Mar 15, 2021

Vitamin D deficiency remains very common in the general population. Adding to the importance of this issue is the discovery that vitamin D plays a role in many other tissues apart from the bone, inclu...

Mar 15, 2021

Retrospectively evaluate the association of periodontal treatment outcomes and the prevalence of peri-implant diseases around tissue-level implants.Eighty-six patients with 260 tissue-level implants (...

Mar 11, 2021

To determine the risk factors for lateral meniscus and root tears in patients with acute anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries.A total of 226 patients undergoing acute ACL reconstruction were incl...

Mar 11, 2021

Type II odontoid fractures are mostly encountered in the elderly. Due to a high risk of non-union fractures in the case of conservative treatment, surgical fixation is widely recommended. Anterior odo...

Mar 11, 2021

One of the main challenges in treating osteochondral lesions via tissue engineering approach is providing scaffolds with unique characteristics to mimic the complexity. It has led to application of he...

Mar 11, 2021

The choice between 2 or 3 implants to support a 3-unit implant-supported fixed dental prosthesis (FDP) still generates doubt in clinical practice.The aim of this study was to evaluate stress distribut...

Mar 08, 2021

Lateral premalleolar bursitis develops on the dorsolateral aspect of the foot anterior to the lateral malleolus, distinct from lateral malleolar bursitis located just around the lateral malleolus.A 71...

Mar 08, 2021

Little is known about the impact behavior of composite fixation plate used in the fracture healing of long bones diaphysis. Hence, this study examined polypropylene composite fixation plates using dif...

Mar 08, 2021

Bone-cartilage mismatch is a variation in which the surface curvature of the articular cartilage is incongruent with the curvature of the underlying subchondral bone. The purpose of this study is to i...

Mar 08, 2021

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) constitute a serious health care problem worldwide. This study addresses the effect of β-lactam treatment on the ability of clinically relevant MRSA...

Mar 04, 2021

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (i) to investigate whether the thermal treatment of direct dental resin composites (RCs) using microwave or autoclave heating cycles would modify the materials'...

Mar 04, 2021

To confirm whether peak aerobic capacity determined during laboratory testing could be replicated during an on-court field-based test in wheelchair rugby players.Sixteen wheelchair rugby players perfo...

Mar 04, 2021

Ageing, depression, and neurodegenerative disease are common risk factors for delirium in the elderly. These risk factors are associated with dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, ...

Mar 04, 2021

Multi-scale, subject-specific quantitative methods to characterize and monitor osteoarthritis in animal models and therapeutic treatments could help reveal causal relationships in disease development ...

Mar 04, 2021

Injecting soft tissue fillers into the deep plane of the forehead carries the risk of injection related visual compromise due to the specific course of the arterial vasculature.To investigate the 2- a...

Mar 04, 2021

Currently, we are experiencing a true pandemic of a communicable disease by the virus SARS-CoV-2 holding the whole world firmly in its grasp. Amazingly and unfortunately, this virus uses a metabolic a...

Mar 01, 2021

The relationship of pain sensitivity with pain and disability in low back pain (LBP) is complicated. It has been suggested increased understanding of dynamic quantitative sensory testing (QST) might b...

Mar 01, 2021

Fatigue is a common presenting symptom in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). Although fatigue alone is not currently an indication for parathyroidectomy, it can have a significant detrimental effect ...

Mar 01, 2021

The calcium phosphate component and surface topology of a scaffold are considered the two main factors that influence osteogenic differentiation. This research reports a one-step but effective scaffol...

Mar 01, 2021

Docosahexaenoic acid-derived protectin D1 (PD1) was identified critical in the resolution of inflammation in vivo, where it modulates the innate immune response and stimulates resolution. Acute pancre...