Methods Thirty scoliotic girls, aged 14.4 ± 1.5 years, single thoracic scoliosis (Lenke 1), thoracic Cobb 54.1 ± 24.7° , and 30 healthy volunteers matched for sex and age (14.7 ± 1.8 years) were examined with Martin anthropometric caliper. The length of the long and the short horizontal axes of the thorax were measured at the level of xiphoid process (upper index) and of lowest costal arch (low...

Styloid process a slender pointed piece of bone projects downwards from the inferior surface of temporal bone and serves as an anchor point for muscles and ligaments. Elongated styloid process bilaterally was found in a dry human skull during a routine osteology class for undergraduate students. The length of styloid process on left side was 5.5 cm and on right side was 6 cm. The styloid proces...

BACKGROUND Walking mechanics are influenced by body morphology. Foot arch height is one aspect of body morphology central to walking. However, generalizations about the relationship between arch height and walking are limited due to previous methodologies used for measuring the arch and the populations that have been studied. To gain the knowledge needed to support healthy gait in children and ...

BACKGROUND One of the major hurdles in clinical prosthodontics has been the selection and replacement of maxillary anterior teeth in the absence of pre-extraction records. The aim of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between intraoral and extraoral facial measurements that could assist dental practitioners in selecting esthetically appropriate maxillary anterior teeth in the ...

conclusions according to our results, these clinical measurements would provide valid information regarding the structure of the medial longitudinal arch. patients & methods clinical measurements of arch index (ai) and foot posture index (fpi) were performed on 40 subjects (18 boys and 22 girls), aged from 5 to 7 years referred to adabian rehabilitation center, kermanshah, iran. the study was c...

For optimization of real-world arch dams, it is unavoidable to consider two or more conflicting objectives. This paper employs two multi-objective differential evolution algorithms (MoDE) in combination of a parallel working MATLAB-APDL code to obtain a set of Pareto solutions for optimal shape of arch dams. Full dam-reservoir interaction subjected to seismic loading is considered. A benchmark ...

conclusions it seems that plantar changes have insignificant effect on static and dynamic indices evaluated by the biodex balance system. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the relation between these structural characteristics and balance indices. patients and methods the study population was 100 male and female students from semnan university of medical sciences, semnan, iran. to e...

T he purpose of this article is twofold: First, it will demonstrate the clinical application of precise control of t,he magnitude, direction, and duration of extraoral force and, second, cases will be presented to demonstrate how control of these three mechanical variables dramatically increases the efficiency and effectiveness of extraoral force in the treatment of malocclusion. The subject wi...