With the aging of the population worldwide, there is increased interest in surgical correction of presbyopia among our patients. To that end, in recent years several models of intrastromal corneal inlays have been introduced to the market with the purpose of providing those patients with clear crystalline lenses the opportunity to achieve better UNVA without diminishing distance vision. Each of...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prognostic factors that affect surgical and audiologic outcomes in inlay tympanoplasty after long-term follow-up. DESIGN Case series study. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Sixty-two patients who underwent 71 procedures were enrolled in the study. Patient ages ranged from 31 to 87 years (mean [SD] age, 61.2 [12.9] years). Mean (SD) follow-up was 635.7 ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcomes and safety of a refractive inlay (Flexivue Micro-Lens, Presbia Coöperatief U.A.) for the corneal compensation of presbyopia. METHODS This prospective, interventional clinical study comprised 47 emmetropic presbyopes with a mean age of 52±4 years (range: 45 to 60 years). The inlay was inserted, centered on the line of sight, inside a corneal pocket created in t...

In vitro studies have recommended enamel-etching before luting indirect restorations with self-adhesive resin cement. However, there is no scientific proof that this procedure has any clinical relevance. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of enamel-etching on the marginal quality of indirect composite resin restorations (inlay/onlay) using the self-adhesive cement RelyX Unic...

OBJECTIVES To establish a three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model of a maxillary first premolar and to evaluate the stress generated on the tooth (dentine) and on the indirect composite resin restorations by occlusal forces. METHODS An embedded intact maxillary first premolar tooth was sliced serially and scanned digitally parallel to the occlusal surface. The 64 images were assemble...

Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is a relatively new, but highly efficient imaging method applied first in dentistry in 1998. However, the quality of the obtained slices depends among other things on artifacts generated by dental restorations as well as orthodontic and prosthetic appliances. The aim of the study was to quantify the artifacts produced by standard prosthetic inlays in CBCT im...

Introduction: Inlay retained bridges represent a conservative approach to restore single missing posterior tooth. Objective: To evaluate the clinical performance and survival rate of inlay retained fixed partial dentures. Materials and methods: A total of 12 patients were included in this clinical study. The patient selection, preparation technique as well as restoration fabrication followed cu...

Recently, there have been widely conducted researches on dual-band radio frequency identification (RFID) tag based on 13.56 MHz (HF) and 900 MHz (UHF). Most dual-band RFID tag has been implemented so that each antenna is separated in a different inlay sheet respectively, which makes the resulting smart card impractically thick, and the typical drawback of dual-band RFID tags incorporated in one...

Asopa described the inlay of a graft into Snodgrass's longitudinal urethral plate incision using a ventral sagittal urethrotomy approach in 2001. He claimed that this technique was easier to perform and led to less tissue ischemia due to no need for mobilization of the urethra. This approach has subsequently been popularized among reconstructive urologists as the dorsal inlay urethroplasty or A...