The major interest of practitioners for FRC dental restorations derives from the biological traits of this technique. The study concerned the biomechanical behaviour of polyethylene fiber reinforced composites. The experimental determination of the maximum pressure force that can be supported by a FRC fixed prosthetic restoration has also been targeted (Construct Premise Indirect). For this pur...

Accurate component alignment and joint line reproduction in total knee replacement (TKR) is crucial for successful clinical outcome. Advances in instrumentation and better understanding of the biomechanics can help to achieve better three dimensional alignments of TKR components and joint line restoration. We compared the accuracy of component alignment and joint line restoration with the use o...

The majority of patients with osteoarthritis present to orthopaedic surgeons seeking relief of pain and associated restoration of function. Although our understanding of the physiology of pain has improved greatly over the last 25 years there remain a number of unexplained pain-related observations in patients with osteoarthritis. The understanding of pain in osteoarthritis, its modulation and ...

Hemorrhage remains a leading cause of morbidity and death in both civilian and military trauma. Restoration of effective end-organ perfusion by stopping hemorrhage and restoring intravascular volume in such a way as to minimize acidosis, hypothermia, and coagulopathy, almost always requires the use of blood and/or blood-component therapy. The best method to manage life-threatening hemorrhage is...

Sacrifice of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in revision total knee replacement (TKR) is common, aiding in exposure, restoration of the flexion space, obtaining postoperative stability, and improving the clinical outcomes. Several PCL substituting implants are available including deep-dished, postand-cam, varus/valgus constrained, and hinge implants. Use of the least constrained implant p...

Innovations in material science and clinical techniques have expanded the number of treatment options available for nonvital anterior teeth. These options include the use of composite to fill the access opening with no additional treatment, crown placement, orthodontic extrusion, crown lengthening with or without orthodontic extrusion, dowel restorations with crown placement, and fixed bridge o...

This clinical report describes a treatment option for replacement of a missing mandibular anterior tooth using InCeram resin bonded fixed partial denture (RBFPD). The conventional approach for replacing mandibular incisors dictates the placement of either a conventional porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) bridge, Maryland bridge, or fiber-reinforced composite veneer bridge and several appearance-rel...

physiology of the pancreas graft, which is heterotopic and denervated, together with the immunosuppressive treatment and relatively impaired renal function might be responsible for minor differences in hormonal and metabolic patterns. Results comparable to ours have been described in non uraemic type I diabetic patients treated with artificial endocrine pancreas; continuous subcutaneous, intrav...

Text normalization is an indispensable stage for natural language processing of social media data with available NLP tools. We divide the normalization problem into 7 categories, namely; letter case transformation, replacement rules & lexicon lookup, proper noun detection, deasciification, vowel restoration, accent normalization and spelling correction. We propose a cascaded approach where each...