Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Homoeopathy, Technikon Natal, 2002. / The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative effectiveness of Homoeopathic Similimum against a Homoeopathic Complex (Chamomilla 30CH Belladonna 30CH and Scutellaria lateriflora 06) in the treatment of problematic primary dental eruption, thereby expanding on previous nornoeopathic research. This study was a double blind randomised clinical investigation, which compared a Homoeopathic Teething Complex with Homoeopathic Similimum treatment. Thirty infants were selected for this study if they were between the ages of four months and three years and experiencing problematic teething. The criteria for the study required that the infants involved exhibited the following signs and symptoms of teething: irritability, waking at night, biting and chewing objects, decreased appetite, increased thirst, diarrhoea without dehydration, hypersalivation, flushed cheeks or circumoral rash and swollen red gums. / M

Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's degree in Technology: Homoeopathy at Technikon Natal, 2000. / The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative effectiveness of a Homoeopathic complex (Calcarea carbonica 15CH, Calcarea phosphorica 15CH, Chamomilla 30CH, Kreosotum 30CH and Pulsatilla 30CH) compared to a herbal teething gel (plantago tincture, Verbascum tincture and Kava Kava tincture) in terms of the clinical manifestations of problematic teething in infants. / M

Teething, a common subject of discussion among nursing mothers has been held responsible for a variety of childhood ailments by both health professionals and parents. It appears to be a social construct coined by society to express the experience the child goes through during early days of childhood. Teething to the dental profession is the biological expression of tooth movement, in a predominantly axial direction, from the tooth's developmental position within the jaws to its emergence in the oral cavity. Several studies have reported both health professionals and parents to attribute local and systematic disturbances to the eruption of the primary dentition. The mothers experience and understanding of teeting have not been reported on. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the mothers experience of their child's teething. The objectives of the study were to determine what mothers understood by the term teething / to establish the signs and symptoms mothers associate with teething / to ascertain the treatment sought by mothers for their child's teething / to investigate how mothers in different setting understand and respond to teething.

Teething, a common subject of discussion among nursing mothers has been held responsible for a variety of childhood ailments by both health professionals and parents. It appears to be a social construct coined by society to express the experience the child goes through during early days of childhood. Teething to the dental profession is the biological expression of tooth movement, in a predominantly axial direction, from the tooth's developmental position within the jaws to its emergence in the oral cavity. Several studies have reported both health professionals and parents to attribute local and systematic disturbances to the eruption of the primary dentition. The mothers experience and understanding of teeting have not been reported on. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the mothers experience of their child's teething. The objectives of the study were to determine what mothers understood by the term teething / to establish the signs and symptoms mothers associate with teething / to ascertain the treatment sought by mothers for their child's teething / to investigate how mothers in different setting understand and respond to teething.

Orientador: Pedro Duarte Novaes / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T04:08:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pasetto_Silvana_D.pdf: 2934024 bytes, checksum: e55fbc0178e149fd28ba97d8ca9267d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: O objetivo deste estudo, foi analisar, por meio da técnica de imunohistoquímica, a distribuição do EGF, EGFr, TGF-b1, IL-1a e CSF-1, em 3 diferentes regiões dos incisivos inferiores de ratos, em condições funcionais normais e alteradas. Cinquenta animais, tiveram seus incisivos inferiores esquerdos, seccionados na altura da papila interdental, permanecendo fora de oclusão, sendo considerados hipofuncionais (Ho), seus contralaterais, em sobrecarga de função foram chamados hiperfuncionais (Hr). Vinte e cinco destes animais, sofreram a intervenção apenas uma única vez, sendo sacrificados 8 horas após, os outros vinte e cinco animais, sofreram a intervenção a cada 2 dias, sendo sacrificados no 8o dia de desoclusão. Dez animais pertencentes ao grupo controle (c), tiveram seus incisivos mantidos em condições funcionais normais de erupção. As hemimandíbulas de todos os animais foram fixadas em Karnovsky (com 0,1% de glutaraldeído), descalcificadas em EDTA 4,13%, subdivididas transversalmente em 5 regiões e incluídas em paraplast. Cortes transversais, com 4 mm de espessura de cada peça foram coletados em lâminas silanizadas e submetidos à técnica de imunohistoquímica. O folículo dental e o ligamento periodontal, mostraram variações nas intensidades de marcação, com todos os anticorpos, entre as diferentes regiões e entre os grupos analisados. Aparentemente, no entanto, os tecidos periodontais dos incisivos, após 8 dias de hipofunção, mostraram imunoreatividade mais forte, particularmente com o CSF-1, quando comparados com os incisivos, em condições funcionais normal e alterada. Os resultados parecem sugerir, que a ¿cascata¿ formada por essas moléculas, pode estar relacionada com a ampliação da via eruptiva do incisivo, que cresce por um período prolongado da vida do animal / Abstract: The aim of this study, was to analized, using immunohistochemical technique, the distribution of EGF, EGFr, TGF-b1, IL-1a e CSF-1, in periodontal tissues of three regions of rat lower incisors, in normal and altered functional conditions. Fifty animals, had their left lower incisors, cut at the level of the interdental papilla. Becoming out occlusion, they are considered hipofunctional teeth. The contralateral incisors, attrited with both upper incisors are considered hiperfunctional teeth. Twenty-five of these animals were killed 8 hours after. In the order twenty-five animals, the shortening was repeated every second day, and killed 8 days after. Ten animals were kept in normal functional conditions. The hemimandibules of all animals were fixed in Karnovsky (with 0,1% of glutaraldehyde), demineralized with EDTA, subdivided in five transversal regions and embedded in paraplast. Cross sections, 4 mm-thick were collected in glass slides coated with silane. The antibodies were developed with DAB plus H2O2. The dental follicle and the periodontal ligament showed variation in the staining intensities, for all antibodies used, among the different regions and groups analyzed. Apparently, however, the periodontal tissues of the incisors, after eight days of hipofunction, showed stronger immunoreactivity, particularly with CSF-1, as compared with incisors under normal and hiperfunctional conditions. The results suggest that this molecular ¿cascade¿, may be related with the enlargement of the rodent incisor eruptive pathway, since these teeth grow for a long period of animal¿s life / Doutorado / Histologia e Embriologia / Doutor em Biologia Buco-Dental