PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between baseline caries experience and the restoration replacement rate in children. METHODS The 5-year New England Children's Amalgam Trial recruited 534 6- to 10-year-old children with 2 or more carious posterior teeth. The association between decoy and longevity of restorations was assessed. Restorations with no follow-up (N ...

OBJECTIVES This paper reports on the replacement risk of different treatment modalities for Class II amalgam restorations in a clinical trial of 15 years duration. METHODS The performance of 1117 conventional Class II amalgam restorations in a controlled, longitudinal study were analysed using logistic regression with a random component. Primary variables regarding replacement risk were the t...

A single implant-supported restoration is one treatment alternative to consider for the replacement of a missing tooth. Technological advances in materials and machining have led to the development of a densely sintered aluminum oxide ceramic abutment, designed and machined using CAD/CAM technology. This manufacturing method improves management of the subgingival depth of the crown/abutment int...

The high replacement costs of aircraft gas turbine blades and vanes have created a fast-growing, highly-specialized segment of the aircraft repair industry. The economic rationale for repair in lieu of replacement is prima facie. The metallurgical rationale is less certain, but satisfactory flight performance over the past twenty-five years at least attests to the technical adequacy of blade an...

Should a tooth with pulpal involvement be saved through endodontic therapy, or extracted and replaced with a single tooth implant? Within the limitations of the existing literature, this systematic review of treatment outcomes found that initial endodontic treatment had a high long-term survival rate, equivalent to replacement of a missing tooth with an implant-supported restoration. Single too...

We consider a replacement model for an additive damage process with linear restoration. The replacement policy is of the control limit type. Between replacements the damage level process is modeled as a compound Poisson process with positive jumps and negative drift, re ected at 0. We introduce meaningful cost functionals for this system and determine them explicitly for three special cases whe...