[Medico-legal aspects of orthodontics]. / Considerazioni sugli aspetti medico-legali in ortognatodonzia.

The deep technological innovations undergone by the medical profession, the changed relationships between physician and patient, the ever-growing attention given by public opinion to sanitary problems, as well as the growing expectation for the positive results of all me actions have determined, specially in these last years, medico-legal problems connected to the different spestic medico-surgery activities, so that also the ortodo is called to a constant comparison not only with ethical deontological problems, but with the juridical ones too.

[Epidemiological survey of dysphonia in school children. Preliminary findings]. / Indagine epidemiologica sulle disfonie in eta scolare. Dati preliminari.

In this article the Authors have performed a study on 318 students in Naples to estimate the incidence of the dysphonetic diseases in 6-12-18 years-old subjects. The investigation showed that 34.9% of examined patients revealed speech troubles; these troubles were more common in 6-years-old subjects. The dyslalies were the most common phonetic trouble (97.9%) with prevalence of sygmatism (87.9%). The Authors mean to extend the study on more large sample, although the results of the present study were significant.