PURPOSE The aim of this review was to analyze the evaluation criteria on mandibular implant overdentures through a systematic review and suggest standardized evaluation criteria. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic literature search was conducted by PubMed search strategy and hand-searching of relevant journals from included studies considering inclusion and exclusion criteria. Randomized clin...

Objective: To investigate the influence of epilepsy seizure on the fracture risk through a retrospective literature review. Methods: Published studies August 1, 2015 were acquired from the PubMed, EMBASE, Springer Link, Ovid using the key words “epilepsy” and “fracture”. A total of 828 papers were picked up, which were further screened to select the most relevant ones. Three selection criteria ...

A frailty assessment tool was designed, based on evidence from current studies. The tool has fi ve criteria. These include age (75 and over), fall with any injury or fracture (excluding fracture of the neck of the femur), dementia or delirium, care home residence, and reduced or lack of mobility over 24 hours. If any acute elderly inpatient meets at least three of these fi ve criteria, this pat...

We find that the classical failure criteria, i.e., maximum normal stress criterion, Tresca criterion, Mohr-Coulomb criterion, and von Mises criterion, cannot satisfactorily explain the tensile fracture behavior of the bulk metallic glass (BMG) materials. For a better description, we propose an ellipse criterion as a new failure criterion to unify the four classical criteria above and apply it t...

OBJECTIVES Hospital discharge data (HDD) in many health systems do not capture the date of injury (DOI); the absence of this date hinders researchers' ability to distinguish repeat from incident injury admissions. Various approaches using somewhat arbitrary criteria have been explored to increase the accuracy of incident injury identification. However, these approaches have not been validated a...