PURPOSE Much attention has been focused on the immediate or early loading of implants with or without splinting. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contact rate between bones and implants, with or without splinting. MATERIALS AND METHODS Under general anesthesia, an 8-mm-deep cavity for a dental implant was drilled in the mandibular ridge of dogs where teeth had been extracted 4 mo...

Objectives: Flexion contracture in fingers of hands is a complication of Dupuytren's contracture and cannot be stopped by the progressive course. The aim of this study was to review the effect of splinting in corrective of contracture after Dupuytren's contracture surgery. Methods: To carry out this research, a kind of systematic evidence-based review process (Duffy 2005) was used. For data...

Background and Aim: Making impression of several implants simultaneously for fabrication of dental prosthesis is challenging for many clinicians. Splinting can be performed for highly accurate impression making and better adaptation of prostheses. This study aimed to assess the effect of Impla and Duralay acrylic resin splinting materials on dimensional changes of direct implant impressions. ...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Poor endoscope operability remains a significant challenge during colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). We retrospectively evaluated the experience and clinical usefulness of a new single-use splinting tube in deep colonic ESD in the setting of poor scope operability. PATIENTS AND METHODS Among 691 patients with colorectal tumors treated with ESD at Hiro...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of dimensional stability of splinting material on the accuracy of master casts. MATERIALS AND METHODS A stainless steel metal model with 6 implants embedded was used as a master model. Implant level impressions were made after square impression copings were splinted using 5 different techniques as follows. (1) Splinted with autopolymeri...

Splinting Poststroke: the Jury Is Still Out To the Editor: In the article abstract by Lannin et al,1 the authors claim “the practice of routine splinting soon after stroke should be discontinued.” Their presented data does not show this. The stated aim was to determine the effect of splinting “on contracture in the wrist and long finger flexor muscles”1 without defining ‘contracture’. Participa...

PURPOSE This in vitro study evaluated the accuracy of multiple-unit dental implant casts obtained from splinted or nonsplinted direct impression techniques using various splinting materials by comparing the casts to the reference models. The effect of two different impression materials on the accuracy of the implant casts was also evaluated for abutment-level impressions. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

Splinting of the wrist after carpal tunnel release (CTR) has been practised by many surgeons especially in North America. The main reason was to prevent possible adverse events of bowstringing of flexor tendons and the median nerve, pillar pain, entrapment of the median nerve in scar tissue and wound dehiscence. Studies on the effect of splinting after standard CTR have had dismal results. The ...