The chairside-fabricated distal shoe appliance, with a stainless steel crown as the retainer, is an efficacious and cost-effective appliance for guiding the unerupted permanent first molar into position after premature loss or extraction of the second primary molar. The fabrication technique is illustrated in this case report and data is presented on the success rate of the appliance.

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE This report describes the use of lithium disilicate glass-ceramic veneer-fixed dental prostheses in replacing congenitally missing maxillary lateral incisors. This kind of prosthesis has an advantage over a lingual-retainer resin-bonded fixed dental prosthesis in its capability of changing the color and shape of the abutment teeth. The prostheses provided an acceptable esth...

A 51-year-old woman who worked as a company sales representative was concerned about the deteriorating condition of her anterior teeth. On presentation, the appearance of her anterior teeth was less than ideal, and she requested treatment to improve the situation. Her medical history was noncontributory, but intraoral examination revealed excessive diastema between the maxillary central incisor...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of conversion (DC) of two lingual retainer adhesives, Transbond Lingual Retainer (TLR) and Light Cure Retainer (LCR), cured with a fast halogen light, a plasma arc light and a light-emitting diode (LED) at various curing times. A conventional halogen light served as the control. One hundred adhesive samples (five per group) were cured for 5, 10 o...

Based on the technique for finding errors in new object intents a method of debugging source code is presented. This method is capable of finding strict implicative dependencies between lines of source code covered in successful and failed runs. The output is a logical expression. Using the new method it is possible to come closer to debugging programs on a logical level not checking executions...