Evaluation of FDIs: Principles, Actualities and Possibilities

The clinical effects of modified full-mouth disinfection in the treatment of moderate to severe chronic periodontitis patients

Purpose: Full-mouth disinfection enables to reduce the probability of cross contamination from untreated pockets to treated ones, for completing the entire SRP under local anesthesia with chlorhexidine as a mouth wash in two visits within 24 hours. This study aimed to compare the clinical effects of modified full-mouth disinfection (Fdis) after 6 months with those of conventional SRP (cSRP). Me...

Commentary: Posterior tension band wiring and instrumentation for thoracolumbar flexion-distraction injuries.

fragments, secure ligaments or tendon to bone, and improve stability in weakened constructs.1–5 The spinous ligaments, ligamentum flavum, facet capsular ligament, and posterior longitudinal ligaments collectively form the natural posterior spinal tension band. The integrity of the posterior spinal ligamentous structures is critical, as they function to limit translation (anterior and posterior)...

Testing Associations of Plant Functional Diversity with Carbon and Nitrogen Storage along a Restoration Gradient of Sandy Grassland

The trait-based approach shows that ecosystem function is strongly affected by plant functional diversity as reflected by the traits of the most abundant species (community-weighted mean, CWM) and functional dispersion (FDis). Effects of CWM and FDis individually support the biomass ratio hypothesis and the niche complementarity hypothesis. However, there is little empirical evidence on the rel...

A Self-Consistent Technique for the Construction and Evaluation of the Three-Parameter Corresponding States Principles

A self-consistent approach for the evaluation of the existing three-parameter corresponding states principles of non-polar fluids and the calculation of the corresponding states parameters is presented. This self consistent approach is based upon the assumption that the contribution of the third parameter to the thermophysical properties is much smaller than the contributions of the first two p...

Clinical, para-clinical and therapeutical actualities encountered in acute suppurative pharyngeal infections