Dentinal Dysplasia Type I: A Case Report with a 6-Year Followup by Sezin Ozer, Bora Ozden, Feyza Otan Ozden, Kaan Gunduz

“…A 7-year-old female who had problems in chewing function was referred to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department at the Faculty of Dentistry in Ondokuz Mayıs University. …”
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Confused Flour Beetle, Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val and Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Rebecca Baldwin, Thomas R. Fasulo

“… Red and confused flour beetles attack stored grain products such as flour, cereals, meal, crackers, beans, spices, pasta, cake mix, dried pet food, dried flowers, chocolate, nuts, seeds, and even dried museum specimens (Via 1999, Weston and Rattlingourd 2000). These beetles have chewing mouthparts, but do not bite or sting. The red flour beetle may elicit an allergic response (Alanko et al. 2000), but is not known to spread disease and does not feed on or damage the structure of a home or furniture. …”
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Confused Flour Beetle, Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val and Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Rebecca Baldwin, Thomas R. Fasulo

“… Red and confused flour beetles attack stored grain products such as flour, cereals, meal, crackers, beans, spices, pasta, cake mix, dried pet food, dried flowers, chocolate, nuts, seeds, and even dried museum specimens (Via 1999, Weston and Rattlingourd 2000). These beetles have chewing mouthparts, but do not bite or sting. The red flour beetle may elicit an allergic response (Alanko et al. 2000), but is not known to spread disease and does not feed on or damage the structure of a home or furniture. …”
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Oral submucous fibrosis: a contemporary narrative review with a proposed inter-professional approach for an early diagnosis and clinical management by Naman R. Rao, Alessandro Villa, Chandramani B. More, Ruwan D. Jayasinghe, Alexander Ross Kerr, Newell W. Johnson

“…The main risk factor is areca nut chewing. Due to its high morbidity and high malignant transformation rate, constant efforts have been made to develop effective management. …”
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The chemical and microbiological quality of pastrami produced by using various salting techniques and kept at+4°c by Ümit Gürbüz, Yusuf Doğruer, Nazif Anıl

“…It was concluded that depending upon salting techniques the pastramies loasing chewing properties became dry and salting because of significant decreament in moisture contents and increaments in salt contents at the end of the storage period.…”
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Factors Affecting Patient Satisfaction with Complete Dentures by Yara Oweis, Nadia Ereifej, Ayah Al-Asmar, Abdaljaber Nedal

“…Our results also indicated that patients who had previous dentures could adapt more easily and were generally more satisfied with their newly inserted dentures especially with regard to their chewing ability and comfort with their mandibular dentures. …”
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Validated Spectrophotometric Methods for Simultaneous Determination of Food Colorants and Sweeteners by Fatma Turak, Mahmure Ustun Ozgur

“…Two simple spectrophotometric methods have been proposed for simultaneous determination of two colorants (Indigotin and Brilliant Blue) and two sweeteners (Acesulfame-K and Aspartame) in synthetic mixtures and chewing gums without any prior separation or purification. …”
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Role of Nasal Endoscopy in Chronic Osteomyelitis of Maxilla and Zygoma: A Case Report by J. S. Arunkumar, Ashok S. Naik, K. C. Prasad, S. G. Santhosh

“…Factors like viral fevers, malnutrition, malaria, anemia,tobacco chewing, immunodeficiency, osteopetrosis, Paget’s disease of bone, and florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) result in decreased vascularity of the affected bone, predisposing to the development of osteomyelitis. …”
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Incisor Malocclusion Using Cut-out Method and Convolutional Neural Network by Muhamad Farhin Harun, Azurah A Samah, Muhammmad Imran Ahmad Shabuli, Hairudin Abdul Majid, Haslina Hashim, Nor Azman Ismail, Syiral Mastura Abdullah, Aspalilah Alias

“…This condition leads to poor performance of vital functions such as chewing. A common procedure in orthodontic treatment for malocclusion is a conventional diagnostic procedure where a dental health professional takes dental x-rays to examine the teeth to diagnose malocclusion. …”
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Therapeutic effects of Salvadora persica (Miswak) on patients with mild to moderate gingivitis. by Kawa F. Dizaye, Zainab Yalman Othman

“…Group 1 used S. persica chewing stick only; group 2 used toothbrush only; group 3 used both S. persica and toothbrush, group 4 used S. persica mouthwash and toothbrush; while group 5 used chlorhexidine mouthwash and tooth-brush. …”
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The Rapunzel Syndrome: An Unusual Trichobezoar Presentation by Luiz Roberto Lopes, Priscilla Sene Portel Oliveira, Eduardo Marcucci Pracucho, Marcelo Amade Camargo, João de Souza Coelho Neto, Nelson Adami Andreollo

“…The Rapunzel syndrome is an unusual form of trichobezoar found in patients with a history of psychiatric disorders, trichotillomania (habit of hair pulling) and trichophagia (morbid habit of chewing the hair), consequently developing gastric bezoars. …”
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Human Amniotic Membrane Positioning in the Surgical Treatment of Temporomandibular Joint Degenerative Disorder by Luca Guarda-Nardini, Diletta Trojan, Giulia Montagner, Elisa Cogliati, Matteo Bendini, Daniele Manfredini

“…Three months after the intervention, the patient reported an overall improvement in chewing efficiency as well as the absence of pain. …”
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Use of Seatbelts and Observable Factors among Public Transport Drivers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Semegnew Takele, Yifokire Tefera, Teferi Abegaz, Hailemichael Mulugeta

“…The prevalence of proper seatbelt use was 47.5% [95% CI (43.0–51.3)]. Khat chewing [AOR: 2.41, 95% CI (1.04–5.60)], engaged in driving distraction activities [AOR: 2.93, 95% CI (2.08, 4.13)] and being city bus drivers [AOR: 1.66, 95% CI (1.09, 2.52)], were significantly associated with improper seatbelt use. …”
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Oral Rehabilitation of Oral Cancer Patients Using Zygomatic Implant-Supported Maxillary Prostheses with Magnetic Attachment: Three Case Reports by Hisashi Ozaki, Hiromasa Sakurai, Yukie Yoshida, Hideyuki Yamanouchi, Mitsuyoshi Iino

“…The oral function was evaluated before and after prosthodontic treatment with implants using the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) and functional chewing score. Results indicated improvement in all cases. …”
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Application of Food Mechanics and Oral Processing in Modelling First Bite of Grilled Meat by Ilija V. Djekic, Jovan G. Ilic, Bartosz G. Sołowiej, Rastko I. Djekić, Igor B. Tomasevic

“…A higher level of differences was observed comparing the number of chews for pork meat compared to poultry meat. The chewing rate showed a statistical difference with values in the range of 1.31 chews/s to 1.46 chews/s for pork meat and between 1.36 chews/s and 1.42 chews/s for poultry meat. …”
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Ruminal Acidosis in Feedlot: From Aetiology to Prevention by Joaquín Hernández, José Luis Benedito, Angel Abuelo, Cristina Castillo

“…In feedlots, warning signs include decrease in chewing activity, weight, and dry matter intake and increase in laminitis and diarrhea prevalence. …”
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Osteomyelitis of the Mandible Caused by Late Fracture following Third Molar Extraction by Shinsuke Yamamoto, Naoki Taniike, Daisuke Yamashita, Toshihiko Takenobu

“…When the patient was chewing an innards stew 23 days after the procedure, he heard a cracking sound from the right mandible. …”
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Incidence and morphological study of lice infested chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Nineveh governorate, Iraq by Nadia H. mohammed, Rawaa G. Mohammed, Waad K. Khalaf

“…Lice were identified by using a dissecting microscope and scanning electron microscopy to determine the exact structure of chewing lice, such as features of the head, chest, abdomen, legs, and claws of legs location and segmentation of antennae, setae of M. stramineus, and L. caponis. …”
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Patient-reported outcomes of esthetics, function and oral hygiene with single dental implants 10–15 years after placement: a cross-sectional study by Viveca Wallin Bengtsson, Christel Lindahl, Sven Scholander

“…One dentist reviewed the photographs using the pink esthetic score/white esthetic score (PES/WES) index.  Results: For chewing and for speaking, the scores were 8.8 and 9.9 respectively on a VAS (best 10). …”
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Development of a pressure acquisition system for detecting mandibular movements in ruminants by Geraldo Loyola Baiôco, Fábio Luiz Bertotti, André Luis Finkler da Silveira, João Ari Gualberto Hill

“…This system employs a pressure sensor to obtain signals relating to chewing movement. A microcontroller acquires these signals at a sampling frequency of 100 Hz, and the resulting data are transmitted to a smartphone via Bluetooth and stored in a memory card for later analysis. …”
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