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AIM: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between environmental risk factors [adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD), eating habits, hygiene habits, body mass index (BMI)] with the presence of caries in a university-based cohort of paediatric patients. MATERIALS: A total of 118 paediatric patients were included in the study. In addition to the evaluation of clinical (vitality test, percussion test) and radiographic (X-ray bitewing, OPT) parameters, patients' lifestyle was investigated through validated questionnaries. Data regarding decayed, missing, filled teeth index were recorded for both permanent (DMFT) and deciduous teeth (dmft). Logistic/linear regression models (crude estimates) and multiple regression models (logistic/linear) adjusted for confounding factors were built to evaluate the association between lifestyle habits and caries. The results were reported as Odds Ratio (OR - con 95% CI) for logistic regression models and Mean Difference (MD - con 95% CI) for linear models. CONCLUSION: The present study confirmed the role of nutritional habits in caries development in the paediatric population, especially for deciduous dentition. Further clinical studies are needed to improve the quality of administered questionnaires and evaluate the cause/effect relationship between environmental risk factors and caries.
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The Authors, on the basis of their experience, as well as of the data of the literature, discuss the problems of technique and tactics involved in the treatment of retrosternal goiters. As to the way of approach, they think cervicotomy should be primarily preferred, and the complementary sternotomy should be associated to the former only in some limited cases of totally dipped and large-sized goiter. They, moreover, assert that, beyond the diagnostical and therapeutical difficulties, endothoracic goiter, if adequately treated, keeps a favourable diagnosis, not dissimilar from the one of cervical goiters.
