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Abstract: There are several differential clinical diagnoses of infectious perioral lesions in childhood, the most frequent being: herpes labialis, angular cheilitis (cheilocandidiasis) and impetigo, the latter being a bacterial infection prevalent in children, with rupture of the labial and perioral region, whose diagnosis is mainly based on clinical findings and careful analysis of the anamnesis. Objective: To present two clinical cases of bullous impetigo in pediatric patients, highlighting their characteristics, comparing, and contrasting them with their main differential diagnoses. Case report. We present two cases of 10-year-old male patients (twin brothers) with a history of Pierre Robin sequence, who attended the Pediatric Dentistry clinic of the ENES, UNAM, León unit, presenting multiple ulcerative lesions, located in the perioral area, referring two weeks of evolution. Diagnosis. The clinical diagnosis of: bullous impetigo is established for both patients. Treatment plan. Strict general hygiene measures were indicated and in the affected areas, also eliminating any object that acted as a fomite, preventing the sharing of personal hygiene products, in addition, the application of mupirocin cream at 2% was shown, carrying out the monitoring of the 14 and 30 days until complete healing. Conclusions. Perioral impetigo is frequently confused with other infections present in that location with similar clinical manifestations. In some cases, it is usually treated incorrectly. Therefore, the importance of carrying out an adequate interrogation, a thorough clinical examination and performing a clinical differential analysis in this type of injury is highlighted.

Ellis–van Creveld syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a tetrad of disproportionate dwarfism, ectodermal dysplasia, postaxial polydactyly, and congenital heart malformations. In this article, we hereby present a case of a 6-year-old Brazilian boy with Ellis–van Creveld syndrome who presented with a remarkable number of classical oral and dental features and uncommon findings such as taurodontism. Clinical examination revealed multiple enamel hypoplasia, absent vestibular sulcus, alveolar serrations in the maxilla anterior region, missing teeth, conical teeth, lower canine rotation, bilateral posterior crossbite, dental caries, and a nodule. Radiographically were observed teeth agenesis, taurodontism of deciduous and permanent molars, and delayed tooth eruption. Clinical and radiographic findings may be present from birth and the pediatric dentist has a fundamental role in the early diagnosis of Ellis–van Creveld syndrome, as well as oral problems prevention, rehabilitation, and aesthetic interventions.

The purpose is to analyze the characteristics of the studies and trends in scientific publications and the clinical recommendations related to COVID-19 in pediatric dentistry. Electronic search was performed on MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and LILACS/VHL databases, without restrictions. Studies that used terms referring to COVID-19, pediatric dentistry, and children in the title, abstract, or keywords were included. Bibliometric data and studies’ characteristics were extracted. Each study was categorized according to its design, sample, and main subject. Forty-nine studies were included, most of them reviews (n=25; 51.00%), observational studies (n=23; 47.00%), and clinical study (n=1; 2%). The main topics were dental emergencies (n=9; 18.30%), biosafety (n= 8; 16.30%) and teledentistry (n=6; 12.20%). The most reported dental emergencies were trauma (n=12; 63.10%), edema (n=9; 47.30%), and pain (n=9; 47.30%). It was concluded that few studies on COVID-19 and pediatric dentistry were conducted, and most reviews and observational studies regarding dental emergencies were published in Asia.

Pediatric Dentistry clinical practice constitutes a diverse scenario, which demands creative and innovative methods to communicate and guide the patient's behavior and facilitate their treatment. This article presents a Case Report of three patients, in which distraction by magical suggestion (MSD) was used as a behavioral guidance strategy. The objective was to evaluate patient behavior during dental treatment with the use of Magical Suggestive Distraction Technique (MSD). Methods: 3 patients between 3 and 6 years of age were selected from a private Pediatric Dentistry Clinic in Cúcuta, Colombia, who were treated by a specialist who applied the principles of the MSD method, in order to assess their behavior during treatment, both by the operator and the authors, for which the procedures were filmed in the presence and with the consent of the parents. Results: Reveal a positive and definitively positive behavior in the 3 patients evaluated; two patients were classified as F4 and one as F3+ at the end of each procedure. Acceptance to treatment was progressive while induction and treatment were carried out. Positive response changes in attention, cooperation, and decreased anxiety and fear were observed. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the by Magical Suggestion Distraction Technique (MSD) technique was effective in achieving positive behavior and experience, creating an illusion that the patients accepted with conviction.

Introduction: Contemporary adhesive techniques allow the conservative and aesthetic rehabilitation of teeth affected by dental caries, dentoalveolar trauma, and enamel development defects. For the restorative treatment of hypomineralization of molars and incisors (HMI), indirect restorations have been recommended. Case report: Symptomatic female patient, 8 years old, with severe HMI and slightly negative behavior. Teeth 16, 36, and 46 presented marked opacities associated with provoked pain. The treatment focused on educating the family regarding the HMI, guiding behavior, controlling the symptoms, and restoring the function and aesthetics of the teeth affected by the HMI. Due to the extension, severity, and location of the defects in teeth 16, 36, and 46, it was decided to perform indirect restorations with composite resin. After 12 months, the patient presented definitively positive behavior, and did not report painful symptoms, the restorations were without color change, well adapted, with good gingival health and adequate occlusal anatomy, smooth and without signs of dental caries lesions. Conclusion: In this case of severe MHI, indirect resin restoration was an esthetic, conservative, viable, and effective strategy during a 12-month follow-up period.

The main objective of pediatric dentistry is to take care of children and adolescents' health, always based on a comprehensive vision of the individual. This goal is significantly supported by the dissemination of knowledge that is easily accessible to families and children. ALOP has actively participated in the dissemination of quality scientific information through publications based on the best available evidence, worked on by the interdisciplinary team of experts of ALOP. This is not only for the scientific community but also for the general public in simple language and open access. Of course, many people have contributed to these efforts. We thank all our collaborators and our legion of reviewers from around the world who were important actors in providing evidence in real-time to colleagues in pediatric dentistry. With this effective communication and broad commitment among researchers and health professionals, we are united in generating trust among people in health information sources and services. We hope to continue to count on the selfless work and commitment of all researchers and all readers in the dissemination of information with high scientific value, countering the presence of "fake news" and generating a positive impact on the health of our children.

This paper aims to identify users’ and interpreters’ perspectives on interpretation quality to determine the relationship between users’ needs and interpreters’ quality principles. Pöchhacker’s (2013) dimensions of interpreting and Angelelli’s (2000) communication model were thus taken as a reference. The study was carried out in seven conferences with simultaneous interpreting in Lima, Peru between August 2018 and June 2019. 10 interviews were conducted with interpreters and 86 questionnaires with two ranking-order scales of 11 linguistic and extra-linguistic criteria were administered to users and interpreters. The results show that the respondents agreed on the positive rating of correct pronunciation, fluency, and confident voice. However, they differed in the rating of sense consistency and use of correct terminology. It is revealed that Angelelli’s speech components and the real context had an impact on users’ and interpreters’ perspectives on quality.

Sensory and motor concepts represent two central categories of human cognition and are therefore, as studies from the field of cognitive linguistics have proven, firmly anchored in the lexical inventory of many languages. Perceptual expressions take on various pragmatic-discursive functions in language use, they often function as discourse markers, for example. The present article, however, deals with the persuasive function of sensorimotor concepts in political discourse. The aim of this purely qualitative study is to investigate translation strategies of the rhetorical potential of certain sensorimotor concepts, which results from the interplay of lexicon and morphosyntax, on the basis of the EUROPARL corpus from a contrastive-linguistic perspective. Spanish functions as the source language in our investigation, while the target languages are, on the one hand, the “Romance sister languages” French and Italian and, on the other hand, a typologically more distant language, namely German.

Katherine Philips, an outstanding English female poet of 17th century, has the great merit of being praised by Dryden and celebrated by Cowley and Jeremiah Taylor, as well as of having introduced a tradition of moral writing in English female literature, vindicated by other relevant female authors after her death. With no pretence for seeking neither praise nor intelectual privilege during her short life time, she was, however, praised by relevant writers and persons like the Earl of Orrery, the Earl of Roscomon, Abraham Cowley, James Tyrrell and Thomas Flatman. Beside all such words of praise, Philips was devoted, as a recognition for her work as a writer and translator, an anonymous poem, written, as it appears, by an Irish female poet, “Philo-Philippa”: to the Excellent Orinda. Based on such antecedents, the present paper tackles three main points: a) the female author herself, b) a brief outline of ‘praise literature’, c) the translation of the above cited poem.

Based on the corpus method, this article applies quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis to explore the weakening and strengthening tendencies in the translation of the adverb of degree “很” in six modern Chinese literary works. The result shows that: (1) the equivalence and weakening are more prominent than strengthening in general; (2) the weakening in reverse translations is more eminent than that in the direct ones. The motivations fall into two categories: linguistic factors and translator factor. The linguistic factors are mainly reflected in the ambiguity of the semantic intensity of the adverbs of degree, their semantic degeneration and the limitation of the expression rules of Spanish. The translator factor is mainly determined in the active intervention of the translator. We verify the differences between Chinese and Spanish languages, provide a theoretical guide for literary translation activities. This work is also a complement to the research on general characters of the Spanish translation language.