vital pulp therapy (vpt) is the preferred conservative treatment for preservation of symptomatic pulps in immature permanent teeth. the present case report summarizes vpt of an immature permanent molar with irreversible pulpitis associated with apical periodontitis in a 9-year-old boy. cervical pulpotomy was performed and radicular pulp stump were covered with calcium-enriched mixture (cem) cem...

vital pulp therapy (vpt) of permanent mature teeth is continuously ascertaining to be a more reliable endodontic treatment. the purpose of this case report was to describe successful vpt of a mature mandibular left first molar with concurrent hyperplastic pulpitis, internal root resorption and periradicular periodontitis in a 35-year-old male patient. after complete caries removal and access ca...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of the Semmes-Weinstein monofilament examination (SWME) for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) screening at an outpatient clinic. METHODS Eighty-two type 2 diabetic outpatients were questioned about 13 subjective symptoms and tested for deep reflexes. They were examined using two types of quantitative sensory testing: SWME (using 4.31/2 g and 5.07/10 ...

The response of the adaptive immune system is usually less intense in premature neonates than term neonates. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether immunological parameters vary between preterm (PT) neonates (≥32 weeks of gestational age) and very preterm (VPT) neonates (<32 weeks of gestational age). A cross-sectional study was designed to prospectively follow PT and VPT ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess the severity of the erectile (ED) dysfunction among type 2 diabetic men. For subjective information patients were asked to fill up the IIEF questionnaire. This study was also done to correlate ED with other variables like age, obesity, duration of diabetes, degree of diabetic control and complications of diabetes. Neuropathy was assessed objectiv...

OBJECTIVES In healthy people, the vibrotactile perception threshold (VPT) at fingertips depends on a given measurement method and on individual characteristics such as age, gender and finger skin temperature. The aim of the study was to compare the VPT values in 2 groups of healthy subjects with different finger skin temperature. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study group comprised 56 males and 76...

Use of the vibration perception threshold (VPT) is a simple way of detecting large-fiber dysfunction, thus identifying individuals with diabetes at risk of ulceration. Nevertheless, poor standardization of measurement limits its use in clinical practice; furthermore, the unique normality threshold of 25 V is criticized due to the physiologic increase in VPT with age. The development of devices ...

This paper presents an approach to rapid development of virtual planning experts that can collaborate to develop plans of action requiring expertise from multiple domains. The approach is implemented into a new type of software tool, called Disciple-VPT, which includes an extensible library of virtual planning experts from different domains. Teams of such virtual experts can be rapidly assemble...

Let T = (V(T), E(T)) be a tree and B = {Pi} denote a collection of non-trivial (i.e., of length at least 1) simple paths in T, where a path P= (v,, u2, . . . , Q) is considered in the sequel as the collection {{uJ, {Q}, . . . ,{z)J, {u,, u2}, {u2, I+}, _ . . , {w,-,, Q}}. The intersection graph 0(S, 9) of 9 over set S has vertices which correspond to the paths in 9 and two vertices uk and U! ar...