A survey was conducted of 423 crown margins that were divided into 355 subgingival margins and 68 supragingival margins. The plaque index, gingival bleeding, and recession surrounding the artificial crown were recorded and compared to the unprepared contralateral tooth. Gingival tissues tended to bleed 2.42 times more frequently with subgingival margins and have a 2.65 times higher chance of gi...

AGE-ASSOCIATED PERIODONTAL BONE LOSS IN NORMAL AND TLR2OR MYD88-DEFICIENT MICE Paul A. Ciero November 21,2011 Age-related alterations in innate immunity are poorly understood. The identification of those mechanisms, which are dysfunctional in old age, will shed light on potential therapeutic strategies for chronic inflammatory diseases prevalent in the elderly, such as periodontitis. Mice natur...

Issues related to the control of seizures and bleeding, as well as behavioral management due to mental retardation, render dental treatment less accessible or impossible for patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS). A 41-year-old man with SWS visited a dental clinic for rehabilitation of missing dentition. A bilateral port-wine facial nevus and intraoral hemangiomatous swollen lesion of the le...

Gingival enlargements are quite common and may be either inflammatory, noninflammatory, or a combination of both. Gingival hyperplasia is a bizarre condition causing esthetic, functional, psychological, and masticatory disturbances of the oral cavity. Causes of gingival enlargement can be due to plaque accumulation, due to poor oral hygiene, inadequate nutrition, or systemic hormonal stimulatio...

Let $G$ be a finitely generated abelian group and $M$ be a $G$-graded $A$-module. In general, $G$-associated prime ideals to $M$ may not exist. In this paper, we introduce the concept of $G$-attached prime ideals to $M$ as a generalization of $G$-associated prime ideals which gives a connection between certain $G$-prime ideals and $G$-graded modules over a (not necessarily $G$-graded Noetherian...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Building on previous conceptual and empirical work, the purpose of this investigation was to examine place attachment’s effect on several variables purportedly related to the construct. The place attachment construct has been used by recreation researchers and managers to explain a variety of leisure behaviors (e.g., recreationists’ setting preferences, management preferences...

be the semisimple Galois representation associated to f by Deligne and Serre; here S is any finite set of primes containing all primes dividing N and GQ,S∪{l} is the Galois group of the maximal extension of Q unramified outside S ∪{l}. The representation ρ̄f,λ is absolutely irreducible for almost all λ; for such λ let R S f,λ denote the universal deformation ring parameterizing lifts of ρ̄f,λ (up...