Tooth Paste Induced Oral Burns.

Desensitizing tooth pastes have been used for treatment of hypersensitivity for decades. Along with its benefits, it can cause some adverse effects. A 60 years old man experienced oral ulceration as a consequence of application of potassium nitrate paste overnight at lower buccal and lingual area of anterior teeth. Diagnosis was made on the basis of definitive history. Oral lesions healed well within ten days following the use of local and systemic anal and antibiotics.

Periosteal Pedicle Graft : A Promising Technique For The Treatment of Gingival Recession Defects.

The periosteum is a rich vascular connective tissue with great regenerative potentiality. The qualities of periosteum make it an ideal autogenous graft. The present case report describes the utilisation of periosteal pedicle graft for the treatment of gingival recession defect successfully.

Lipid storage myopathies with unusual clinical manifestations.

We describe the clinical presentation, course and pathologic findings found in three adult patients with lipid storage myopathy. Excessive lipid storage was found in Type 1 fibers of muscle. Clinical improvement on oral levo-carnitine therapy suggests the possibility of carnitine deficiency as the most likely etiology in two of the patients and one had mitochondrial myopathy confirmed on genetic analysis.