OBJECTIVES Tolerance induction to prevent development of nickel allergy has been suggested with permanent dental braces. We wanted to find out which effect orthodontic treatments had had on the development of nickel allergy in university students. STUDY DESIGN We examined and patch tested 153 students, of whom 113 had a history of pierced skin, and 70 a history of orthodontic treatment roughl...

PURPOSE To date, studies pertaining to possible links between body modification and risk-taking behaviours have been conducted mainly among targeted groups. The objective of this study is to examine the influence of a number of risk-taking behaviours on the probability of being pierced or tattooed among a general adolescent population. METHODS Data come from a cross-sectional study conducted ...

the most enigmatic problems with the nearly 200 salt domes pierced in the persian gulf and in the zagros mountain ranges (zmr) in southern iran, a unique morphology in the world, have been the matter of this study, which is based on a combination of field work, enhancement of satellite and aerial photographs etc. in the zmr, structural anomalies are frequently associated with similar facies dis...

Olives ripen in the late autumn and represent a good source of nutrients that Halyomorpha halys uses to prepare for diapause. This is first study investigate impact H. infestation on phenolic response olive fruit quality pierced tissue damaged fruits non-pierced part ‘Istrska belica’ ‘Pendolino’ cultivars. Both total content antioxidant capacity contents significantly increased infested cultiva...

We prove that every finite family of convex sets in the plane satisfying (4, 3)-property can be pierced by nine points. This improves bound 13 proved Kleitman et al. (Combinatorica 21(2), 221–232 (2001)).

the macroscopic study of 31 adult cadavers proved a variation to matula and lang's study. in 2 cases (6.4%) a prevertebral segment ran up to cy in one of which (3.2%) the middle cervical ganglion was pierced. this, we believe, is significant not only in diagnosis but also in surgical and endovascular treatment.