This study investigated the contribution of verbal working memory to the oral and written story production of deaf children. Participants were 29 severely to profoundly deaf children aged 8-13 years and 29 hearing controls, matched for grade level. The children narrated a picture story orally and in writing and performed a reading comprehension test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children...

processes of periodontal disease. Long term sensitization with oral microflora may cause tissue destruction by an intricate mechanism. In this report, the chronic sensitization with human oral bacteria in guinea pigs was analyzed and the antibody to oral bacteria was assayed. The presense of antibody to oral bacteria or to the patient's own gingiva extract in sera of subjects with periodontal d...

Staphylocoocci are minor members of normal oral flora, but they are always detected in the oral cavity. The biological activities of oral staphylococci , however, have not been noticed as much . We reported earlier on the production and the characterization of a bacteriocin of S. aureus isolated from saliva1) , which may contribute to the establishement of the oral ecosystem. Recently , we obse...

Hydrogen Sulfide Production by Oral Veillonella: Effect of pH and Lactate 1 2 Jumpei Washio, Yuko Shimada, Masakazu Yamada, Ryouichi Sakamaki, Nobuhiro 3 Takahashi # 4 5 Division of Oral Ecology and Biochemistry, Department of Oral Biology, Tohoku 6 University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan. 7 8 Running head: H2S production by Veillonella and pH/lactate 9 10 #Address correspondence...

Data collected routinely in dental care delivery systems could be used to inform research and policy. Projects in which data were collected with the help of general dental practitioners are outlined. In an EU-funded project, six partners collaborated to develop a methodology designed to establish links between characteristics of a health care system and health outcome, and to determine the char...

There is increasing evidence that, in addition to velopharyngeal coupling, lingual position may also change during production of phonemic nasal vowels. In order to investigate differences in oral articulation between European Portuguese (EP) nasal vowels and oral counterparts, imaging data (both static and real-time MRI) of several EP speakers (male and female) are used. Superimposition of outl...

Sensorimotor integration of auditory feedback for oral and manual force control was compared in 10 healthy participants. Based on the notion that auditory-to-motor integration is a more typical form of feedback for oral articulators given their role in speech and singing, it was predicted that oral force generation would be more accurate and less variable on an auditory-motor task compared to m...