purpose: to determine the efficacy of primary placement of a titanium sleeve and peg on hydroxyapatite (ha) orbital implants. methods: this retrospective non-comparative interventional case series was performed on 34 patients undergoing enucleation. a standard enucleation technique with primary ha implantation was performed, in which titanium sleeve and peg were placed primarily during the init...

A study is reported on the value of a modified KBM prosthesis compared with other types of prostheses. Recently a new type of below-knee prosthesis (the so called modified KBM prosthesis) was introduced in the Netherlands. This prosthesis is now frequently used as a substitute for more conventional types. A study was carried out on the value of this new prosthesis, compared with the more conven...

It is generally accepted that the development of erectile dysfunction is frequently attributed to both psychogenic factors as well as physiological alterations in neural, vascular, hormonal and endothelial function. Despite the advent of oral and intracavernosal erectile drugs, penile prosthesis implant remains a relevant and desired treatment option as many men became refractory to medical the...

Objective consonant evaluation using palatograph tracing and digital acoustic assessment methods are valuable tools for speech that can be used to track improvement in patients wearing a removable prosthesis. In this case report, we employed the psychoacoustic parameter – sharpness - compare quality of consonants cleft palate patient while old prosthesis, new prosthesis following palatogram gui...

STUDY DESIGN Biomechanical analysis of a novel prosthesis based on the physiological curvature of endplate was performed. OBJECTIVE To compare the biomechanical differences between a novel prosthesis based on the physiological curvature of the endplate and the Prestige LP prosthesis after cervical disc replacement (CDR). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Artificial disc prostheses have been widely...

in order to investigate the contribution of ear photosynthesis and cytokinin in determining grain sink size, a pot study was conducted during january to june 2005 in cereal glasshouse of faculty of agriculture of karaj, iran. experiment was conducted in a complete randomized design with a factorial arrangement of two factors, three replications and four pots in each plot. factors included culti...

background: pregnant patients with mechanical heart valves require anticoagulation. the risk of bleeding and embryopathy associated with oral anticoagulants must be weighed against the risk of valve thrombosis. methods: in this prospective study, undertaken between 1999 and 2009, 53 pregnancies (47 women with mechanical mitral valves; 29.8 ± 4.8 years old) were studied. patients were divided in...

introduction: even though modern technology progresses so rapidly, annals of otology are replete with so many challenging article, which often compare various types of prosthesis. since there has not been a prospective randomized clinical trial study which compares the hearing result of total ossicular replacement prosthesis made of titanium with omega connector and polycel in the literature, w...

background and aim: aging is accompanied with changes in cognitive capacities. in spite of advances in neural imaging technologies, there is not a straightforward method to observe cognitive functions. for assessing brain functions, researchers mainly use psychometric tests. the aim of this study was using consonant-vowel (cv) dichotic test as a non-invasive behavioral test for auditory attenti...

background the ability to follow the distribution and migration of biologically active cells in human is essential for the development of cell-based therapies and diagnostics. nuclear medicine imaging is widely applied in clinic as an attractive technique for in vivo wbc and stem cell tracking. the aim of this study was to evaluate prosthesis infection of a 51 years old man with previous histor...