Caries is the illness of dental hard tissue that causes a cavity to be formed on the surface of the tooth because of the destruction of the tissue. This case is known as demineralization or the mel…
A proper oral hygiene can be achieved and maintained by mechamcal and Chemical. Toothbrushing is the important role to improve the level of dental and oral hygiene. One of the way to train the chil…
Hyperglicemia which occurs in Diabetes Melitus (DM) due to under secrection of insulin may effect increasing collagenase activities and decreasing collagen synthesis, and also may increasing the fo…
Snack containing sucrose is kinds of food that often eaten by people especially children. Consuming sucrose in a certain amount, it will decrease buffering capacity of saliva and the sooner teeth d…
Tooth decay is defined as a microbiologist infection of tooth that caused dissolution and damage of calcification tissue. Dissolve of mineralized tooth structure occurs upon contact with acids that…
Tooth paste containing herbal ingridients can be an alternative to reduce the symptoms ofgingivitis. One of the herbal ingridients which recently studied by scientists is that Aloe vera. The aim of…
Dental plaque was a soft deposit that developed a biofilm attached to the surface of teeth and gum, it could lead to dental problems such as dental caries and gingivitis if not cleaned. Mechanic cl…
Indonesia is a biodiversity country which has unique individual characteristics of each ethnicity, such as Arab and Chinese. One of those characteristics is lip print pattern. Lip print has been kn…
The treatment of dental caries is associated with pain perception, which is the main source of dental anxiety. Dental arvciety is one of the main problems in dental care. Approximately 6-15% of the…
Leprosy is a chronic diseases caused by Mycobacterium leprae, it mainly affect the skin, peripheral nerves,and other body tissues. Oral manifestations usually appear in lepromatous leprosy and rare…
Cestrum nocturnum leaves have approved to prevent the growth of Streptococcus mutans because i t contains flavonoid Flavonoids are phenolic t hal have abilitv to denaturized protein. The purpose of…
Background. Extraction is taking permanent teeth using pliers from the socket in the upper jaw and lower jaw. First permanent molar tooth extraction had the highest prevalence because of the first …
Teeth is one part of the body that serves to chew, speak and mainiain the shape of the face, so it is important to maintain healthy teeth as early as possible in order to survive longer in the mout…
Nanofill composite resin is a kind of composite resin which the size offiller particles is ranging from 0.01 to 0.04 pm. As a restorative material, nanofill composite resin would be exposed to vari…
Backgroitnd : One of the latest development of composite resin is the existence of nanofilled composite resin. The uses ofthis type of composite resin still need the a lot of r esearch, one of t he…
The process of demineralisation caused the solubility of the mineral of the teeth enamel. The condition for demineralisation of the enamel happened when the mouth pH under the critical point (the p…
Indonesia consists of various racial and ethnic groups, including Batak Toba ethnic and Arab ethnic. Each race or ethnic group has a distinctive physical appearance. In the field of dentistry, the …
Periodontal disease is a gum disease that is often complained by people and still have a relatively high prevalence. The main cause of periodontal disease is dental plaque microorganisms. Giving of…
Blood vessels dysfunction in essensial hypertension may caused the destruclion of periodontal lissues then serve to trigger periodontitis. The purpose of this research is to provide the correlation…
Tooih erosion is a local tooth damage that has pathological characteristic, caused by the Chemical process ofacid without the involvment ofbacteria activities. Cuka pempek is known to cause tooth e…
Nanofilled resin composite as a direct restorative material with excellent mechanical and aesthetic properties can be used for both anterior and posterior restoration. One of factors of restoration…
Dental caries in one of oral and dental diseases which mostly suffer by Indonesian people. It is highly correlated with oral hygiene. Oral hygiene is the most important factor of oral and dental he…
Garlic {Allium sativum Linn) belongs to a group of medical plants, it has health benefits and known since a long time. It also known as a antibacterial traits. The purpose of this study was to dete…
Background: Denture stomatitis is a chronic infection that caused by Candida albicans that occurs in 15% to 65% people who wear full or partial denture. The aim ofthis research was to evaluate the …
Disturbance in dental development (timing or sequence of eruption) may contribute to a chain of complications such as malocclusions, crowding, impaired oral hygiene, periodontal disease, and associ…
Atraumatic Restorative Trealment (ART) is a technigue for treating dental caries using hand instruments to clean dental cavities. Glass Ionomer Cement are restorative materials used in this techniq…
Sereh wangi (Cymbopogon nardus L.) is a traditional plants which contains alkaloid, saphonin, pholifenol, flavonoid and essential oil. Based on previous studies had known that sereh wangi has antib…