School of Dentistry

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Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry is located in Tabriz, capital city of East Azarbayjan Province and is the only dental schoolwestern Iran. Tabriz Dental School was founded in 1986. The first students entered in 1987, graduating in 1993. In 1997 the school moved into a new and modern building, covering 22,000 square meters. The school expanded its educational programs in 2001 by offering its postgraduate specialty courses in three fields and at present it offers seven postgraduate specialty courses. Prospects for the Future We are determined, by asking for assistance from the Almighty, to promote the school's academic excellence, raise the standards of oral health in the community and join the circle of highly qualified dental schools in the country through optimizing instruction standards and innovative research programs. Mission Tabriz Faculty of Dentistry as the only dental school in the north-western Iran and as a part of a major university has combined and enjoyed the endeavors of competent and qualified academic staff with appropriate facilities and has committed itself to: Training highly qualified general practitioners and specialists; Updating the knowledge and skill of the graduates working in the north-western Iran;

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    Association of dental amalgam fillings with neurodegenerative diseases (multiple sclerosis and alzheimer's disease): Systematic review and Meta-analysis
    (University of Medical , school of dentistry, 2020) Molaei, Zahra; Pournaghiazar, Fatemeh; Abbaszadeh, Omid; تشخیصو بیماری های دهان و دندان; Taghavi Zenouz, Ali; Pourzare, Solmaz
    Introduction: Mercury is a neurotoxin element that is released from dental amalgam restorations. Since circumstantial evidence exists that the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer (AD) and multiple sclerosis disease (MS) might be in part caused or exacerbated by inorganic mercury, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis using a comprehensive search strategy. Materials & Methods: A systematic search of resources to investigate the association between dental amalgam and Ms and AD from Google scholar, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Scopus, Proquest, Ovid and Web of science was completed. Studies were screened according to a pre-defined protocol. Two individuals independently assessed the quality of the articles. Endnote X5 resource management software was used to organize, study titles and abstracts as well as identify duplicates. Finally, 6 articles were included in the meta-analysis. A random effect model was also used to perform the meta-analysis. Results: Mean difference of restoration numbers between two groups was (Pooled Mean difference = 0.58, 95% CI: 0.33-0.83, p-value <0.001) with greater numbers in MS patients. The pooled OR for the risk of MS among amalgam users was 1.02 (95% CI, 0.86-1021, p=0.81) with a slight non statistically significant increase between amalgam use and MS risk. In the case of Alzheimer's disease, due to the limited number of previous studies, only previous studies were reviewed. Conclusion: Although a suggestive elevated risk was found for those individuals with a large number of dental amalgams, the difference between cases and controls was not statistically significant. It seems that the number of amalgam fillings are among the factors associated with MS disease.