The Hader bar system is a popular bar and clip concept because of its 20-degree clip rotation, simplicity, and versatility. Two procedures may be used to incorporate the Hader nylon clip into a denture base. The direct technique consists of attaching the clip to the denture base as a clinical procedure. With the indirect technique, the clip is attached during laboratory processing. An alternati...

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) nowadays is the standard treatment for gallstone disease. In laparoscopic cystic duct and artery are usually secured by titanium clips there other methods securing like intracorporeal ligation or harmonic scalpel. application of shown to have some complications. Objective: compare suture versus clipping in terms efficacy safety operation time. Patie...

This article introduces a new biomedical / open surgical instrument to assist surgeon in applying surgical clips to patient’s body tissue and blood vessel during surgical processes. The new clip delivery system is designed to better the clip’s distal advance through internal clip channel, jaw guiding track, and all other transition areas to keep surgical clip from accidental shooting out during...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using titanium screws in combination with particulate human mineralized allograft, in a "tenting" fashion, to augment large vertical alveolar ridge defects for implant placement. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective case study evaluated augmentation in consecutive patients with large (>7 mm) vertical alveolar ridge defec...

The Greater Antilles islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Jamaica plus the Virgin Islands host fragments fossil convergent margin that records Cretaceous subduction (operated for about 90 m.y.) American plates beneath Caribbean plate ensuing arc-continent collision in Late Cretaceous-Eocene time. “soft” between Arc (GAA) Bahamas platform (and Maya Block western Cuba) preserved much marg...

OBJECTIVES A randomized controlled trial was performed to assess soft tissue cell adhesion to implant titanium abutments subjected to different cleaning procedures and test if plasma cleaning can enhance cell adhesion at an early healing time. STUDY DESIGN Eighteen patients with osseointegrated and submerged implants were included. Before re-opening, 18 abutments were divided in 3 groups corr...

This review aims to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of zirconia implants compared with titanium implants. Moreover, it intends relevant available long-term literature these two materials regarding osteointegration, soft-tissue, microbiota, peri-implantitis, focusing on clinical results. Briefly, are a reliable alternative for missing teeth; however, they not incapable failure. In an at...

CLIPs (cytoplasmic linker proteins) are a class of proteins believed to mediate the initial, static interaction of organelles with microtubules. CLIP-170, the CLIP best characterized to date, is required for in vitro binding of endocytic transport vesicles to microtubules. We report here that CLIP-170 transiently associates with prometaphase chromosome kinetochores and codistributes with dynein...

OBJECTIVES The postoperative course following sternectomy for cancer carries significant morbidity due to paradoxical breathing, pulmonary infections and infectious complications. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the outcomes in patients undergoing sternal reconstruction using an innovative titanium rib bridge system (STRATOS). METHODS From 2008 to 2011, 24 patients underwent sternec...

BACKGROUND Magnesium alloys have recently been rediscovered as biodegradable implants in musculoskeletal surgery. This study is an ex-vivo trial to evaluate the imaging characteristics of magnesium implants in different imaging modalities as compared to conventional metallic implants. METHODS A CE-approved magnesium Herbert screw (MAGNEZIX®) and a titanium screw of the same dimensions (3.2x20...