This case report describes fabrication of a palatal lift prosthesis for a quadriplegic edentulous 30-year-old male with past head traumatic injury. We constructed an implant supported bar and used a soft-lining material for the maxillary palatal lift prosthesis to minimize the possibility of implant overloading and also provide a less complex and less expensive procedure for this patient.

Rehabilitating atrophied mandible with two-implant supported denture is a common treatment modality for implant retained removable overdenture in mandible. This paper aims to design a treatment modality where single implant reinforced overdenture is fabricated for a severely atrophied mandibular ridge with early loading protocol. Results of studies have shown that a single implant mandibular ov...

This is part of a program devoted to the study of wavelets by making use of their Fourier transforms. We shall rst give a constructive characterization of all minimally-supported-frequencies(m.s.f.) wavelets. Then we use this to construct new m.s.f. wavelets, including ones that are not band-limited. We shall also provide a simple necessary and suucient condition for an m.s.f. wavelet to be ass...

Cochlear implant (CI) users are unable to receive masking release and the reasons are unclear. The present study examines the hypothesis that when listening to speech in fluctuating maskers, CI users cannot fuse the pieces of the message over temporal gaps because they are not able to perceive reliably the information carried by obstruent consonants (e.g., stops). To test this hypothesis, CI us...

The movement to establish uniform standards for the identification of empirically supported treatments (EST) has contributed to an impressive growth in the number of treatments deemed to have strong evidence of their efficacy. Those treatments meeting the most rigorous standards are often granted the label well-established and have been identified in a variety of online and print formats. An im...

OBJECTIVE To assess the success rate of tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis as the primary mode of voice rehabilitation in patients after total laryngectomy. METHODS Medical record files of 35 patients subjected to total laryngectomy were reviewed for determining success or failure of the voice prosthesis. The indicators used were quality of speech and utility of the device. Subsequent complic...

Implant and prosthesis success for 77 partially edentulous patients, provided with 97 fixed prostheses, supported by 230 Brånemark implants, in place for up to 12 years (mean 5.41 years), were documented in this study. Implant losses per location mirrored their placement, with no difference between zones I and II or between the maxilla and mandible. The implant success rate was 94%, and continu...

BACKGROUND The voice prosthesis inserted into a tracheoesophageal fistula has become the most widely used device for voice rehabilitation in patients with total laryngectomy. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of tracheoesophageal prosthesis' (TEP) aspiration in a laryngectomized patient, with permanent tracheal stoma, that appeared during standard cleaning procedure, despite a programme of...

Penile prosthesis is a functional option for patients who have erectile dysfunction after failed medical and intracavernosal treatments. Malleable penile prosthesis is a good alternative. Penile prosthesis implantation is a surgical process. Seldomly complications occur. In this study we presented a 61 y old man who has malfunctioned and broken penile prosthesis due to cross implantation.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical outcome and patient satisfaction in patients treated with implant supported fixed mandibular prostheses (ISFMP) according to early and delayed loading implant protocols. Materials and methods: Inclusion criteria comprised all consecutive patient treated between 1999 and 2004. A total of 111 patients had received ISFMP during the period, of which 84 (40 men, 44 ...