Background and Aim: Implant-supported overdentures are a treatment option for edentulous patients. One of the important factors in determining the prognosis of overdenture treatment is to control the distribution of stress in the implant-bone and attachment complex. This study assessed the effect of implant abutment height difference on stress distribution in mandibular overdentures. Materials...

accurate measurements of physical characteristics of bone are essential for diagnosis, assessment of change following treatment, and therefore, indirectly, for evaluation of new forms of therapy. this is particularly true of osteoporosis and aging skeleton, in which fractures occur easily. methods: in this study an ultrasonic system was set-up and calibrated on plexiglas tubes of variable thick...

BACKGROUND: Dental disease, trauma and maxillofacial surgeries can cause alveolar bone defects. Among different kinds of treatment, autogenous bone grafts is accepted as a golden standard. On the other hand, because of limitation of treatment with autogenous bone grafts, osteogenic cells derived from stem cells are suggested. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to compare the mean density of ...

Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by low bone mass, deterioration of tissue, and disruption microarchitecture: it can lead to compromised strength increased risk fractures. Secondary osteoporosis mostly glucocorticoid-induced (GIOP). According traditional Chinese medicine, the kidney influences bone, loss are associated with liver inadequacies. We tested Allolobophora caliginosa extract (...

Bone scan of an 18-year-old male who initially presented with chronic left knee pain showed increased radiotracer uptake in the left knee indicative of osteoarthritis. For the incidental finding of diffusely intense uptake involving the left hemipelvis, Paget’s disease was favored over osteosarcoma and Ewing’s sarcoma. CT scan without IV contrast showed cortical and trabecular thickening of the...

Bone changes its structural and physical properties during maturation. In order to validate ultrasound measurements with regard to their usefulness in assessing cortical bone maturation, speed of sound (SOS) data were compared with mechanical properties (elastic modulus, bending strength, and cortical surface hardness), density and water content. Thirty pig mandibles were selected from three di...

Density is a salient property of bone and plays a crucial role in determining the mechanical properties of both its cancellous and cortical structural forms. Density is defined in a number of ways at either the bone tissue (D(app), apparent) or the bone material level (D(mat), material). The concept of density is relatively simple, but measuring it in the context of bone is a complex issue. The...

PURPOSE Microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) is increasingly used as a nondestructive alternative to ashing for measuring bone mineral content. Phantoms are utilized to calibrate the measured x-ray attenuation to discrete levels of mineral density, typically including levels up to 1000 mg HA/cm3, which encompasses levels of bone mineral density (BMD) observed in trabecular bone. However, levels ...

Background: Recent clinical studies of treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) with autologous adult stem cells led us to compare effect of intravenous injection of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSC) and bone marrow hematopoietic stem cell mobilization, induced by granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), in rats with a cortical compact device. Methods: Forty adult male Wistar rats w...