Brushing Up On Bristles

Brushing up on Polymers

A symposium on the topic was held at the ACS national meeting in New Orleans last month. It was cosponsored by the Divisions of Polymer Chemistry and Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering. The symposium was organized by Brittain; University of Houston associate chemistry professor Rigoberto C. Advincula; Duke University senior research scientist Kenneth C. Caster; and Jürgen Rühe, professo...

Brushing up on use of chemical indicators.

Daichi's Painting: Brushing Up Painting Skills with BrushDevice

We realize a painting system that imitates painting on real objects in the real world. Many studies have proposed methods of painting simulation on 2D canvas, and the quality of such methods is improving. However, painting on 3D objects is not easy using conventional input devices such as a mouse or graphics tablet with 2D display. We solved this problem by providing a ToolDevice in a mixed rea...

Palatal Brushing on Denture Stomatitis

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the efficacy of palatal brushing in the treatment of denture stomatitis. Materials and Methods: After screening 143 individuals with a potential diagnosis of denture stomatitis, 48 patients (mean age: 66.0 ± 11.2 years) were enrolled in a two-center phase 1 clinical trial with a one-group pretest/posttest design. The intervention of interest was manual palata...

ToothAgent: Brushing on Your Behalf

Common interests among people in different communities and levels are driving plenty of research groups and industry developers to pay more attention to such a vast zone of opportunities. Nowadays, unifying service architectures and implementations has become achievable, advanced and sophisticated mobile services early-adopters and late-integrators are standing over one tangible concept; troubl...