40 articles in this issue
Retno Hayati
Malformation of the face and cranium can obstacles to the individual's ability to adapt to and function in the environment, since the defect of defects involving structure of the organs of sight, hearing, taste, olfaction, and speech. The incidence of oro... see more
Widowati Siswomihardjo
Acrylic resin has been the only polymeric material for denture base for many years. One of the requirements for an ideal polymeric denture base material. It should be resistant to bacterial growth. The growth of Candida albicans on the surface of dentures... see more
Siti Sumariyah
Changes in the oral mucosa frequently is associated with aging. The epithelium becoming thinner, less hydrated and thus supposedly more susceptible to injury. Aging is characterized by decline in the ability of individuals to adapt to environmental stress... see more
Afi Savitri Sarsito
The treatment of oral and dental diseases in healthy patients can be performed with general standard and usually do not cause problems. On the other hand treatment of oral and dental diseases in medically compromised patients, especially one with disease ... see more
Oral pathosis were frequent signs or symptoms in patient with undiagnosed blood dyscrasias. The symptoms in the mouth often are the early sign of the disease, so that the patient will seek aid of the dentist first. Otherwise dentists are in the primary po... see more
Sayuti Hasibuan,Harum Sasanti
Saliva is a complex oral secretion, which producd by major and minor salivary glans about 1.5 liters in 24 hours. In the oral cavity, saliva has several important functions include cleansing action, lubrication, facilitates for chewing and swallowing, foo... see more
Satria Boedi
Dental pulsating pain such as pulpitis occurring without a clear etiology often complicates dentists in treating their patients. The dental pulsating pain without symptoms is known as odontalgia pain, an orofacia pain distributed to the oral region by eve... see more
Dewi Priandini,Titiek Setyawati
Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) symptoms usually painful and sometimes incapacitating. This condition is severed by recurrent characteristic and many efforts are conducted to encounter these things, but the results are still not satisfying. The etiolo... see more
Herman Cipto
Lichen planus (LP) is an inflammation skin and mucous membrane disease that has characteristic clinical and pathologic features. Typical lesion of LP are small, flat-topped, polygonal, violaceous papules on the skin or reticular, white patch or plaque on ... see more
Farida Soetiarto
Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is a common disease of undefine etiology. Many studies have been conducted but the result remain unsatisfied. Fortunately some predisposing factors have been identified and one of predisposing factors is hormonal imbala... see more
Janti Sudiono
It has been song suspected that there was an association between a focal infection with the prevalence of cardio-vascular disorders. The aim of this study was to observe the relationship betweem remaining infected teeth with epidemiological data of hypert... see more
Titiek Setyawati
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease complex with metabolic and vascular component and characterized by hyperglycaemia. There are over 200 million people in the world with DM and still be the center of interest because it is the third leading cause... see more
Sri Tjahjani Sumantri,Siti Aliyah Pradono
Lichen planys is disorder of the skin and mucous membrane that presenting pruritic, purple and polygonal papules. Oral lesions may persist for years and with clinical appearance that sometimes very ocnfusing. In most cases, oral lesions are present as whi... see more
Herawati Djoharnas
Maternal and child health problems are still a very big and serious problem in Indonesia, that increase number of death rate, especially during this last years of economic crisis. Posyandu is one health unit developed by the community and with the guidanc... see more
Risqa Rina Darwita,Johanes Wahyu
Until Pelita IV data on caries prevalence of school children was reported that children age 8 was 45.20% and children aged 14 was 72.76%. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the trend of caries prevalence of school children in Serpong and West Jakar... see more
Peter Andreas
The obstacles of community debelopment in developing countries are low socioeconomic status that causes ignorancy, inability, and low productivity. However, the community can survive since they have the potential of coping with their minimum sources and s... see more
Armasastra Bahar
Integrated Health Center for elderly has been established in Serpong a suburban area of Jakarta since 1998, however, to date dental health program who has not been included in the Integrated Health Center for elderly activities. Village health volunteers ... see more
Zaura Anggraeni Matram
The need for quality assessment and assurance in health and oral health becomes an issue of major concern in Indonesia, particularly in relation to the significant decrease of available resources due to the persistence economical crisis. Financial and soc... see more
Gusti Rizali Noor
On March1, 1999 the President of the Republic of Indonesia launched the "Movement For Health-oriented Development" as a national development strategy to realize Healthy Indonesia 2010. Healthy Indonesia 2010 visualizes the health status of the people of I... see more
Tritana Gondhoyoewono
Cross cultural psychology is a part of psychology that deals with the behavior of individuals or a group of people in relation with their local cultural characteristic. Their local characteristics, one, of course, not the same in nature as the west's cult... see more
Wahyu Sulistiadi,M. Wahyu Ihsan
Dental caries is dental sickness which largest proportion be compared with dental and mouth sickness, while the ten big illness of Indonesia. If seen of DMF-T and prevalence appeared, trend increase every year. The efforts have been done to descry t... see more
Bambang Nursasongko
Salah satu keberhasilan dalam penanggulangan karies ditentukan oleh penegakan diagnosis yang tepat, baik terhadap karies dini primer maupun sekunder. Selama ini pengakan diagnosis umumnya didasarkan pada anamnesis, pemeriksaan klnis dan radiologis. Anamne... see more
Edi Hartini Sundoro
Salia can be used to detect several diseases including caries. In conservative dentistry, examinations of saliva to risk factors for caries has been developed. This is partly due to the fact that treatment of caries lesions has been shifted to a preventiv... see more
Winiati Sidharta
Because of the capacity to promote environmental condition for tissue repair, calcium hydroxide can be used in management of a wide range of endodontic problems such as pulp capping, pulpotomy, root properties, it promotes mineralization, induced healing,... see more
Although the dental technology procedures has been well developed, errors of treatment in restorative as well as in endodontics are still exist. Diagnosis, case selection, and treatment procedures should be thoroughly executed to evade iatrogenic cases.
Nugrohowati Nugrohowati
The objective of this study was to disclose the effect of GaA1As laser biomodulation on pulpitis immune response. The use of laser is still disputable, because of the biomodulation effect of laser remains unclear, particularly on immune response of pulpit... see more
S. M. Soerono Akbar
Development of the biomedical sciences, oral biology and dental material sciences have an impact in the development of endodontology. Similarly are biomolecular and immunology of the pulp and periapical tissue which should be anticipated to develop endodo... see more
Dewi A. Margono
Successful of root canal treatment is determined on elimination of microorganism from the root canal system, enlargement of the canals and a hermetic seal to prevent infection or reinfection of the periapical tissues. The Ingle study revealed that the two... see more
Kamizar Kamizar
As well as inadequate understanding of restoration procedure, previous studies showed that post endodontic restoration failures are mostly due to failure in determination of the indication. The purpose of post endodontic restoration is to preserve the fun... see more
Safrida Hoesin
Cariogram is an instrument which was prepared to estimate caries occurrence among the 18 years old (Branthall et al. 1996). In the Cariogram, parameters of caries interation were consist of diet, susceptible tooth, bacteria and circumstances. However, som... see more
Ferry Sandra,Norifumi Naksmura,Hiroshi Takeuchi,Takeshi Misuyasu,Yuji Shiratsuchi,Masamichi Ohishi
The apoptotic behavior of ameloblastomas was studied using antibodies against the apoptosis related proteins, Bcl-2, Bcl-X, Bax and Bak. Most of the outer layer cells were predominantly stained by the antimodulating proteins, Bax and Bak. Among the Bcl-2 ... see more
Linda Rasubala,Hiromasa Yoshikawa,Kengo Nagata,Tadahiko Iijima,Masamichi Ohishi
Fracture healing is a sequence of events that involves a combination of intramembranous and endochondral ossification. During fracture healing, a number of growth factors and important cytokines such as BMP-2, BMP-4, TGF-ß, and PDGF-B and Osteopontin are ... see more
Evy Eida Vitria
Maxillary cuspid is the third most frequently impacted tooth after maxillary and mandibular third molar. There are factors for impacted maxillary cuspids which are minimal eruption of cupids tooth distance to the normal occlusion space in dental arch. The... see more
Hendra Chandra
Surgical exposure is a surgical method to expose mucous or bone which prevent delayed or unerupted permanent crown teeth, in order to provide normal eruption and to prevent malocclusion. Surgical exposure is usually carried out on maxillary caninces as th... see more
Untary Untary
The treatment of patients with hypertension is increasingly common. Hypertensives are a problem because they exhibit a great lability of a blood pressure. The anticipation of dental treatment causes an initial elevation of the blood pressure which may be ... see more
Dewi Nurul Mustaqimah,Irene Sukardi,Yoneda Masahiro,K. Maeda
The adherence of bacteria to the host tissues is a first step in the development of infections. Bacterial fimbriae have been shown to play an important role in the interaction between bacteria and host cells or among bacterial cells. Optical density of se... see more
Dewi Nurul Mustaqimah
In the last decade, much attention has been devoted to study immunologic factors in early-onset periodontitis (EOP). This study was designed to investigate peripheral blood lymphocyte subpopulations cells in patients with EOP, 32 patients with EOP and 10 ... see more
Setiyohadi Setiyohadi
Cardiovascular disease, including myocardial ischemia and stroke, occur as a result of complex set genetic and environmental factors. Stroke is the mayor cause of death among man in the developed world. In addition, WHO has compiled data on over 100 surve... see more
Anita H. Joedo
Rapidly Progressive Periodontitis (RPP) is a severe form of a periodontal disease which starts since a puberty age. The disease if a generalized periodontal destruction without a specific distribution mode: it develops more progressively but does not in a... see more
Sri Oktawati
Orthodontic treatment become more popular and interest by the people. Therefore a sufficient knowledge of dentist is very necessary. Improper planning and treatment or using unsuitable equipment wil damage periodontal tissue. If it's happened and untreate... see more