1. The tooth-worm: historical aspects of a popular medical belief

   • W. E. Gerabek

   REVIEW Pages: 1 - 6

2. Salivary mutans streptococci and lactobacilli in 9- and 13-year-old Italian schoolchildren and the relation to oral health

   • E. Brambilla
   • Svante Twetman
   • L. Strohmenger

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 7 - 10

3. Fatigue behaviour of different dentin adhesives

   • Roland Frankenberger
   • Norbert Krämer
   • Anselm Petschelt

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 11 - 17

4. Transverse changes after surgical closure of complete cleft lip, alveolus and palate

   • Jörg A. Lisson
   • Reinhard Schilke
   • Joachim Tränkmann

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 18 - 24

5. Cytopathologic effects of arecoline on human gingival fibroblasts in vitro

   • Yu-Chao Chang
   • Kuo-Wei Tai
   • M.-Y. Chou

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 25 - 29

6. Tooth-colored restorations of posterior teeth in German dental education

   • Anette Schriever
   • Joachim Becker
   • Detlef Heidemann

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 30 - 34

7. Caries pattern and oral health habits in 2- to 6-year-old children exhibiting differing levels of caries

   • S. Gizani
   • F. Vinckier
   • D. Declerck

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 35 - 40

8. Cytocompatibility of periodontal dressing materials in fibroblast and primary human osteoblast-like cultures

   • B. Alpar
   • H. Günay
   • G. Leyhausen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 41 - 48

9. Large band spectral analysis and harmful risks of dental turbines

   • S. Barek
   • O. Adam
   • J. F. Motsch

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 49 - 54