39 articles in this issue
Wita Anggraini
Dentist usually works static in extreme posture, like forward bending of the head and neck, forward bending and lateal bending of the body, abduction arm and elevation shoulder. All of those positions could cause muscular fatigue and mechanical pain as ne... see more
Wahyu Sulistiadi
Iklim krisis yang berkepanjangan berpengaruh terhadap pelayanan kesehatan gigi dan mulut yang memiliki berbagai jenis peralatan, bahan material dan obat. Tuntutan adanya pelayanan kesehatan gigi dan mulut yang bermutu dan terjangkau oleh masyarakat menyeb... see more
Budiharto Budiharto
Behavioral factor is considered to be one of the affecting factors in individual or community health status. Preliminary studies show that dental plaque is the main causative factor of gingivitis. Mature dental plaque produces bacterial products that can ... see more
Melanie S. Djamil
As the number of DMF-T remain high, the development continues for its prevention and cures. Fluoride supplement is one of the alternative treatments in tooth decay prevention. Fluoride can suppress the glycolysis cycle by preventing the enolase process, t... see more
Angky Soekanto
The osteoclast cellular process is essential for bone growth, remodeling, and repair, and is, under normal conditions, tightly coupled to the process of bone formation by the osteoblast. It is the balance that determines skeletal mass and shape at any poi... see more
Fazwishni Siregar
Dental material should be evaluated biologically to mnimixe the biological risk. The purpose of biologic evaluation is to assess the safety level of a material intend to be used, in animals. According to ISO Technical Report no. 7504, biologic evaluation ... see more
Fazwishni Siregar,B. S. Hadijono
The purpose of cytotoxicity test is to assess the toxic effect of a substance directly to the tissue culture. MTT assay is an assay on microplate which need no cell transfers. The method may be used for evaluating proliferation and cytotoxicity of a subst... see more
Ria Puspitawati
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) is a systemic disease on childhood, which has chronic arthritis as its most prominent manifestation. One very common complication of JRA is growth disturbance. JRA involving temporomandibular joint usually result in man... see more
Istiati Soehardjo
Leukoplakia is one of the premalignant lesion in the oral cavity that caused by many chemical materials, bacterial, virus, fungi and also to be supported by condition of the patient. The internal factors are genetic and promoter beside external factors as... see more
Retno Indrawati Roestamadji,Sidarningsih Sidarningsih
Mutans streptococci is a normal flora of the mouth. Streptococcus mutans is considered to be the main etiological agent of dental caries in human. Many research have been reported about Mutans Streptococci transmission in the family. The infant first beca... see more
Ratna Farida
Serum specific IgG subclass antibodies to non-leukotoxic strains of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (Aa) NCTC 9710 and NCTC 10979 were quantified by radioimmunoassay. Samples were taken from sera of 10 patients with Juvenile Periodontitis (JP) and 10... see more
Endang W. Bachtiar,Niniarty Z. Djamal,Boy M. Bachtiar
Heat Shock Proteins (HSP) are highly conserved immunoreactive group of proteins found in microorganisms and animal/human tissue. In addition to heat, other stressful conditiions also induce stressed proteins, especially anorexia, heavy metal ion, exposure... see more
Sunarso Brotosoetarno
The use of antibiotics on infections in dentistry has been known for year recently, a lot of dentists entertained the failures of using antibiotics. There are several factors which contribute these failures, such as : 1. inaccurate clinical diagnosis of t... see more
Elza Ibrahim Auerkari,Agoeng Tjahyani,Widurini Djaya
Oral cancer is relatively uncommon in the industrialized world but accounts for about 5% of all cancer deaths worldwide, and up to 40% of all malignancies in South and South-East Asia. The present paper aims to review the role and signifivance of tumor su... see more
Pain control is of great importance in dental practice. It is pain that brings the patient to the dental office. The use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs is one important component in dentistry. But the adverse reaction of these drugs cause seriou... see more
Tuti Kusumaningsih,M. Budi Rahardjo
The main objective of this activity was to provide counseling for the parents of kindergarten children to improve their understanding on the importance of knowledge to control dental caries related to children's diet behavior. In addition, this activity a... see more
Ali Noerdin
Since ceramic and metal ceramic restorations in crown and bridge have the potential to fracture, repairing porcelain restorations has become a serious cosmetic and clinical problem. Composite resins have been the material of choice for porcelain repair in... see more
Venita Venita
Injuries to the teeth range from minor coronal fractures to total avulsion. If the injuries cause totl avulsion or luxation, there will be varying levels of injuries to the periodontal ligament, alveolus and microvascular supply. Management of the injured... see more
Bambang Irawan
Nowadays, Titanium is used for dental implants, orthodontic wires an denture bases. In Indonesia they have been widely use especially for the orthodontic treatment. Survey conducted by students from University of Indonesia showed that users have little un... see more
Siti Triaminingsih
The orthodontist has chosen the stainless-steel as a wire of choice that has a great property in elastic deformity and formability. However, some stainless-steel orthodontic wire that was found has low formability. The degree of plastic deformation during... see more
Elly Munadziroh,Muslita Indrasari
The tissue compatibility of the oral tissue to the processed denture base materials has been a subject of considerable contention. Completely polymerized polymethyl methacrylate do not cause toxicity reactions, but that methyl methacrylate monomer or othe... see more
Dyah Irnawati,Siti Sunarintyas
The aim of this research is to investigate the correlation of acrylic resins surface tension (chemial, heat, and microwave activated) on the amount of adsorbed pellicle on the acrylic surfaces. Sixty samples (10x10x2 mm) were made of chemical activa... see more
Siti Sunarintyas,Dyah Irnawati
This research was aimed to determine the composiiton of adsorbed pellicle on acrylic resin surface. Fifteen plates of 10x10x2 mm were made from chemical, heat, and microwave activated acrylic resin. The plates were incubated in saliva for 1,2,3,4, and 5 h... see more
Iki Siti Indiarti
Enamel hypoplasia is a defect in the formation of the enamel matrix, cause enamel surface defects and irregularities. The defective enamel formation may be caused by systemic or local factors. The clinical features of enamel hypoplasia may be thin enamel ... see more
Heriandi Sutadi
The management of pediatric dentistry is not only succes on the treatment, but the important thing also is to motivate the patient could prevent and keep the teeth and moth health. Prevention in pediatric dentistry not for caries prevention only, but it h... see more
Margaretha Suharsini
The clinical signs of Down's syndrome patients are mental retardation and muscular hypotonia. It is commonly found oral dysfunction in mental retardation children. The purpose of this study was to know whether in Down's sundrome patients the degree of men... see more
Udijanto Tedjosasongko,Katsuyuki Kozai
Mutans streptococcus (MS) are considered as major bacteria in human dental caries. Many studies on transmission of MS in children have adapted mother as the main source of infection. So far there are stil few reports on transmission in a group of children... see more
Sri Hartini Soemartono
Sufficient nutrition is needed to support growth and development including oral development in children. It comes from any food, which the consume since early of their life. The attention should be made not only the nutrition itself, but what kind of food... see more
Sjahril Noerdin
Local anesthetics can at times pose quite a psychological hazard for children because they cannot tolerate pain and fear. Giving good dental treatments without pain and simultaneously giving cofort and relaxation is the responsibility of the dentist. Gett... see more
Fistula cleft palate is an abnormal opening from the mouth to the nose (via the palate), where a part of the cleft palate did not heal properly after a surgical treatment. Fistula cleft palate in children is categorized as a psychic problem because of the... see more
Suzanty Ariani,Retno Hayati,Margaretha Suharsini,Corputty Johan E. Michael
Mesiodens is supernumerary teeth which is commonly found and located in midline premaxilla. The supernumerary teeth may cause clinical disorders, such as delayed eruption and malposition of permanent teeth, therefore early diagnosis and intervention is ve... see more
Periodontal disease, dentla caries and malocclusion are frequently found in mentally retarded children. The frequency of these diseases are higher than normal children. The condition of mental retardation makes these children difficult to care for their o... see more
Tri Erri Astoeti
The purpose of this study was to determine the best strategy to develop dental health institution. This study used operational research method with qualitative and quantitative analysis and aided by forecasting technique such as Time Series Forecasting fr... see more
Widijanto Sudhana
Cigarette smoking has long been suspected to be associated with a variety of oral conditions including dental caries. However, the association between habitual smoking with the caries incidence have to be further elucidated. The caries epidemiological dat... see more
Felix Aryadi Joelimar
The low value of F/DMF-T ration on Performed Treatment Index in Indoneisa gives an indication of great problems in dental treatment utilization. Dental treatment utilization is affected by several obstacles, the greatest among which is psychosocial obstac... see more
Winiati Sidhata
Dental care involves more than treatment of consequences of disease, repairing when necessary, and monitoring the restored state to ensure that health maintained. Placing a restoration in tooth does not offer immunity on the tooth and new disease can occu... see more
Edi Hartini Sundoro
The need for conservative dentistry treatment for the elderly is different to the need of the other age group. Usually the main problem is root surface caries which in the future will increase in accordance with the demographic changes so that the aging p... see more
Treatment of caries lesions has been shifted to a preventive approach and the recommended measures by the WHO are clinical and radiological examination to detect early lesions and cavities, evaluation of caries risk factors, management of these factors, t... see more
Narlan Sumawinata
Dental caries is a multifactorial disease that it is a preventable one. The assessment and control of the risk factors, therefore, plays a significant role in evading the development of caries. Risk factors include medical and dental history, clinical, ra... see more