Sterilization: The world’s most widely used method Sterilization is the world’s most widely used contraceptive method, in developing and developed countries alike. It accounts for nearly half of all contraceptive use. Today, one out of four couples worldwide use sterilization as their family planning method. However, the number of female sterilization users exceeds the number of vasectomy users...

Background: Extending the lifespan and improving physical properties of dental burs as most extensivly used instruments have been subject several studies. One proposed methods is using surface coatings for burs. Since are reused, they require sterilization. possible causes damage to autoclaving process. This study aimed investigate sterilization (autoclave) effect on wear diamond coated tungste...

Women who undergo sterilization may later regret this decision. This systematic review examines whether age at sterilization is associated with poststerilization regret. Using MEDLINE and EMBASE, we identified 19 articles that examined associations between women's age at sterilization and later regret, requests for sterilization reversal and undergoing sterilization reversal or requesting in vi...

From the methanol extract of Penicillium sp. cultivated on sterilized rice for three weeks we isolated three new meroterpenes preaustinoid A1, A2 and B1. The fungus was isolated from the root bark of Melia azedarach after surface sterilization. The structures of these compounds were identified by intensive spectroscopic studies.

With the continuous and expanding use of implantable biomaterials in a clinical setting, this study aims to elucidate the influence of sterilization techniques on the material surface and bulk properties of two polyurethane nanocomposite biomaterials. Both solid samples and porous membranes of nondegradable polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane poly(carbonate-urea) urethane (POSS-PCU) and a biod...

The development of bio-resorbable implant materials is rapidly going on. Sterilization of those materials is inevitable to assure the hygienic requirements for critical medical devices according to the medical device directive (MDD, 93/42/EG). Biopolymer-containing biomaterials are often highly sensitive towards classical sterilization procedures like steam, ethylene oxide treatment or gamma ir...

Liquid-phase plasma is not well known, although it has been used sparingly in water treatments and electrical discharge machining. We have named the liquid-phase plasma “solution plasma” and developed solution plasma processing (SPP). This paper reports the applications of SPP to syntheses of nanoparticles, surface modification of metals, and sterilization of water.

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of hysteroscopic sterilization with the "Essure" device with laparoscopic sterilization in a large, all-inclusive, state cohort. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTINGS Outpatient interventional setting in New York State. PARTICIPANTS Women undergoing interval sterilization procedure, including hysteroscopic sterilization with Essure dev...

The state of West Bengal has witnessed fertility transition during the last decade, though the level of infant and child mortality remained at a high level, particularly among the socio-economically disadvantaged communities. At the same time, the adoption of female sterilization has increased substantially. Adoption of sterilization in low fertility situation combined with relatively higher le...

introduction: regret after sterilization, not only requires an expensive surgical procedure for recanalization, but also can affect the couples’ inter and intra-relationships. whence, undergoing sterilization in sistan and baluchestan has the lowest rate compared to other provinces, the habitants’ regret after sterilization may further discourage other volunteers of the procedures. therefore, t...