The chairside-fabricated distal shoe appliance, with a stainless steel crown as the retainer, is an efficacious and cost-effective appliance for guiding the unerupted permanent first molar into position after premature loss or extraction of the second primary molar. The fabrication technique is illustrated in this case report and data is presented on the success rate of the appliance.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of treatment with a dental appliance or uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) on somnographic variables in patients with mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) followed up for 4 years, and compliance and complementary treatment. DESIGN Randomized study. SETTING Central Hospital, Västerås, Uppsala University, Sweden. PATIENTS Ninety-five male pat...

The aim of this study was to compare the ability of 46 isolates of Candida albicans to produce mycelial form with oral source in three groups of individuals including, removable appliance wearers, non-wearers and oral medicine patients. Saliva samples were obtained from all subjects along with a foam imprint from the fitting surface of the upper removable appliance in the case of patients. Colo...

The premature loss of primary teeth in mixed dentition commonly results space loss. spacelost is regained with the help an appliance referred to as a regainer. both removable and fixed type. This case report highlights usage KamatUday (Triple-banded regainer) compromised abutment teeth.

In clinical practice, oral appliances are used primarily for obstructive sleep apnea patients who do not respond to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. We hypothesized that an oral appliance is not inferior to CPAP in treating obstructive sleep apnea effectively. We randomly assigned 103 individuals to oral-appliance or CPAP therapy. Polysomnography after 8-12 weeks indicated th...

In energy conservation research, energy disaggregation becomes an increasingly critical task, which takes a whole home electricity signal and decomposes it into its component appliances. While householder’s daily energy usage behavior acts as one powerful cue for breaking down the entire household’s energy consumption, existing works rarely modeled it straightforwardly. Instead, they either ign...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze the displacement pattern and stress distribution during surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion (RME) with three different types of RME devices by constructing a finite element model. MATERIALS AND METHODS A finite element model is constructed from the computerized tomography scans. According to the type of RME device, 3 groups were simula...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Herbst and Twin-block appliances for established Class II Division I malocclusion. The study was a multicenter, randomized clinical trial carried out in orthodontic departments in the United Kingdom. A total of 215 patients (aged 11-14 years) were randomized to receive treatment with either the Herbst or the Twin-block appliance. Treatm...

This paper proposes a service-centric framework for the feature interaction problem in integrated services of the home network system (HNS). To formalize the HNS, we extensively use an object-oriented approach where each networked appliance (or the HNS environment) is modeled as an object consisting of properties and methods. Based on the model, we define two types of feature interactions: appl...