BACKGROUND The Breast Implant Follow-up Study is a large, ongoing observational study of women who received Natrelle round silicone-filled or saline-filled breast implants. This analysis describes patient-reported outcomes in the cohort who underwent breast augmentation. METHODS Subjects prospectively completed two validated scales of the BREAST-Q (satisfaction with breasts and psychosocial w...

INTRODUCTION The present study compared the ability of the endodontic sealers AH Plus, Pulp Canal Sealer and EndoREZ to fill the root canal system in association with gutta-percha. METHODS Ninety mandibular premolars were accessed, prepared and divided into three groups of 30 teeth each, according to the sealer used to fill the canals: AH Plus, Pulp Canal Sealer and EndoREZ. All the teeth wer...

Our visual system can restore information missing within the portion of the retinal image corresponding to the blind spot where the optic nerve exits the eye. Previous studies of the properties of filled-in surfaces at the blind spot have found similarities and dissimilarities between filled-in and real surfaces and have therefore not provided a consistent view of the characteristics of the fil...

Purpose. The objective of this study was to document the number of controlled substance prescriptions filled by adolescents and young adult patients in the 2 years prior to presentation for opiate dependence treatment. Methods. Opiate-dependent youth (N = 125) presenting to our Medication-Assisted Treatment for Addiction program from January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2010 were identified via electron...

Theoretical models of speech production have hypothesized a relation between different types of disfluencies and the mechanisms responsible for them. Some disfluencies, such as filled pauses (e.g. ‘um’, ‘uh’) and repetitions (i.e. ‘the the’), are argued to arise from difficulty in planning, while cutoff disfluencies (e.g. ‘horiz-[ontal]’) are argued to arise from selfmonitoring. This distinctio...

Let G be a finite group and S a subset of G. Then S is product-free if S ∩ SS = ∅, and complete if G∗ ⊆ S ∪ SS. A product-free set is locally maximal if it is not contained in a strictly larger product-free set. If S is product-free and complete then S is locally maximal, but the converse does not necessarily hold. Street and Whitehead [11] defined a group G as filled if every locally maximal p...

OBJECTIVE Because free sample of prescription medications have been shown to influence prescribing habits of physicians, we sought to discern if promotional efforts of a retail pharmacy influenced prescriptions filled in our county after a free antibiotic program was initiated. METHODS Retrospective analysis of prescription antibiotics filled throughout the county was performed. Prescriptions...

As the premier stable-beam user facility in the USA, ATLAS is currently being upgraded to provide high intensity (>1 pμA) stable beams. The combination of new highefficiency detectors and intense beams will move ATLAS to the forefront as a world research center for studying exotic nuclei, such as super-heavy nuclei, nuclei at or near the proton drip line, proton-rich nuclei near 100 Sn and neut...