Research Papers
Outcomes of a Quality Improvement Project Examining Early Childhood Caries and Improving Identification of At Risk Patients in a Pediatric Medical Home Setting.
Journal of pediatric nursing • 2015 • Vol. 30 (4)
Early childhood caries (ECC) is a widespread childhood disease that disproportionately affects children with disabilities, those in lower-income households and minority children. The American Academy…
Jackson, E
Quantitative evaluation of toothbrush and arm-joint motion during tooth brushing.
Clinical oral investigations • 2015 • Vol. 19 (6)
OBJECTIVES: It is very difficult for dental professionals to objectively assess tooth brushing skill of patients, because an obvious index to assess the brushing motion of patients has not been estab…
Inada, E; Iwasaki, T; Iwase, Y
Success rates of manual restorative treatment (MRT) with amalgam in permanent teeth in high caries-risk Filipino children.
Clinical oral investigations • 2015 • Vol. 19 (6)
OBJECTIVES: The objective of the study is to evaluate the success rate of amalgam restorations in manually prepared cavities under field conditions within a comprehensive school-based oral health-car…
Heinrich-Weltzien, R; Holmgren, C; Itchon, G
Two- and three-dimensional ultrasound for assessing potential airway obstruction in congenital epulis.
Ultrasound in obstetrics & gynecology : the official journal of the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology • 2015 • Vol. 46 (1)
Davrou, J; Giuseppi, A; Lapillonne, A
Are resin composites suitable replacements for amalgam? A study of two-body wear.
Clinical oral investigations • 2015 • Vol. 19 (6)
OBJECTIVES: Wear resistance is an important property of the dental materials, particularly for large restorations in the posterior regions and for the patients suffering from parafunctional activitie…
Belli, R; Lazaridou, D; Lohbauer, U
In vivo confocal scanning laser microscopy in patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome: A monocentric experience.
Modern rheumatology • 2015 • Vol. 25 (4)
AIMS: (i) To analyze the in vivo corneal structure and sub-basal plexus nerves in patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) and no-SS dry eye by confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) and (ii…
Baldini, C; Bombardieri, S; Fanucci, F
Incidence of white spot lesions among patients treated with self- and conventional ligation systems.
Clinical oral investigations • 2015 • Vol. 19 (6)
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of white spot lesions (WSLs) and its relationship with various patient and treatment variables, in patients treated with self-ligati…
Akin, M; Ayhan, F; Ileri, Z
A randomized controlled clinical study of the effect of daily intake of Ascophyllum nodosum alga on calculus, plaque, and gingivitis.
Clinical oral investigations • 2015 • Vol. 19 (6)
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate, in a randomized controlled cross-over study, the effect of daily intake of the alga Ascophyllum nodosum on supragingival calculus, plaque formation, a…
Koistinen, S; Ramberg, P; van Dijken, J
General practice web-based decision aid improves MMR vaccination uptake.
Evidence-based nursing • 2015 • Vol. 18 (3)
Downs, S; Hendrix, K
Cytotoxic Effects of Hydrogen Peroxide on Human Gingival Fibroblasts In Vitro.
Operative dentistry • 2015 • Vol. 40 (4)
In-office bleaching is a popular treatment in modern esthetic dentistry. However, bleaching agents sometimes accidentally adhere to the gingiva and peripheral tissues, even when applied by well-train…
Furukawa, M; K-Kaneyama, J; Manabe, A
Susceptibility to measles, mumps, and rubella in 5-year-old children in Flanders, Belgium.
European journal of pediatrics • 2015 • Vol. 174 (7)
The second dose of an MMR vaccine is a catch up for persons who did not receive the first dose or for primary vaccine failures. Catch up doses can be scheduled according to convenience into the progr…
Hutse, V; Leuridan, E; Maertens, K
Deep neck infections originating from the major salivary glands.
American journal of otolaryngology • 2015 • Vol. 36 (4)
OBJECTIVES: Before the widespread use of antibiotics, most deep neck infections (DNIs) stemmed from complicated pharyngeal infections. Nowadays, they seem to be due mainly to dental infections. In 20…
Fasanaro, E; Favaretto, N; Giacomelli, L
Annular Elastolytic Giant Cell Granuloma Successfully Treated with Minocycline Hydrochloride.
Acta dermato-venereologica • 2015 • Vol. 95 (6)
Akiyama, M; Kono, M; Muro, Y
The potential of CD44 as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in oral cancer.
Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology • 2015 • Vol. 44 (6)
The CD44 family of molecules exists as a wide range of isoforms ubiquitously expressed on the surface of mammalian cells. The variation in patterns of CD44 expression on cancer cells has been widely …
Chapireau, D; Emich, H; Hutchison, I
18F-FDG PET-CT as a supplement to CT/MRI for detection of nodal metastasis in hypopharyngeal SCC with palpably negative neck.
The Laryngoscope • 2015 • Vol. 125 (7)
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To determine the diagnostic value of (18) F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) compared with CT or magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for…
Kang, W; Kim, J; Koh, Y
The potential use of cell-based therapies in the treatment of oral diseases.
Oral diseases • 2015 • Vol. 21 (5)
A recent and exciting development in medicine is the use of living cells for patient treatment. The utility of living cells to treat diseases was first proved in hematopoietic stem cell transplantati…
Kagami, H
Normal Tissue Complication Probability Model for Radiation-induced Temporal Lobe Injury after Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.
Radiology • 2015 • Vol. 276 (1)
PURPOSE: To identify predictors for the development of temporal lobe injury (TLI) after intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data in 351 p…
Deng, X; Han, F; Huang, S
Amniotic membrane as a biological dressing for 5-fluoruracil-induced oral mucositis in rats.
International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery • 2015 • Vol. 44 (7)
Oral mucositis is a reaction to chemoradiation therapy during cancer treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of amniotic membrane as a biological dressing for oral mucositis lesio…
Carvalho, M; Gomes, M; Lima, G
Programmable bio-nanochip-based cytologic testing of oral potentially malignant disorders in Fanconi anemia.
Oral diseases • 2015 • Vol. 21 (5)
Fanconi anemia (FA) is caused by mutations of DNA repair genes. The risk of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) among FA patients is 800-folds higher than in the general population. Early detection o…
Abram, T; Floriano, P; Gillenwater, A
The prognostic significance of tyrosine-protein phosphatase nonreceptor type 12 expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine • 2015 • Vol. 36 (7)
Tyrosine-protein phosphatase nonreceptor type 12 (PTPN12) has been proposed to predict prognosis of various human cancers. However, the clinicopathologic and prognostic significance of PTPN12 express…
Cai, M; Chen, J; Ling, Y