The popular concept of a disabled person is of someone who has lost a limb or who is physically deformed in some obvious way. This concept is largely based on the appreciation of structural damage; severity is considered to be dependent on the extent of the damage and criteria based on this approach govern the assessment and award of the disability pensions at present available. However, disabi...

Understanding of standardized uptake value (SUV) of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) depends on the background accumulations of glucose because the SUV often varies the status of patients. The purpose of this study was to develop a new method for quantitative analysis of SUV of FDG-PET scan images. The method included an anatomical standardization and a sta...

abstract : before initiating any endodontic therapy, probability of extra canals should be considered. the incidence of three canals in mandibular second premolar has been reported to be 0.46-0.5%. the present report describes nonsurgical endodontic treatment of three mandibular second premolars with three canals. in these cases, three orifices were located in mesiobuccal, distobuccal and lingu...

by increasing number of vessels. salivary gland tumors are uncommon and their overall incidence is about 3 per 100000 per year. salivary gland hemangioma makes up 1 % of all salivary gland tumors. trismus resulting from parotid hemangioma is so rare. the patient was a 6-month-old boy with a huge lesion in his right parotid who referred to shahid sadoughi hospital of yazd, iran. the lesion appea...

accurately localizing the mental foramen and mandibular canal is important when administering local anesthesia and performing surgery; therefore, knowing the normal range of the possible locations is essential. our purpose was to assess the location of the mental foramen and mandibular canal in an iranian population using panoramic radiography.standard panoramic radiographies were performed. th...