Damage control resuscitation (DCR) represents the natural evolution of the initial concept of damage control surgery. It currently includes early blood product transfusion, immediate arrest and/or temporization of ongoing hemorrhage (i.e., temporary intravascular shunts and/or balloon tamponade) as well as restoration of blood volume and physiologic/hematologic stability. As a result, DCR addre...

The ideal treatment method for fibular fractures associated with high-energy pilon injuries remains unknown. In this investigation, the authors reviewed a consecutive series of 137 patients who sustained high-energy pilon injuries and assessed the effect of fibular fixation and timing on radiographic and clinical outcomes. At a mean follow-up of 18.7 months, the authors found that the presence ...

This paper proposes a novel pixel wise fragile watermarking scheme in spatial domain by which one can effectively locate the tamper in every pixel of the images accurately and scheme is also protected by user defined secret key which is given explicitly. Proposed watermarking algorithms has good PSNR value and have less complexity of algorithms. Proposed algorithms can also work on color images...

This study shows that the cochlear hearing losses [temporary threshold shifts (TTSs)] induced by traumatic sound and the effect of olivocochlear (OC) pathways to the cochlea on these hearing losses depend on the context of the sound. Background atraumatic white noise (WN) has been shown to 1) exacerbate loud-pure-tone-induced TTSs, and 2) promote the modulation of TTSs by the uncrossed OC (UOC)...

In this paper we obtain the necessary and sufficient condition for balanced-caterpillar factorization of crowns and that for directed caterpillar factorization of symmetric crowns.

For island dentistry, 1903 was something of a landmark year, notable for the founding of the Dental Society of Hawaii and the enactment of legislation setting new, rigorous standards for professional licensing. When Dr. John Morgan Whitney, Hawaii's first resident graduate dentist, delivered the presidential address before the first annual meeting of the Society the following January, he in eff...

The left cerebral hemisphere of Mongolian gerbils was used to elucidate the mechanisms of brain edema which develop during cerebral ischemia and after restoration of cerebral blood flow following temporary ischemia. Water content was measured by the tissue-drying method. Sodium and potssium ion concentration was measured by flame photometry. Passage of 131I-albumin (RISA) from blood to the cere...

Background: There is increased use of all-ceramic crowns in place of ceramo-metal crowns in restorative practices. The difference in properties of different ceramics will affect the final esthetics of the restoration, and we need to consider this, especially when restoring anterior teeth. This article compares and analyzes translucency levels of different zirconia-based ceramic CAD/CAM systems....

To assess the risk of hearing loss among workers using earphones as communication devices at noisy worksites, we compared temporary threshold shifts (TTS) between ears on which workers wore earphones and ears on which no earphones were worn. We measured ambient noise and personal noise exposure as well as noise generated by and passed through earphones by applying frequency analysis at three pi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the short-term clinical outcome of single-tooth implants placed in the maxilla and immediately restored using cementless friction-fit temporary crowns. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-five patients consecutively referred to a private specialist practice for the replacement of failing or missing maxillary teeth were treated by means of immediate t...