The prognosis studies analyzed here can be considered phase II explanatory studies. The next step is to construct and validate models, which can be applied for use in the clinical practice, to guide patient management or build explanatory models that can help better understand the causative role in the disease process of these markers.
This paper considers issues that relate to staff recruitment, staff development and global mobility of dental academics. Published literature, which has a North American bias, is reviewed. Recommendations, which may be applicable world‐wide, are made to address evident and pertinent areas of concern in terms of the availability of quality dental teaching staff in dental teaching institutions so as to sustain the global dental academic enterprise at appropriately high levels of achievement.
Human face is the direct message to anyone (s)he meets for the first time. Genetics and environment effects our face as it is mostly shaped during intrauterine life to adolescence. A pediatric dentist is one of the practioners who meets the wondering child in these referred early ages. Besides genetic backround, deleterious habits such as duration of breastfeeding, bottle feeding, finger sucking or an object should be noted. While examing a child patient, the practioner should interfere with how the child's face look, evaluate the proportions of the face, further check if there are nay malocclusions, take a good anamnesis of nasal and oral habits. The present review emphasis the importance of dentofacial orthopeadic in children.
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