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Displacement of lower third molar into floor of mouth: a single institutional experience
The displacement of the tooth/tooth fragment into the floor of mouth sometimes happens during the lower third molar surgery and the patients are usually referred to oral and maxillofacial surgeons. To date, ho...
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Angiogenin is a multifunctional secreted ribonuclease that is upregulated in human cancers and downregulated or mutationally inactivated in neurodegenerative diseases. A role for angiogenin in glioblastoma was...
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The Transoral Endoscope-Assisted Approach for Removal of a Dental Implant Displaced into the Maxillary Sinus: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
A dental implant displaced into the maxillary sinus can be removed transorally or transnasally. There is no report investigating any potential positional limitations by the transoral endoscope-assisted approac...
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Since cone-beam computed tomography was developed, a number of radiological studies on the bifid mandibular canals (BMCs) and trifid mandibular canals (TMCs) have been reported. However, many of the suggested ...
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Many anatomical variations of the superficial veins of the head and neck have been reported throughout the literature. Accordingly, anatomists and surgeons must have a comprehensive understanding of these vari...
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The anatomical variations of the maxillary sinus septa, greater palatine artery, and posterior superior alveolar arteries might cause unexpected complications when they are damaged. Dentists who know these str...
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An accessory foramen around the mandibular foramen is called an accessory mandibular foramen (AMF). The clinical anatomy of the AMF has not been well described. The aim of this study was to reveal the clinical...
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Anatomy and Variations of the Lingual Frenum and Sublingual Surface
The tongue is dynamically related to various oral functions such as speech, breathing, swallowing, and breastfeeding. It is guided forward by the lingual frenum during growth. The frenum is a single fold that ...
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Variant Anatomy of the Torus Mandibularis
In Latin, “tori” means “to stand out” or “lump”. A torus mandibularis (TM) is a slow-growing bony protuberance located at the lingual side of the mandible in the premolar region above the mylohyoid line. It co...
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Novel Transcriptional Regulation of CCN2/CTGF by Nuclear Translocation of MMP3
CCN2/CTGF, previously known as Connective Tissue Growth Factor, is a crucial regulator of extra-cellular matrix (ECM), which promotes ECM synthesis and stabilization. As their family name clearly implies, matr...
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Open AccessSpecific inhibitor of MEK-mediated cross-talk between ERK and p38 MAPK during differentiation of human osteosarcoma cells
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