BACKGROUND Psychological discomfort, physical disability and functional limitations of the orofacial system have a major impact on everyday life of patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). In this study we sought to determine short and long term effects of stabilization splint (SS) in treatment of TMDs, and to identify factors influencing its efficacy. METHODS MEDLINE, Web of Science...

Abstract It is known that if G a group such the centre factor $$G/\zeta (G)$$ G / ζ ( ) polycyclic, then also commutator subgroup $$G'$$ ′ polycyclic. The aim of this paper to des...

In this paper we study finite groups which possess a strongly pembedded subgroup for some prime p. Suppose that p is a prime. A subgroup H of the finite group G is said to be strongly p-embedded in G if the following two conditions hold. (i) H < G and p divides |H|; and (ii) if g ∈ G \H , then p does not divide |H ∩H|. One of the most important properties of strongly p-embedded subgroups is tha...

OBJECTIVE To determine the oral status, salivary flow rate, Candida carriage in saliva, and prevalence of Candida albicans colonization in several areas of the mouth in patients with primary and secondary Sjögren's syndrome as opposed to those of healthy subjects. STUDY DESIGN Thirty-seven patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS), [14 patients with primary SS (SS-1) and 23 patients with secondar...

Sjögren syndrome (SS) is commonly known to be correlated with lymphoma. This study included 16,396 individuals in the SS cohort and 65,584 individuals in the non-SS cohort, all of whom were enrolled in the Taiwan National Health Insurance database between 2000 and 2010. We evaluated the risk factors of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in the primary SS cohort by applying a Cox multivariable proport...

For high-speed swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT), the real-time calibration process to convert the OCT signal to wave number space is highly essential. A novel calibration process/algorithm using a genetic algorithm and precise interpolation is developed. This algorithm is embedded and validated in a SS-OCT system with 16-kHz A-scan rate. The performance of the new algorithm is...

Sound stress (SS) elicits behavioral changes, including pain behaviors. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying SS-induced pain behaviors remain to be explored. The current study examined the effects of SS on nociceptive behaviors and changes in expression of the spinal corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) system in male Sprague Dawley rats with and without thermal pain. We also studied the...

We derive a general integral formula on an embedded hypersurface for general relativistic space-times. Suppose the hypersurface is foliated by two-dimensional compact “sections” Ss. Then the formula relates the rate of change of the divergence of outgoing light rays integrated over Ss under change of section to geometric (convexity and curvature) properties of Ss and the energy-momentum content...