introduction: solar lentigines are among commonest cosmetic problems. there are many topical therapies suggested to treat these lesions including cryotherapy, chemical peeling with tri chloro acetic acid (tca) and laser therapy with q-switched lasers as well as long pulsed lasers. considering possible treatment side effects (pih, scar) with cryotherapy and peeling in iranian patients (darker sk...

The average power of solid-state and fiber lasers has considerably increased during the last ten years. The 10 kW power is not record-breaking any longer, and a topical problem nowadays is to create lasers with a power of 100 kW. Therefore, the study of thermal effects caused by absorption of laser radiation in the bulk of optical elements becomes ever more important. The Faraday isolator (FI) ...

background & aim: aphids are of serious pests and vectors of multitude of viral diseases of field crops, vegetables, ‎and greenhouse crops. they have displayed a remarkable ability to establish resistance to ‎almost every insecticide with which it has been treated. to reduce the damage of these pests ‎and dependence on the sometimes unwise use of synthetic pesticides in crop and vegetable ‎...

conclusions the results of this study show that the beneficial effect of lactobacillus casei is related to its metabolites. a formulated gel shows a significant antidermatophytosis activity compared to clotrimazole. results the results showed the same effect of the probiotic extract against 4 pathogens; however, the greatest average zone of inhibition was measured 34 mm against t. rubrum. the m...

introduction pharmacologic treatment of radicular pain with oral medications is limited by adverse effects and concern for dependence. while topical formulations have been explored in pain research, there is no published literature evaluating the efficacy in radicular pain. we present the first three cases of radicular pain successfully treated with a topical formulation of diclofenac, ibuprofe...

keloids are aesthetically disfiguring and severely disabling. the optimal treatment remains undefined. this clinical study, evaluate the efficacy and side effects of combined topical silicone and 5-fluorouracil on the prevention of keloids. in this double blind randomized clinical trial, fifty patients with keloids were randomly allocated in two groups. the control group were treated by periles...

Certain elements of a patient's diet may be associated with dentin hypersensitivity. The intent of this study was to evaluate the degree of removal of the smear layer from dentin surfaces by various fruit juices. A smear layer was created on extracted human teeth by manual scaling. The roots were reduced and distributed into 8 experimental groups. Distilled water was the negative control. The j...

conclusions although the results of this study showed superiority of application of emla cream as a topical anesthetic for pain relief of blood sampling, both lidocaine 5% and benzocaine 5% offer considerable efficacy in pain relief of venipuncture. results at the end of study, the emla products (a and b) caused a significant decrease in pain (p < 0.05) in comparison with the products c (lidoca...

in order to improve local therapeutic techniques for the massively burnt patients and to minimize the pain associated with dressing change, the concept of topical film was utilized to formulate a topical antimicrobial spray. the commonly used topical antimicrobial silver sulfadiazine spray was formulated as a new drug delivery system. the release of therapeutic agents in vitro from medicated sp...