Can coffee prevent caries?

Can coffee improve image guidance?

Anecdotally, surgeons sometimes observe large errors when using image guidance in endonasal surgery. We hypothesize that one contributing factor is the possibility that operating room personnel might accidentally bump the optically tracked rigid body attached to the patient after registration has been performed. In this paper we explore the registration error at the skull base that can be induc...

Can Police Prevent Crime?

Can exercise prevent osteoporosis?

Commonly used definitions of osteoporosis rely upon the measurement of bone mass or bone mineral density and regard the difference between osteopenia and osteoporosis as gradual. An alternative definition has been proposed by Harold Frost, suggesting that osteopenia is the bone's physiological response to disuse. On the contrary, true osteoporoses imply the bone's inability to adapt to the load...

Can we Prevent Onychomycosis?

Onychomycosis is a fungal infection involving the nail unit. Distal lateral subungal onychomycosis (DLSO) is the most common subtype and usually results from untreated tinea pedis. Once fungus has invaded the nail unit, it can be a challenge to treat. Though onychomycosis has been historically viewed as a cosmetic concern, treating this disease is important due to potential complications, espec...

Can Coffee Improve Surgical Robot Accuracy?

Transnasal skull base and sinus surgery is often assisted via image guidance systems (e.g. the Brainlab Kolibri [1] – Fig. 1) which show the real-time locations of surgical instruments with respect to the 3D map provided by preoperative volumetric medical images. Image guidance systems often employ optical tracking to measure in real time the locations of both surgical instruments and the patie...