INTRODUCTION The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the sealing ability of the readymade temporary filling and hand mixed materials by assessing coronal microleakage. MATERIALS AND METHODS Standardized access cavities were prepared in 80 intact human permanent premolar teeth. They were divided randomly into four experimental groups (n=20). The teeth were restored using one of the ...

OBJECTIVE To provide information and recommendations for women and their physicians when making decisions about the management of lymphedema related to breast cancer. OPTIONS Compression garments, pneumatic compression pumps, massage and physical therapies, other physical therapy modalities, pharmaceutical treatments. OUTCOMES Symptom control, quality of life, cosmetic results. EVIDENCE S...

A large body of evidence supports the idea that certain adult stem cells, particularly those of bone marrow origin, can engraft at alternative locations, particularly when the recipient organ is damaged. Under strong and positive selection pressure these cells will clonally expand/differentiate, making an important contribution to tissue replacement. Similarly, bone marrow derived cells can be ...

Although wearing clothing to protect one's skin from the harmful rays of the sun is not new practice, this practice is of recent increasing interest. This article discusses 1) three types of protection (sunburn, precancerous skin lesion development, and photoaging) that can be realized by covering the skin with fabric, 2) the process by which some garments come to be labeled with information ab...

The emerging field of wearable technology posits a challenge to existing frameworks of fashion theory. Its merging of fashion and technology invites us to more thoroughly reflect on the way in which garments influence the perceptivity of the body. Proposing the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty as a methodological and conceptual framework for the study of wearable techno...