CBCT scanners represent a great advance in dento-maxillofacial (DMF) imaging. This technology, introduced into dental use in the late 1990s, has advanced dentistry significantly. The clinical applications for CBCT imaging in dentistry are increasing. During the past 20 years, advances in diagnosis and treatment planning software applications have evolved with the concomitant acceptance of computed tomography (CT) and cone beam CT (CBCT) technology. CBCT has been widely utilized to understand and appreciate patient anatomy since its introduction and adoptionThe clinically relevant and that the...

Synthetic Corticosteroids or steroids since the early 1940s have been developed for their anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. Dental patients with the history of corticosteroid usage may require special consideration before and after any dental treatment. In dentistry, corticosteroids are mainly useful in reducing post-surgical edema, which can cause postsurgical pain. Oral lichen planus, oral sub mucous fibrosis, pemphigus vulgaris, erythema multiforme, aphthous stomatitis and allergic reaction respond very well to topical or systemic corticosteroids. Corticosteroids should be...

The systemic disease that an oral physician suspects is usually of greater significance to the patient than the oral lesion with which he presented.Laboratory investigation plays a very important role in diagnosing various oro-mucosal lesions, various oral manifestations of systemic disease which manifest in the oral cavity & to treat them appropriately. Laboratory investigation has become an important part of medical diagnostic procedure by adding its objective information to the more subjective history and physical examination of the patient. In last few decades laboratory investigation...