PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of the Bluegrass appliance in ceasing the thumb-sucking habit. METHODS Patient records of 41 subjects, ages 4 to 20 years of age, who attended the University of Kentucky Pediatric Dental Clinic for the treatment of a thumb-sucking habit with the Bluegrass appliance, were reviewed. Of the 41 subjects, 30 were included in the study. Data...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to measure the muscle activities of the trunk muscles and upper limb muscles during maximum isometric contraction when temporomandibular joint alignment was achieved with a mandibular orthopedic repositioning appliance in order provide basic data on the effects of mandibular orthopedic repositioning appliance on the entire body. [Subjects] The present stu...

Earnings Median annual earnings, including commission, of home appliance repairers were $28,860 in 2000. The middle 50 percent earned between $21,840 and $38,040 a year. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $17,300, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $45,750 a year. Median annual earnings in the two industries employing the largest numbers of home appliance repairers in 2000 were $27...

The history of the functional appliance can be traced back to 1879, when Norman Kingsley introduced the "bite-jumping" appliance. In the early 1900s, parallel development began in the United States and Europe in fixed and functional techniques, respectively, but the Atlantic Ocean was a geographic barrier that restricted the sharing of knowledge and experience in these philosophies. The only ex...

Let K denote a field and let V denote a vector space over K with finite positive dimension. We consider a pair of linear transformations A : V → V and A∗ : V → V that satisfy the following conditions: (i) each of A,A∗ is diagonalizable; (ii) there exists an ordering {Vi} d i=0 of the eigenspaces of A such that A ∗Vi ⊆ Vi−1+Vi+Vi+1 for 0 ≤ i ≤ d, where V−1 = 0 and Vd+1 = 0; (iii) there exists an...

and Applied Analysis 3 Remark 5. Assumption (13) holds if the system has a unique solution. For brevity, we rewrite system (2)∼(5) in the vector form by introducing W(x, t) = (u(x, t), n(x, t)) and Y(x, t) = (a(x, t), b(x, t)). We denote by E 0 = H 2 ⋂H 1 0 (Ω) × H 1 0 (Ω) the space of vector functionsW(x, t) = (u(x, t), n(x, t)) with norm E0 = {‖u‖ 2 H 2 + ‖n‖ 2 H 1} 1/2 . (14) Similarly, we d...

The chairside-fabricated distal shoe appliance, with a stainless steel crown as the retainer, is an efficacious and cost-effective appliance for guiding the unerupted permanent first molar into position after premature loss or extraction of the second primary molar. The fabrication technique is illustrated in this case report and data is presented on the success rate of the appliance.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of treatment with a dental appliance or uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) on somnographic variables in patients with mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) followed up for 4 years, and compliance and complementary treatment. DESIGN Randomized study. SETTING Central Hospital, Västerås, Uppsala University, Sweden. PATIENTS Ninety-five male pat...

The aim of this study was to compare the ability of 46 isolates of Candida albicans to produce mycelial form with oral source in three groups of individuals including, removable appliance wearers, non-wearers and oral medicine patients. Saliva samples were obtained from all subjects along with a foam imprint from the fitting surface of the upper removable appliance in the case of patients. Colo...