiology of this common developmental dental anomaly. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and the characteristics of tooth agenesis among patients from Tîrgu Mureş.
Material and method: The present study is retrospective and descriptive, based on the evaluation of the patient’s dental records from 2004 to 2012 belonging to a pediatric dental office from Tîrgu Mureş. Orthopantomograms and anamnestic data of 947 children and young adults (365 male and 582 female) were analyzed.
Results: The prevalence of tooth agenesis, excluding third molars, was 7.39%. The difference between the genders was statistically not significant (p = 0.09). The most frequently missing teeth were the upper second incisors, followed by the lower second premolars. The difference between the distribution of agenesis in the upper and lower jaws was statistically significant (p <0.0001). The distribution of dental agenesis between the anterior region and the lateral region of the maxilla and the mandible showed significant differences (p <0.0001). Symmetrical distribution of tooth agenesis was found more frequently (54.54%) than assymetrical distribution.
Conclusions: The maxillary anterior region and the mandibular lateral region were the most affected by dental agenesis in the permanent dentition of the studied population. The maxilla was more affected than the mandible and bilateral forms of agenesis were more frequently than unilateral forms. The more extreme forms of agenesis were found amongst female.

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Tradition in Competition to Food Safety, or “Archaic Science” against Brand Name Products

Augustin Curticăpean

Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania

Traditionally, the homemade beverages or concentrated alcoholic drinks are produced by distilling different types of organic raw materials most of them from biological sources as cereals grains, fruits and juices, these being the starch sources [1], but, even from wood sources. All these sources produce both ethanol and methanol in different proportions, by fermentation process, and the serious health risk of methanol poisoning becomes high when using wood sources [2].
The European and national regulations for Food Safety do specify the strict requirements for producing alcohol drinks, and here are the brand name products, but homemade beverages with over 30% ethanol obtained by repeated distillation in manufactured copper vessels, will contain small amounts of methanol, in case that fruit juice is used the amount reach about 0.2–0.3%, but from fruit pulp the amount may rise to 0.6–0.9% [3].
The most common effects caused by exposure to methanol by drinking alcohol beverages, do not become apparent only after several hours because its metabolism is much slower than the one of ethanol.[More]

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Classical Versus Laparoscopic Approach in Retroperitoneal Lesions — Advantages and Limitations

Crăciun C1, Azamfirei L2, Coroș MF1, Crăciun RC3

1 Surgical Clinic 1, County Clinical Hospital, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
2 ICU Clinic 1, County Emergency Clinical Hospital, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
3 ”Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj Napoca, Romania

DOI: 10.2478/amma-2013-0042

Background: At present, the laparoscopic intervention in retroperitoneal primitive tumors, abscesses, haematomas and retroperitoneal effusions is still a challenge. The purpose of this paper is to identify the differences between laparoscopic and conventional surgical interventions in diseases of the retroperitoneum.
Material and method: The study follows a retrospective analysis of various retroperitoneal interventions performed on 62 patients between 2010–2012 in the Surgery Clinic 1 of Mures County Hospital. We have chosen from the casuistry the cases with tumoral diseases or non-tumoral and divided the patients into two groups: group I who had undergone classic interventions and group II who had undergone laparoscopic procedures. We studied the clinical medical records, surgical protocols and anatomopathological results.
Results: For 2010 we extracted 23 cases (39,2% classical interventions), for 2011-21 patients (31,4% classic) and for 2012 -18 cases (29,4% classical interventions). According to the type of the disease, 30 classical interventions were performed for tumoral formations and 21 interventions for non-tumoral formations. Laparoscopic tumoral cases included three tumors and a retroperitoneal metastasis,while the non-tumoral were represented by 7 urohaematic effusions as a result of percutaneous nephrolithotomy procedures.
Conclusions: Laparoscopic surgery of retroperitoneal lesions is minimally invasive, the postoperative evolution of patients is favorable, without major complications.. Classical intervention of retroperitoneal lesions is indicated in large haematomas, abscesses, and big invasive tumors with vascular factor which does not allow the use of laparoscopic technique.

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