Traumatic dental injuries among primary school children in Alexandria

Children accidents are everyone's responsibility. Accident prevention is everyone's job. Traumatic dental injuries were studied among 6061 primary school children. The males had higher rate of accidents than girls and the accidents were higher among children with illeterate mother or only read and write and not working. Most of injuries occured at street followed by home. Single fractures, maxillary central incisors and enamel dentine type of fracture were the most frequent type of fractures

first cephalometric X-ray study of king tutankamon

The Universities of Michigan and Alexandria together with the department of Antiquities have been able to make many newcontributions to the knowledge about the New Kingdom Royal mummies including the discovery of the mummy of Queen Tiye Utilizing x-ray techniques developed for the clinical application of the orthodontist and modern computor methods, it is only a matter of time before there are other major break throughs in the study of the Royal mummies, including " exactly who was king Tutankamon?"

Soft tissue analysis of the face in egyptian young adults

A cephalometric study of soft tissue analysis was performed for a random sample of 500 Egyptian young adults with an age average of 21.5 years. The means and standard deviations were calculated for seven linear measuremets and Student t test were obtained for statistical comparisons. The sex effect was significant for all the measurements, as there was a larger thickness of soft tissue in males than females. Hopefully the information derived from this study will aid the clinicians in their consideration of the soft tissue mask during the course of diagnosis and treatment planning