[Determination of the average value of the condylar slope of black Africans]. / Détermination de la valeur moyenne de la pente condylienne du sujet africain mélanoderme.

The objective of this work was to determinate the average value of the condylar slope of Black African subject and to set up its variation according to whether the localization of the hinge axis is real or arbitrary. With this intention, we made an axiographic study at 63 subjects presented complete natural teeth, with a normoclusion in class 1 of Angle. The results of this study reveal that the average value of the slope condylar is 44,28 degrees in arbitrary hinge axis and 45,7 degrees in hinge axis real; and this difference is not statistically significant. The graphic recording of condylar displacement by the "Quick-Axis" is thus possible without risk of error in the layout and the reproduction of the mandible movements which is of a great interest for the general practitioner taking into account the simplicity of handling of the FAG system.

[Composite-bonded bridges reinforced with Ribbond THM ribbon: an alternative of choice to other temporary prosthetic methods]. / Les bridges collés en composite renforcés avec l'attelle Ribbond THM: une alternative de choix aux autres moyens transitoires prothétiques.

In the presence of anterior unitary tooth loss, the therapeutical arsenal of the practitioner remains the implant solution. But, at the young patients who have not completed their growth, it's necessary to pass by a transitional stage. The bonded bridges reinforced by a polyethylene fibbers splint such as Ribbond THM constitute an alternative of choice to solve the aesthetic damage in the short and medium term while waiting for the prosthesis with implant. It's a similar case that is reported through this article.

[Pilot prospective study of prosthesis needs at the prosthesis service of the CCTOS of Abidjan]. / Etude prospective pilote des demandes prothetiques au service de prothese du CCTOS* d'Abidjan.

Studies on the dental health in Ivory Coast showed that the specific needs in prosthesis are numerous. Are there covered? What are the rates of the prosthetic consumption? It is to this question that the authors of the present work wanted brought a beginning of answer through a pilot prospective survey on the prosthetic demand to the service of prosthesis of the CCTOS of Abidjan. This survey was about 150 patients of all sex and all age come specifically for prosthetic rehabilitation, during the active period of February to April 1994. It takes out again of this survey this following results: from a general epidemiological point of view, the women are more numerous than the men, with an access frequency of 56%. Most topics are young, with an age between 20 and 30 years. The "social" rates that convenient the CCTOS attract the patients whose economic income is little important gladly or that are deprived of a health insurance. The prosthetic antecedents show that more than 65% of the topics never carried mainly a prosthesis for lack information or for lace money. Among the topics that already underwent a prosthetic treatment, prosthesis associate partial resin is the more frequently recovered in spite of an interesting rate of fixed prosthesis (37% of carriers). The clinical data reveal that aesthetic remains the main motive of the consultation, with 58% of demands and the prosthesis associate resin is in more of 70% of the cases the chosen therapeutic option.

[Predominant occlusal function during lateral mandibular movements in the black African patient]. / Recherche d'une fonction occlusale prédominante au cours des mouvements de latéralité, chez le sujet africain mélanoderme.

The research of the predominant occlusal function during mandibular movements of laterality at the topic African melanoderme, drove authors of this survey to: select 52 healthy topics (11 women and 41 men), aged of 22 to 33 years old observe and note at every topic the presence and the nature of contacts or their possible absence of the working side during the movement of deduction. Observations done as well directly in mouth, that on models put in semi-adaptable articulators, permitted to note that the function of posterior group is more the recovered so much at women that at men, at the young adults and at adults.