Dr. (Mrs.) Chandralekha .B, MDS Former Head of the Department of Orthodontics, Government Dental College & Hospital, Fort, Bangalore 560 001. Ph: 09448-091115 The present study investigated the effect of masseter muscle thickness on maxillary dental arch width and growth pattern of face. Sample comprised of 40 patients, (20 females, 20 males) between 18 to 23 years. They were subdivided accordi...

Lip bumper treatment has been shown to successfully increase arch width, procline the incisors, and distalize molars. However, few studies have been performed showing the long-term stability of lip bumper treatment. In this study, mandibular casts taken by a single practitioner from 51 patients treated with lip bumpers without rapid palatal expansion were analyzed at pretreatment, post-lip bump...

The embryonic period is characterized by organogenesis and accompanying dynamic changes in external features. The measurement of human embryos has been limited to whole body dimensions, such as crown-rump length. More detailed measurements would add quantitative information about these characteristic events and provide a better understanding of normal and abnormal embryonic development. In the ...

OBJECTIVE We developed a novel method using anatomic markers along the thoracic aorta to accurately quantify longitudinal and circumferential cyclic strain in nondiseased thoracic aortas during the cardiac cycle and to compute age-related changes of the human thoracic aorta. METHODS Changes in thoracic aorta cyclic strains were quantified using cardiac-gated computed tomography image data of ...

The foot is an important element of the locomotor apparatus and performs a number functions in our body. Abnormalities its shape can affect everyday functioning. Therefore, it worth paying attention to proper development feet children. aim study was assess dynamics changes selected parameters younger children school age. involved 70 observations were conducted twice same children, aged 5 9 year...

Sanguinivorous Naobranchia variabilis prefer the first gill arch, external hemibranch and anterior end of the gill arch. The smallest N. variabilis observed attached to fish by a thin filament which connects fused tips of second maxillae to a 'plug' inserted into the gill tissue. Second maxillae enlarge to encircle and increasingly compress the gill filament, which results in a thin layer of ep...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine how some physical characteristics can be used to predict the occurrence of impacted mandibular third molars. BACKGROUND While the concept of prophylactic removal of the asymptomatic erupting or impacted mandibular third molar has generated much controversy over the years, new theories of therapeutic surgical removal of the erupting tooth and therapeu...

Objective: Apply the different methods available in literature to classify a sample of podography and evaluate level agreement between results. Methods: Six quantitative one qualitative method foot type from were recorded on 30 feet. The indexes calculated, was explored. Results: Correlation values above r = 0.84 except for test arch footprint angle. highest correlation found truncated index (0...

It is challenging to assure safe and effective gas mining due the surrounding soft coal rock roads in deep high mines being extremely loose broken. One of ways arrange pre-stressed anchors a certain area roadway rocks form compression arch with joint action rocks, but lack in-depth systematic research on formation mechanism arch, effect difficult give full play. The typical microstructure was o...

The axillary arch is a muscle slip varying from 7 to 10 cm in length and 5 to 15 mm in breadth. It occasionally arises from the edge of the latissimus dorsi, at about the middle of the posterior fold of the axilla and crosses the axilla in front of the axillary vessels and nerves to join the under-surface of the tendon of the pectoralis major, the coracobrachialis, or the fascia over the biceps...