Using an impression of the anophthalmic socket to facilitate the design of an artificial eye is common practice today. The Modified Impression technique was described in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, February 1969, by Lee Allen and Howard E. Webster. It is a highly successful method that involves taking an impression of the socket using an impression tray, then making a wax casting of ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the dimensional accuracy of several impression methods including agar alginate combined impression in vivo; the marginal accuracy of stone dies was determined using a new electroformed master crown technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cast cores with knife-edge and chamfer margins and electroformed master crowns were fabricated for 3 patients. Five impressions were taken of ea...

Capsaicin (CAP) excites small sensory neurons, causing pain, neurogenic inflammation, and other visceral reflexes. These effects have been proposed to be the result of CAP activation of a nonselective cation current. It is generally assumed that CAP binds to an extracellular domain of the membrane receptor. However, the exact binding site is not known because of the lipophilic nature of CAP. To...

[1] The polar cap index (PCI) has been shown to be quite useful as an index of the electrodynamic processes within the high-latitude ionosphere. Here we use between 150 and 180 magnetometers to model the high-latitude electrodynamics with the assimilative mapping of ionospheric electrodynamics (AMIE) technique for all of 1997–2001. We compare AMIE calculations of the cross polar cap potential (...

aAssistant Professor, Division of Prosthodontics, Institute of Odontology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University. bResident, Division of Prosthodontics, Institute of Odontology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University. cPrivate practice, Vilnius, Lithuania. dLecturer, Division of Orthodontics, Institute of Odontology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University. (J Prosthet Dent 2011;106:204-205)...

We introduce a “smart” cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap increases or decreases in response to technology or macroeconomic shocks. It relies on the market price of certificates to aggregate the relevant information. In the static setting, Weitzman (1974) shows that a tax is more efficient than a (standard) cap if marginal ...

Statement of the Problem: Understanding about impression materials, their properties, uses and manipulation can guide operators towards having more successful restorations. Purpose: The aim of this in vitro study was to compare the accuracy of a condensation silicone impression material, Optosil, and an addition poly siloxane impression material, Elite-HD. Materials and Method: A laboratory mod...

Impression management, the process by which people control the impressions others form of them, plays an important role in interpersonal behavior. This article presents a 2-component model within which the literature regarding impression management is reviewed. This model conceptualizes impression management as being composed of 2 discrete processes. The 1st involves impression motivation—the d...

A major aim of Kansei engineering is to translate human impressions into physical features of certain objects. When seeing a certain object, different individuals would try to express their impression of it with many different words even if they feel the same emotion for the object. However, no efficient approach to deal with such a large variety of impression words has been proposed so far. Th...