PURPOSE This study was designed to evaluate the teeth and dental implants during dental maintenance therapy over 3 years in different conditions after periodontal and dental prosthetic treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS 166 patients received maintenance therapy. 59 patients were treated with 2% minocycline-HCl ointment as local drug delivery (LDD) (L group) and 107 patients were treated without...

BACKGROUND The adjunctive use of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitors with scaling and root planing (SRP) promotes new attachment in patients with periodontal disease. This pilot study was designed to examine aspects of the biological response brought about by the MMP inhibitor low dose doxycycline (LDD) combined with access flap surgery (AFS) on the modulation of periodontal wound repair ...

The LDD model was first applied to Arsenic concentration profiles determined in surface diffusion experiments by Yoshida and Arai [1]. The new method presented is based on a mathematical convolution with a delta-function-like concentration profile. By comparing the LDD approximation of post-surface diffusion with post-implant diffusion experiments, the same LDD model parameter r is found to hol...

We propose a temperature sensor employing a ring oscillator composed of poly-Si thin-film transistors (TFTs). Particularly in this research, we compare temperature sensors using TFTs with lightlydoped drain structure (LDD TFTs) and TFTs with offset drain structure (offset TFTs). First, temperature dependences of transistor characteristics are compared between the LDD and offset TFTs. It is conf...

The computational properties of second-order lossless discrete integrator/differentiator (LDI/LDD) allpass filters are studied, where the resource requirements in bit-serial hardware implementations are given particular interest. The properties of the LDI/LDD filters are compared to the corresponding properties of second-order wave digital (WD) filters using three-port series adaptors. Two impl...

BACKGROUND Radiographic features of lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) are common findings in patients with chronic mechanical low back pain; however, its role in disability and intensity of pain is debatable. This study aims to investigate the associations of the x-ray features of LDD and lumbar spondylolisthesis with severity of disability and intensity of pain. METHODS A cross-sectional study ...

An analytical model is developed to study the impact of scaling on the thermal and gate induced noise of the small geometry LDD MOSFETs. The analyses includes the short channel, narrow width, velocity saturation, hot carrier and LDD effects. The intricacy in analysis when considering all these effects simultaneously as in the small geometry devices is overcomed and a generalized expression vali...

Despite the increasing body of evidence supporting the hypothesis of schizophrenia as a disconnection syndrome, studies of resting-state EEG Source Functional Connectivity (EEG-SFC) in people affected by schizophrenia are sparse. The aim of the present study was to investigate resting-state EEG-SFC in 77 stable, medicated patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) compared to 78 healthy volunteers (HV)....

Long-distance dispersal (LDD) may contribute disproportionately to range expansions, the creation of new evolutionary lineages, and species persistence in human-dominated landscapes. However, because data on the individual consequences of dispersal distance are extremely limited, we have little insight on how LDD is maintained in natural populations. I used six years of spatially explicit captu...

OBJECTIVE Osteoarthritis (OA) and osteoporosis are often considered to lie at opposite ends of a spectrum of bone phenotypes. Lumbar degenerative disc disease (LDD) may be associated with low back pain (LBP) and is similar in many ways to OA. LDD is reported in small studies to be associated with increased spine bone mineral density (BMD). The present work aimed to confirm this association in a...