BACKGROUND A few studies have investigated the effect of the activation mode of adhesive systems on bond strength of fiber posts to root canal dentin. This study investigated the push-out bond strengths of a glass fiber post to different root canal regions with the use of two adhesives with light- and dual-cure polymerization modes. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this in vitro study, 40 maxillary c...

th dentistry. Early 20 century sawintroduction of various newer materials like stainless steel, cobalt chromium alloys, acrylic resins(heat cure and self-cure) as DB materials.However, acrylic resin seems to be a material, which got more attention because it fulfils many of the desired properties like ease of processing, favourable working characteristics, accurate fit, stability in oral enviro...

BACKGROUND The patient was aged 34 when he consulted a dermatologist in Vancouver BC with onychomycosis affecting the right great toenail. CASE PRESENTATION Trichophyton rubrum was cultured from nail clippings. Griseofulvin was taken for 6 months, resulting in clinical and mycological cure. Over the next 27 years there were multiple relapses. Each course of treatment with oral terbinafine (fo...

PURPOSE A new light curing urethane dimethacrylate and a cold curing resin with simpler and faster laboratory procedures may have even improved flexural properties. This study investigated the 3-point flexural strengths and flexural moduli of two alternate base materials. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cold curing resin (Weropress) and a light curing urethane dimethacrylate base material (Eclipse). ...

Self-medication involves individuals or their carers administering a medical drug of their own choice for symptomatic relief and in the hope of a "cure", without seeking professional medical advice.The aim of this descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at the Dermatology Department of the Taubaté University Hospital was to identify the occurrence of self-medication for the topical treatmen...

BACKGROUND Rhesus macaques are unusual among schistosome hosts, self-curing from an established infection and thereafter manifesting solid immunity against a challenge, an ideal model for vaccine development. Previously, the immunological basis of self-cure was confirmed; surviving worms had ceased feeding but how immunological pressure achieved this was unclear. The schistosome esophagus is no...

There is a crisis of readership for work in our field, as in many other academic disciplines. One of its causes is a pathological form of the professionalism that we so greatly value. "Hyperprofessionalism" is a disease whose symptoms include self-referentiality, self-absorption, and a narrowing of intellectual focus. This essay describes some features and consequences of hyperprofessionalism i...

BACKGROUND Many chronic pain patients (CPPs) cannot be cured of their pain, but can learn to manage it. This has led to research on pain "acceptance" which is defined as a behavior pattern with awareness of pain but not directed at changing pain. OBJECTIVE CPPs who have accepted their pain generally acknowledge that a cure is unlikely. Time with pain may be necessary to reach such an acknowle...