Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com to excessive occlusal wear [4]. Excessive wear of anterior dental elements is a fact of high influence on the smile’s esthetics and harmony [3-5]. As cases become more complex, aspects related to the patient’s occlusion re-establishment must be observed, including the recovery of the occlusal vertical dimension (OVD), which is defined as the vertica...

Spatial-numerical associations (small numbers-left/lower space and large numbers-right/upper space) are regularly found in elementary number processing. Recently, the interest in this phenomenon has been extended from elementary number processing to mental arithmetic. Many studies have demonstrated horizontal spatial-arithmetic associations, i.e., solving addition or subtraction problems cause ...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the clinical considerations related to increasing the occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) when restoring a patient's dentition. Thorough extraoral and intraoral evaluations are mandatory to assess the suitability of increasing OVD. In the literature, multiple techniques have been proposed to quantify OVD loss. However, the techniques lack consistency and ...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2014 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 2,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 530–540. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Verticality, and related figures such as the tower, stack, or mountain, are commonly used as spatial metaphors to express the hierarchy that we apply to information and knowledge. But ...

If the concept of mesial movement of molars to reduce the "wedge effect" and decrease facial vertical dimension (FVD) is valid, it is important to investigate the effect of first (P1) and second premolar (P2) extraction on FVD. This study compares the mesial movement of molars and changes in FVD between P1 and P2 extraction groups in Class I malocclusion with a hyperdivergent facial type. We co...

INTRODUCTION The advent of acellular dermis-based tissue expander breast reconstruction has placed an increased emphasis on optimizing intraoperative volume. Because skin preservation is a critical determinant of intraoperative volume expansion, a mathematical model was developed to capture the influence of incision dimension on subsequent tissue expander volumes. METHODS A mathematical equat...

The aim of this investigation was to establish precise indicators of the vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) which could be used as objective parameters in prosthodontic treatment providing exact control of the reconstructed vertical dimension of occlusion, early detection of errors and correction of the vertical dimension of occlusion during complete denture manufacturing. A total of 60 late...

T HE superlative for logical dental reasoning during the first half of the present century might be awarded to Dr. John Hunter for his views on the theory of dental foci of infections, and to Dr. Gysi a close second for his studies of the geometric movements of the mandible. However, it is not the intention of this paper to dwell on the work of either of these men, but to discuss in part a prac...

[1] The small footprint ( 70 m) and 172 m alongtrack spacing of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) provides unprecedented horizontal resolution for a satellite altimeter. This enables ICESat to map many previously unresolved features on ice shelves, such as crevasses, rifts, grounding zones and ice fronts. We present examples of ...

The patients among the lower socioeconomic groups especially in rural areas may become edentulous at relatively earlier ages, hence requiring prosthesis to carry out oral functions.1 The long term edentulous patients also presented with changes in soft tissues profile as well as loss of vertical dimension.2 The basic objectives of complete denture prosthodontics are the restoration of facial ap...