The effect of the Twin Block functional orthodontic appliances is mostly dento-alveolar with small skeletal effect. There are certain clinical indications where functional appliances can be used successfully in class II malocclusion e.g. in a growing patient. The use of these appliances is greatly dependent on the patient's compliance and they simplify the fixed appliance phase. In this case, a...

Digit sucking is a common childhood behavior, which has an adaptive value for children up to the fourth year of life. It is usually associated with oral pleasure and self-comforting behavior. But chronic practice may produce deleterious effect in the form of dental and skeletal deformities. Adjunctive therapy using bluegrass appliance as a permanent reminder and quadhelix appliance as a reminde...

An Automated Rapid Maxillary Expander (ARME), is a specially designed orthodontic appliance to overcome the shortcomings imposed by the traditional butterfly expansion appliance. It operates by automatically widening the maxilla (upper jaw) by expanding the midpalatal suture [1]. This procedure is not feasible after late teenage years due to more rigid facial skeleton features. According to the...

Open source UNIX-like operating systems offer unique opportunities for administrators to create appliance style operating system and application packages that meet their own specific needs. This paper provides examples of several commonly useful appliance configurations based on the Linux operating system and documents the motivations, principles, and techniques behind the development of a basi...

The aim of this article is to describe early maxillary alignment in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate using a new orthopedic appliance incorporating beta-titanium wire. The new orthopedic appliance was made with acrylic resin and a spring-shaped beta-titanium wire, and the appliance was fixed onto the hard palate with microscrews under general anesthesia for approximately 1 month. A...

In recent years, an increasing amount of solar energy has been produced around the globe, but too few consumers actually buy it. Three studies now show how this purchase can be promoted with approach similar to carbon offset program in aviation. After a fictitious differently priced appliances (e.g. electric toothbrush or TV set) online store, participants could certificate for appliance, where...

The aim of this paper is to describe the structure of the household’s energy demand as a discretercontinuous choice and, on this basis, establish an econometric model suitable for the data available in the Norwegian Energy Sur̈ eys. The discrete appliance choice is Ž specified as a multinomial logit model, with a mixture of appliance attributes operating . Ž . costs and individual characteristic...

BACKGROUND In the present study, we examined clinical and laser-evoked potentials (LEP) features in two groups of chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) patients treated with two different approaches: intra-oral appliance of prosthesis, aiming to reduce muscular tenderness, and 10 mg daily amitriptyline. METHODS Eighteen patients with diagnosed CTTH participated in this open label, controlled s...

Appliance programs are among the longest running and most successful of all energy efficiency programs. They reach hundreds of thousands of people in nearly every U.S. state and are embraced by customers and utilities alike. However, in late 2010, two of the country’s largest programs reached a critical decision point. Program cost-effectiveness had declined sharply due to decreasing per-measur...