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Managing blood loss is part of the surgeon's responsibility during surgical procedures, and a variety of therapeutic strategies are available to help accomplish this. Topical haemostatic agents are among the agents used to control surgical bleeding and locally arrest blood flow. Bovine thrombin is a commonly used topical haemostatic agent; however, its use has been associated with potential ris...

The formation of white spot lesions, or enamel demineralization, around fixed orthodontic attachments is a common complication during and following fixed orthodontic treatment, which marks the result of a successfully completed case. This article is a contemporary review of the risk factors and preventive methods of these orthodontics scars. Preventive programmes must be emphasized to all ortho...

PURPOSE This paper explores the role of the chief executive officer (CEO) in evidence-based design (EBD), discussing the internal and external challenges that a CEO faces, such as demands for increased quality, safety, patient-and-family-centeredness, increased revenue, and reduced cost. BACKGROUND Based on a series of interviews and case studies and the experience of the authors as researche...

Nowadays, complexity issues in mass customized manufacturing are considered as topical problem. Especially, product variety induced complexity is frequently discussed in recent research works. Our focus in this paper is based on an exploration of product variety induced complexity based on axiomatic design and entropy theories. For this purpose we propose to adopt previously developed complexit...

Despite high competition among big EU ports, such as Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Valencia, acting Core Ports in the Trans-European Transport and Comprehensive Network (TEN-T), this paper addresses marginalized decision-making capability for environmental digital transition immanent Small Medium-Sized (SMSPs) ecosystems EU. Irrespective of topical research, little is said about SMSPs ecosystem sustai...

some otolaryngologists administer topical phenylephrine for bleeding control in adenoidectomy surgery. absorption of this drug from surgical site can lead to increase in blood pressure due to vasoconstriction and then bradycardia related to baroreceptore reflex.  our case was an intraoperative arrest of a 9-yrs-old girl related to administration of topical phenylephrine during adenoidectomy how...

conclusions combination therapy with tretinoin plus topical corticosteroids is safe and effective and provides an alternative in the treatment of patients with vitiligo. objectives recent studies suggest that administration of topical tretinoin, with a corticosteroid, diminishes skin atrophy without impacting the steroid’s anti-inflammatory effects. patients and methods a placebo-controlled, pa...