Trauma, History, and the Limits of Language

The question of adequate representation through words, of a proper correlation between object and word, signifier and signified, has always been at the forefront in literary studies. This conundrum has acquired new dimensions in the last century, due to the traumatic events that marked it and led to an irrepressible need to confess and bear witness, in fictional as well as in non-fictional form. This dimension of trauma has unsettled the relationship between what words are taken to represent and the reality they stem from, as well as the very possibility of putting in words certain realities denoting unspeakable individual or collective trauma. After a short theoretical introduction into the concept of trauma, the present essay will seek to analyse a number of instances, from prose, poetry and non-fiction writings, which exemplify the various dimensions of the difficulty of talking about trauma

Evaluation of Three Esthetic Restorative Materials Used for Carious or Noncarious Cervical Lesion Restoration

Background: Cervical lesions appear on the cervical surface of the lingual or buccal side of the tooth and are classified into carious and non-carious lesions

CLINICO-STATISTICAL STUDIES REGARDING THE FREQUENCY OF SUPERNUMERARY TEETH IN A GROUP OF CHILDREN IN TG. MURES

Supernumerary teeth represent a maxillarry dental anomaly of number, registered in the 1st Angle class. The goal of the authors was to analyze the frequency and the pattern of these anomalies in number in a group of patients who presented for an orthodontic treatment at the Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry of the Faculty of Dentistry, UMFST Tg. Mures between the years 2015 and 2018 and to establish correlations between this anomaly and other pathologies belonging to the orthodontic field. The analyzed variables included age, gender, health condition, constitution, origin, and the statistical analysis was focused on the following parameters: the affected dentition and arch sector, number of supernumerary teeth and their location, association with other anomalies, onset of complications