background and aims. this study observed occlusal contacts and their area on the teeth during lateral mandibular movements. the percentage of each occlusal pattern was determined. materials and methods. fifty subjects (male: 27, female: 23), aged 20-29 years, were included in the study. the criteria for selection were as follow: all subjects (i) were in their twenties; (ii) had normal occlusal ...

Objective To report the latest long-term outcome of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and to analyze the predictors of prognosis. Methods Subjects who were diagnosed with ALS between January 2005 and December 2009 at a single institute were followed up until death or up to December 2014. Data regarding age, sex, date of onset, date of diagnosis, presence of bulbar symptoms on onset, date of...

BACKGROUND Anterior knee pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints of young patients. We notice that some patients had normal femoral trochlear, medial and lateral patellar retinaculum, and special patellar morphology, which resulted in a series of symptoms in the flexion of the knee due to the impingement of the lateral articular surface of the patella with the femur. We firstl...

BACKGROUND Many patients show modulation of tinnitus by gaze, jaw or neck movements, reflecting abnormal sensorimotor integration, and interaction between various inputs. Postural control is based on multi-sensory integration (visual, vestibular, somatosensory, and oculomotor) and indeed there is now evidence that posture can also be influenced by sound. Perhaps tinnitus influences posture simi...

Females with Turner syndrome (TS), X chromosome monosomy, are characterized with palates that are narrow in width, normal in height and which are commonly associated with the presence of lateral palatine ridges. The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship of tongue position, palatal dimensions, and the presence of the lateral palatine ridges in TS subjects. The study also aimed ...

The present study was planned to investigate the efficiency of explicit teaching and adequacy of the L2 learners' exposure to L2 input in academic contexts in Iran. The case at hand was the acquisition of referential, quasi and expletive subject pronouns, as three different types of obligatory subjects in English. 96 Iranian EFL learners were selected from two universities in Isfahan. They were...