Bacteria employ various signaling systems to communicate and sense their environment. The autoinducer type II (AI-2) signaling system is, however, unique in its widespread presence across the bacterial kingdom, allowing ...

Repair of defective dental restorations may often save the patient time, pain and money at the dentists. Repair seem to be good treatment as to the quality of restorations, and preservation of teeth on the long run. Good ...

Dentale implantater som retensjon for protetikk har blitt et behandlingsalternativ som ofte er førstevalget når tenner skal erstattes. Førstevalget hva gjelder materiale er enten titan eller titanbaserte legeringer, og ...

The lack of knowledge regarding the long-term effect of retention on anterior tooth alignment provided much of the motivation for this research project. Further, the work would give information about long-term outcome of ...

The reported prevalence of dental erosive wear varies from 20-58 % in adolescents. In addition to minimizing the acidic risk factors, preventive strategies are important to slow down the tooth substance loss and thereby ...

Objectives<br> The general aim of this thesis was to describe oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in adults in the county of Nord-Trøndelag and in a national representative sample of Norwegian adults. A further ...

In this study we investigated whether furanones could prevent biofilms from being formed. Our first aim was to find a new synthesis pathway for (Z)-5-bromomethylene-2(5H)-furanone, a furanone also produced in nature by the ...