Preventive orthodontia

The Evolving Use of Computer-aided Drafting, Design, and Manufacturing in Orthodontia

Computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) is a computer-based program that improves the efficiency of product design and components both inside and outside of engineering. In recent years the use of CADD in dentistry, more commonly known as computer-aided dentistry, has become commonplace, allowing doctors and patients to individually design treatment with the result visible through computer-ge...

Preventive Medicine

Preventive Medicine

This report is concerned with the sources of language a lack of systematic work on the possible effects of landevelopment in the child. We have found a substantial guage input on vocabulary size. Clearly, however, vocabrelation between naturally occurring variations in ulary has to be learned, and attaining a large vocabuchildren’s language environments and their language lary is a huge associa...

Preventive Medicine

Epidemiologic studies of Seventh-Day Adventists have clearly shown that dietary habits are associated with risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and other chronic diseases. However, a few surprising results emerge. Meat consumption is clearly hazardous for Adventist men by raising CHD mortality. However, no such effect was seen in women. Possible reasons are discussed. Our data, and that of othe...

Preventive Medicine

Background. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between receptivity to cigarette promotions and smoking uptake in a cohort of adolescents. Methods and Measures. This was a prospective cohort study of 480 4thto 11th-grade students conducted in three rural Vermont K–12 schools. Cigarette use was determined by self-report at baseline, 12 months (survey 2), and 21 months (surv...