BACKGROUND Erbium, chromium: Yttrium, scandium, gallium, garnet (Er, Cr: YSGG) laser has been successfully used in the ablation of dental hard and soft tissues. It has been reported that this system is also useful for preparing tooth surfaces and etching, but no consensus exist in the literature regarding the advantage of lasers over conventional tooth preparation technique. MATERIALS AND MET...

Two analytical procedures, dry combustion and acid extraction, were compared for the preparation of soft animal tissues and other biological samples for determination of fluoride with an ion selective electrode. Both methods were suitable for determining F in the range of 0.5 to 10.0 μg/g with less than 6% error. The combustion method is less laborious but is more accurate. The extraction metho...

Galway, Ireland Biodegradable Polypeptide-Based Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Regeneration Hana Studenovská, Petr Vodička, Vladimír Proks, Tomáš Sedlačík, Jana Hlučilová, Jan Motlík and František Rypáček Corresponding Author: [email protected] Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry AS CR, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic and Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics AS CR, v.v.i., Libechov, Cze...

Cervicofacial subcutaneous emphysema is an infrequently reported sequela of dental surgery. It may be caused by the inadvertent introduction of air into the soft tissues during procedures using high-speed, air-driven handpieces or air-water syringes. In this paper, we present a case in which subcutaneous emphysema developed in a middle-aged woman following routine restorative treatment. We revi...

Microstructure-based constitutive models have been adopted in recent studies of non-linear mechanical properties of biological soft tissues. These models provide more accurate predictions of the overall mechanical responses of tissues than phenomenological approaches. Based on standard approximations in non-linear mechanics, we classified the microstructural models into three categories: (1) un...