introduction: the purpose of this in-vitro study was to investigate the influence of the remaining calcium hydroxide (ch) as an intracanal dressing on the apical sealing ability of three endodontic sealers. materials and methods: sixty-six single and straight canals of recently extracted human permanent maxillary central incisors were used. all canals were prepared and sixty of them were random...

AIM Toothbrushing effectiveness can be improved with at-home reinforcement of proper technique. This study evaluated the ability of a power brush with a wireless remote display (Oral-B Triumph with SmartGuide) to improve brushing force and thoroughness. METHODS AND MATERIALS At baseline, 61 pre-screened subjects were videotaped while brushing. The wireless display was also videotaped. Subject...

An in vitro study was performed to ascertain the marginal seal elemental composition of amalgam restored extracted teeth of known marginal leakage. Occlusal cavities were cut in 400 caries free extracted teeth and left unlined or lined with one of 5 bases. A varnish was applied to half the cavities followed by restoration with a low copper or high copper amalgam to produce 20 restoration combin...

Electrosurgical vessel sealing has been demonstrated to have benefits for both patients and practitioners, but significant variation in the strength of the seal continues to be a concern. This study aims to examine the variation in electrosurgical seal quality along the length of a porcine common carotid artery and explore the relationships between seal quality, vessel size and morphology. Addi...

Aerial low-frequency (100-6400 Hz) hearing thresholds were obtained for one California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), one harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and one northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris). Underwater thresholds over a similar frequency range (75-6300 or 6400 Hz) were obtained for these three animals in addition to another California sea lion. Such data are critical, not...

This text reports in detail how SEAL, a modeling framework for the economy based on individual agents and firms, works. Thus, it aims to be an usage manual for those wishing to use SEAL or SEAL’s results. As a reference work, theoretical and research studies are only cited. SEAL is thought as a Lab that enables the simulation of the economy with spatially bounded microeconomic-based computation...

As a distributed process calculus with localities and mobility of computational entities, Seal calculus is playing an important role in expressing key features such as security and mobility of Internet programming directly. However, little implementation technique proposed for the calculus, partly due to the complication of mobile computation, which fusions three important techniques: concurren...