The dental literature has reported vertical soft tissue changes that can occur with immediate implant placement, bone grafting, and provisional restoration ranging from a gain or loss of 1.0 mm. However, little is known of the effects of facial-palatal collapse of the ridge due to these clinical procedures. Based upon treatment modalities rendered, an ensuing contour change can occur with signi...

PURPOSE The anterior region is a challenge for most clinicians to achieve optimal esthetics with dental implants. The provisional crown is a key factor in the success of obtaining pink esthetics around restorations with single implants, by soft tissue and inter-proximal papilla shaping. Provisional abutments bring additional costs and make the treatment more expensive. Since one of the aims of ...

USPC ................... 385/24; 385/14; 385/16; 385/18; 385/25; 385/34; 385/47; 385/129 (58) Field of ClassiTication Search USPC ........... 385/14, 16—18, 24, 25, 31, 33, 34, 47, 385/129—132 See application file for complete search history. (60) Provisional application No. 61/390, 837, filed on Oct. 7, 2010, provisional application No. 61/390, 876, filed on Oct. 7, 2010, provisional applicati...

AIMS We investigated whether routine T-stenting reduces restenosis of the side branch as compared with provisional T-stenting in patients with de novo coronary bifurcation lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS Our randomized study assigned 101 patients with a coronary bifurcation lesion to routine T-stenting with sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) in both branches and 101 patients to provisional T-stentin...

After placing a transmucosal healing cap at secondstage surgery, a provisional restoration is desirable for esthetics, phonetics for development of a soft-tissue emergence profile around the implant, and to monitor the patient’s oral hygiene. Proussaefs described a procedure for fabricating a provisional prosthesis using a vacuum-formed template of a diagnostic waxing on prepared healing caps. ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether an information literacy programme for pre-registration nursing students at a UK higher education institution is effective in developing their skills and confidence: examines students' skill levels, factors affecting their confidence, and relationships between skills, confidence and demographic characteristics. METHODS Quantitative and qualitative techniques w...

The aim was to examine the feasibility of introducing an evidence based practice (EBP) cycle into a practice area within an undergraduate pre-registration programme. The cycle involved four meetings over five weeks on a cardiac intensive care unit. Three 3rd year adult branch nursing students participated with their mentors. A web page for the project was developed to support the process. Evalu...

BACKGROUND In the UK the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards to support learning and assessment in practice state that mentors are responsible and accountable for the assessment of pre-registration nursing students in practice. This study was undertaken to explore mentors' experience of assessing nursing students in practice post implementation of the NMC standards. METHOD Five focu...

We implemented a 3D co-registration technique based on mutual information (MI) including 2D image matching as a coarse pre-registration. The 2D coarse pre-registration was performed in the transverse, sagittal and coronal planes sequentially, and all six parameters were then optimized as fine registration. Normalized mutual information (NMI) was also examined as another entropy-based measure th...