BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Diode lasers are becoming popular in gingival treatment following orthodontic treatments. Despite their merit and clinical implications, postoperative pain and bleeding after surgery with diode lasers are not assessed except in few controversial studies. METHOD This controlled clinical trial was conducted on 30 healthy orthodontic patients aged 17-29 years, needing es...

PURPOSE To investigate by laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) the density of presumed epithelial, presumed goblet, and presumed inflammatory cells in the tarsal conjunctiva of healthy young and older subjects and in patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS). To evaluate the interobserver variability and to compare the measured densities with known age-related and SS-related changes. METHODS...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate motor behavior in children after traumatic brain injury (TBI) with quantitative instrumented measures of gait and of functional hand movements (reaching, grasping) and with clinical assessments. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Tertiary pediatric trauma rehabilitation center in Germany. PARTICIPANTS Twenty children (age range, 6-13 y) with moderate or severe TBI we...

AIM The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is a difference in pain and distress response of the child when using two different computer-controlled local analgesic delivery systems, the Sleeper One(®) and the WAND(®), and whether this was influenced by the anxiety level of the child. METHODS This randomised controlled trial was conducted among 112 children (56 girls) aged 4...

To analyse the influence of the sex of the transmitting grandparents on the occurrence of the congenital form of myotonic dystrophy (CDM), we have studied complete three generation pedigrees of 49 CDM cases, analysing: (1) the sex distribution in the grandparents' generation, and (2) the intergenerational amplification of the CTG repeat, measured in its absolute and relative values, between gra...

To investigate labour-associated changes in production of activin and related hormones by gestational tissues we prepared extracts from amnion, choriodecidual and placental tissues delivered at term before labour (TNL; n=15), at term after spontaneous labour (TSL; n=15) or preterm (PTD; n=31) and measured concentrations of inhibin A, activin A and follistatin by ELISA. Activin concentrations in...

laparoscopic and open ovariohysterectomy were compared for the following parameters: surgical time, incision length, suture number, saturation of oxyhemoglobin (spo2), heart rate, complications,cbc findings, melbourne pain scale (mps) and gross pathology. mps pain scores were evaluated using mann-whitney u test. other parameters were evaluated using studen's t test. there were no significa...

The aim of the study was to report the results of radical radiotherapy performed by three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) for squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx and to compare these data with those obtained with two-dimensional radiotherapy (2DRT) realized with cobalt-60 teletherapy i.e. telecobalt therapy (TCT). Eighty patients with previously untreated laryngeal cancer were irra...

PURPOSE To examine whether patients with glaucoma exhibit differences in visually guided reaching-and-grasping (prehension) behavior compared with normally sighted control subjects. METHODS Sixteen patients with glaucoma and 16 control subjects with no ocular disease participated. Participants were required to reach out and precision grasp one of two cylindrical objects placed on a table top ...