background: nasal continuous positive airway pressure (ncpap) is an effective method of ventilation in newborns with respiratory distress syndrome (rds). using an appropriate nasal skin care protocol is identical to prevention or reduction of nasal skin breakdown in those who receive ncpap. this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an evidence-based clinical care protocol on nasal sk...

Prosthodontic rehabilitation for an acquired maxillary defect begins immediately at the time of surgical resection. Abrupt alteration of physiologic functions such as speech, mastication, deglutition, and salivary control associated with ablative surgery requires timely prosthetic intervention. Prosthetic rehabilitation begins with a surgical obturator, which is inserted at the time of surgery ...

and closed hollow obturators, inflatable obturators and 2-piece 3 hollow obturator prosthesis. This clinical series describes the fabrication of hollow definite obturators utilizing mechanical The term maxillectomy is used by maxillofacial surgeons to means and anatomical structures of patients left at the surgical describe partial or total removal of the maxillae in patients site for its reten...

BACKGROUND Facial prostheses are intended to provide a non-operative rehabilitation for patients with acquired facial defects. By improving aesthetics and quality of life (QOL), this treatment involves reintegration of the patient into family and social life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of QOL in adult patients with facial prostheses and to compare this perception with ...

conclusion of the asymptomatic patients investigated, 58% showed focal enhanced periprosthetic glucose metabolism. this finding should be taken into consideration as a more probable unspecific metabolic pattern for correct interpretation of 18f-fdg-pet studies in patients with suspected septic loosening of the hip prosthesis. results fourteen hip prostheses in 12 patients were visually analyzed...

the effect of inter-implant distance on retention and resistance of implant-tissue-supported overdentures is lacking in the literature. an in vitro study was performed to evaluate this effect for mandibular implant-tissue-supported overdentures retained by two ball attachments.an acrylic cast of an edentulous mandible was fabricated. three pairs of implants were symmetrically placed at both sid...

great prosthesis for reinforcement of visceral sac is a guranteed operation for unilateral or bilateral inguinal hernias in otil patients or recurrent cases. the greatest use of this technique is in the patients who are at specially high risk for recurrence. we successfully accomplished this technique in 70 cases in our hospital while the patients were countiniously under our close inspection f...