Biomedical subjects

E van Amerongen

Publications and source records attributed to E van Amerongen.

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PubMed1996

15-year evaluation of Class II amalgam restorations.

In a clinical trial, 1544 Class II amalgam restorations were inserted. In this study 1213 restorations were evaluated after 15 years and the reasons for replacement were registered. Attention was also paid to patient drop-out and patients' variables such as gender, filling degree, type of tooth (premolar vs molar), type of restoration (MO or DO vs MOD), jaw (upper vs lower) and the patients' operator. Furthermore, replacement rates of three alloys applied in comparable circumstances (n = 394) are reported. Of the restorations, 214 (17.6%) were replaced during the trial period. Factors influencing the replacement rates are gender, type of restoration and operator. Factors such as type of tooth and type of alloy seemed to have no influence on the replacement rates in this study.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1992

[Veterinary dentistry (5). Instruments for extractions in pets].

The increasing dental care of companion animals requires good instruments. The instruments needed to perform extractions well are described in this article. Research into the use of the most appropriate (used in humans) instruments has led to the establishment of a set of instruments for use for simple and complicated extractions in dogs and cats.

Animals↗

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Pain related to different ways of minimal intervention in the treatment of small caries lesions.

Pain during invasive treatment of dental caries is a common phenomenon, if no local analgesia has been used before cavity preparation. Atraumatic restorative technique (ART) is a suggested procedure which is at least less traumatic for the patient. Although the ART approach has been received well by both children and adults who belong to population groups hardly ever exposed to regular oral health care, it has not yet been proven that this particular procedure really causes less pain, compared to more conventional techniques with rotating instruments. In the present study, pain was reported in connection with tooth restoration in 19.3 percent of the cases, when the ART technique was used, which is significantly less than with a conventional restorative technique (35.7 percent). Finally the results show a clear relationship in the pain reports between the first and the following treatments in both ART and the conventional technique groups.

Adolescent↗