PURPOSE The objective of this retrospective study was to examine whether patients who take medications containing bisphosphonates (BPs) are at greater risk of bone graft and implant failure than other patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study involved the examination of 42 patients (101 implants) who had taken medications containing BPs prior to surgeries involving oral bone grafting or endos...

One of the tasks of the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) is the promotion of Croatian science. Although it started as a regional journal, the CMJ developed through the years and began to play a global role, helping Croatian scientists to present their results to the international biomedical community. The CMJ acts as a window to the world for the Croatian medical professionals, and the articles p...

DISCLOSURES There were no conflicts of interest, and the researchers did not receive any form of sponsorship for the study. ABSTRACT Background: The ability to apply a skin graft snugly to the bed, and limit shearing forces, goes a long way in determining outcome. It is often a challenge achieving this over highly contoured wounds and wounds located on highly mobile regions of the body, where t...

INTRODUCTION External volume expansion (EVE) is one method, which has been utilised for increasing the survival of adipose tissue grafts. EVE releases positive pressure from the graft and also induces intense levels of edema that decreases diffusion of metabolites essential for graft survival initially. The ideal timing of external volume expansion in relation to the injection of the fat to fac...

Background: Mc Indoe vaginoplasty is one of the mostly performed surgical interventions in Mullerian agenesis. Case presentations: We present our experience on the use of a new designed vaginal stent that was coated with silicone in two mullerian agenesis cases who had Mc Indoe vaginoplasty. Both full thickness and splitt thickness skin graft were used with the stent. No graft loss or hyperthro...

Language is widely assumed to be a well designed tool for reliably communicating propositional information between people. This suggests that its users should be sensitive to failures of communication, such as utterances that are blatantly incoherent with respect to an ongoing conversation. We present experimental work suggesting that, in fact, people are surprisingly tolerant of conversational...

1 Aim of This research is a Strategic analysis of seaports using multiple-criteria decision-making methods. At first, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of Iranian seaports has been extracted from literature. Then, with respect to the importance concluded from LIKRET questionnaire distributed between experts (taking the views of the experts and specialist), five high importanc...

vegetative propagation of persian walnut encounters a major problem in iran growing conditions. this experiment was carried out to study the physiological effects of rootstock as regards herbaceousness or woodiness, and with respect to the presence of leaf on it or not on minigrafting success. throughout the study, 1.5-2.5 cm length persian walnut scions were minigrafted on herbaceous vs. softw...