Research Papers
A noncontact resonance frequency detection technique for the assessment of the interfacial bone defect around a dental implant.
Medical engineering & physics • 2013 • Vol. 35 (12)
This study employed a noncontact resonance frequency (RF) detection technique that was developed by our group to evaluate the interfacial bone in in vitro implant-bone models. Based on our method, th…
Chen, C; Lee, S; Pan, M
Augmented mandibular bone structurally adapts to functional loading.
International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery • 2013 • Vol. 42 (12)
Long-term changes in trabecular bone structure during the 10 years following onlay grafting with simultaneous mandibular implant placement were studied. Extraoral radiographs of both mandibular sides…
Cune, M; de Putter, C; Koole, R
Surgical extrusion as a treatment option for crown-root fracture in permanent anterior teeth: a systematic review.
Dental traumatology : official publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology • 2013 • Vol. 29 (6)
BACKGROUND: A crown-root fracture is defined as a fracture involving enamel, dentin, and cementum. The possibility of saving and reconstructing teeth with such fractures has increasingly become a via…
Das, B; Muthu, M
Complex lower face reconstruction using a combined technique of Estlander flap and subscapular artery system free flaps.
Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS • 2013 • Vol. 66 (12)
When advanced mandibular carcinoma is resected, the defect may include lip and oral commissure. Free flap insertion is commonly used to reconstruct the lip defect. Although improvements in the oral r…
Beppu, T; Hamahata, A; Hatanaka, A
Surgical management of large venous malformations of the lower face.
The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery • 2013 • Vol. 51 (8)
We describe the benefits of an early surgical approach to large (more than 3 cm) venous malformations in the lower face, and discuss the advantages over conservative treatment. Fifty-eight patients w…
Hontanilla, B; Marre, D; Qiu, S
Predictors of coronal caries progression in adults: results from the Prevention of Adult Caries Study.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology • 2013 • Vol. 41 (6)
OBJECTIVES: This secondary analysis of data from the Prevention of Adult Caries Study (PACS) assesses risk factors for progression of coronal caries. METHODS: Participants (n = 983) were adults at in…
Bader, J; Blanchard, P; Laws, R
Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase overexpression is associated with Akt phosphorylation and indicates worse prognosis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine • 2013 • Vol. 34 (6)
Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) is overexpressed in many human cancers and is associated with poor prognosis. Akt (also known as protein kinase B) is an evolutionarily conserved serine/threon…
Chen, L; Hsing, C; Huang, H
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: a rapidly growing soft tissue mass in the posterior mandible.
Head and neck pathology • 2013 • Vol. 7 (4)
The term inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) encompasses a diverse group of spindle cell entities that traverses a clinical and histologic spectrum, extending from reactive to benign neoplastic …
Byatnal, A; Narayanaswamy, V; Radhakrishnan, R
Histological comparison of healing following tooth extraction with ridge preservation using enamel matrix derivatives versus Bio-Oss Collagen: a pilot study.
International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery • 2013 • Vol. 42 (12)
The goal of the present clinical study was to evaluate new bone formation in human extraction sockets augmented with enamel matrix derivatives (EMD) and Bio-Oss Collagen. Patients with symmetrical si…
Alkan, E; Parlar, A; Senguven, B
Giant peripheral ossifying fibroma: a case report and clinicopathologic review of 10 cases from the literature.
Head and neck pathology • 2013 • Vol. 7 (4)
Peripheral ossifying fibroma (POF) is most often a self-limiting, sessile or pedunculated, gingival nodule that is believed to be a reactive rather than neoplastic pathologic process. The lesion is t…
Childers, E; Fryer, C; Morton, I
Pathological implications of Th1/Th2 cytokine genetic variants in Behcet's disease: Data from a pilot study in a Sicilian population.
Biochemical genetics • 2013 • Vol. 51 (11-12)
Cytokines act as pleiotropic polypeptides able to regulate inflammatory/immune responses and to provide important signals in physiological and pathological processes. Several cytokines (Th1, Th2, and…
Accardo-Palombo, A; Balistreri, C; Bova, M
Maxillary quadrangular Le Fort I osteotomy: long-term skeletal stability and clinical outcome.
International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery • 2013 • Vol. 42 (12)
The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term skeletal stability of the maxillary quadrangular Le Fort I osteotomy, and secondarily to determine patient overall experience and satis…
Keller, E; Kim, R; Regennitter, F
Oral cancer chemotherapy adherence and adherence assessment tools: a report from North Central Cancer Group Trial N0747 and a systematic review of the literature.
Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education • 2013 • Vol. 28 (4)
Oncologists are now prescribing more oral chemotherapy than ever before, thus placing the onus for taking the right dose at the right time under the right circumstances directly on the patient. This …
Costello, B; Farrell, A; Foster, N
Mandibular reconstruction using iliac bone and great auricular nerve grafts and oral rehabilitation using osseointegrated implants in a patient with a large ossifying fibroma: a 10-year follow-up study.
Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery : official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons • 2013 • Vol. 71 (12)
Ossifying fibromas are bone-related benign neoplasms that are characterized by well-demarcated lesions composed of fibrocellular tissue and mineralized material with varying appearances. Although sma…
Nakamura, M; Ohba, S; Sano, K
The deep circumflex iliac artery perforator flap (DCIAP)--a reconstructive option for the large composite oro-mandibular cutaneous defect.
The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery • 2013 • Vol. 51 (8)
The deep circumflex iliac artery (DCIA) flap is often used for mandibular reconstruction but it is bulky and causes additional donor-site morbidity because of the inclusion of an "obligatory internal…
Bisase, B; Coombes, D; Norris, P
The inhibitory effects of antimuscarinic autoantibodies in the sera of primary Sjogren syndrome patients on the gastrointestinal motility.
Molecular immunology • 2013 • Vol. 56 (4)
Impairment of gastrointestinal tract (GI) function, including delayed gastric emptying and colonic dysmotility, are common features of primary Sjogren's syndrome (SS). However, the pathogenesis remai…
Jackson, M; Park, K; Park, S
CD133 expression in oral lichen planus correlated with the risk for progression to oral squamous cell carcinoma.
Annals of diagnostic pathology • 2013 • Vol. 17 (6)
Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a potentially malignant disorder associated with an increased risk for progression to oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). The objective of this study to determine protein…
Feng, J; Liu, W; Ma, L
Regulatory T cells in Behcet's disease: is there a correlation with disease activity? Does regulatory T cell type matter?
Rheumatology international • 2013 • Vol. 33 (12)
The aim of this study was to investigate the percentage of regulatory T cells and the correlation with clinical activity in Behcet's disease. Forty Behcet's disease (BD) patients, 18 males and 22 fem…
Bal, C; Bilge, N; Cansu, D
[Radio-opaque masses detected on orthopantomograph].
Revue de stomatologie, de chirurgie maxillo-faciale et de chirurgie orale • 2013 • Vol. 114 (6)
Douilly, G; Fauroux, M; Torres, J
Digital measurements of 120 mandibular angles to determine the ideal fibula wedge osteotomy to re-create the mandibular angle for microvascular reconstruction.
Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery : official journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons • 2013 • Vol. 71 (12)
PURPOSE: Mandibular reconstruction continues to be a challenge, even for the seasoned reconstructive surgeon. The present study sought to determine the normal anatomic mandibular angle and to establi…
Brown, D; Fernandes, R; Pirgousis, P