This clinical report describes the management of chronic, proliferative inflammatory epithelial and fibrous hyperplasia following loss of a mandibular implant-retained prosthesis. A classic surgical technique was used. The patient was referred to the oral surgeon for sialodochoplasty and sulcoplasty. With a combination of surgery and prosthodontic management with a conforming surgical stent, a ...

Hydrocortisone acetate (HA) is a synthetic corticosteroid and is usually employed in the treatment of classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which is a disorder of the adrenal cortex characterized by cortisol deficiency, with or without aldosterone deficiency, and androgen excess [1]. Because five enzymatic steps are involved in cortisol biosynthesis, there are five distinct CAH syndrome...

Patients with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) often require supraphysiologic doses of glucocorticoids to replace missing cortisol and reduce androgens. Current treatments aim control androgen-driven symptoms/impacts but can result in glucocorticoid-related side effects/complications. This study aimed understand the preferences adults CAH for benefits a potential new adjunctive ther...

In this paper, we address parallelisms between local and long-distance effects in segmental phonology, focusing on the similarity conditions that trigger them. We take the view that both local and long-distance harmony and disharmony are consequences of segmental correspondence—namely, unstable surface correspondence—as modeled in Agreement by Correspondence theory (henceforth ABC; e.g., Walker...

objective: the neck circumference (nc) as an index of obesity and upper-body subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution is recently used. this alternative screening tool is reliable, simple, quick and acceptable for assessment of overweight and obesity. the objectives of this study were to examine the correlation between nc measurement and diagnosis of general/visceral obesity and determining the...