OBJECTIVE To describe the technique and results of dorsal onlay lingual mucosal graft (LMG) urethroplasty for the definitive management of urethral strictures in women. PATIENTS AND METHODS In all, 15 women (mean age 42 years) with a history suggestive of urethral stricture who had undergone multiple urethral dilatations and/or urethrotomy were selected for dorsal onlay LMG urethroplasty afte...

OBJECTIVE To assess the success of buccal mucosal graft (BMG) urethroplasty by the dorsal onlay technique in long anterior urethral stricture (> 2 cm long) through the midline perineal incision. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 1998 to December 2003, 43 patients with long anterior urethral strictures were managed by dorsal onlay BMG urethroplasty. After voiding trial, they were followed up ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate intraoral complications of buccal mucosa grafts harvested from one cheek, and used in augmentation urethroplasty. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-one patients with anterior urethral strictures were included in our study. In twelve patients, dorsal onlay, in five patients ventral onlay and in four patients lateral onlay procedures were applied. Average length of buccal mucosa...

Objectives: To determine the marginal microleakage of Class II restorations made with different composite base materials and the static load-bearing capacity of direct composite onlay restorations. Methods: Class II cavities were prepared in 40 extracted molars. They were divided into five groups (n = 8/group) depending on composite base material used (everX Posterior, SDR, Tetric EvoFlow). Aft...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the long-term results of repairing long anterior urethral strictures with lingual mucosa onlay grafts. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study included 23 patients (mean age 36.3 years, range 21-62) who had a lingual mucosa onlay graft for managing a long anterior urethral stricture, and who were followed up for ⩾5 years. The mean length of the stricture was 4.6 cm. The Internat...

Occlusion therapy remains the mainstay of amblyopia treatment. Opinions, however, vary on the number of hours of daily patching that should be prescribed, ranging from as little as 1 or 2 hours to as much as 24 hours per day [2-4]. No study had provided conclusive data on the optimal number of patching hours, until The Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG) conducted a randomized clin...

Studies on the propagation of malware in mobile networks have revealed that the spread of malware can be highly inhomogeneous across different regions. Heterogeneous rates of contact can also be due to diverse platforms, utilization of contact lists by the malware, the clustered nature of the network, etc. In this paper, a general formal framework is proposed for leveraging such information abo...