Objective: The purpose of this study was to achieve a specific cephalometric pattern for young Afro-Caucasian Brazilian individuals and verify the presence of dimorphism between sexes. Methods: The sample was composed of 40 lateral cephalograms of young Afro-Caucasian Brazilian individuals (mulattos), 20 males (mean age 13.25 years) and 20 females (mean age 13.10 years), with normal occlusion a...

The rheumatic diseases, including the rheumatoid and osteo-arthritic types of arthritis and non-articular rheumatism, constitute by far the most important cause of crippling. A person suffering from a serious cardiac lesion is also in a sense crippled, so that, if we include the incapacity for work from this condition due to acute rheumatism, the problem is seen to be one of grave national and ...

Class III malocclusion is characterized by anterior posterior dental disharmony, either with or without skeletal discrepancies. Facial esthetics may be compromised to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the magnitude of the discrepancy, and is one of the main factors motivating individuals to seek orthodontic treatment. In adult patients, therapy may be performed by means of dental compens...

It is well known that a low level of circulating fibrinogen may be associated with bleeding in a variety of obstetric complications, as, for example, accidental haemorrhage. The actual cause, however, ofthe depletion offibrinogen in these conditions is debatable (Moore, 1955), but one feature of such states is the frequent presence of a circulating proteolytic agent which is capable of destroyi...

A new decomposition mode, a coherent pseudospinodal decomposition under geometrically confined conditions, is discovered. This mode is associated with a coupling of the decomposition with the displacive crystal lattice rearrangement and results in a gradual separation of compositions of two product phases. We consider a particular case of decomposition in an epitaxial thin film. The 3D phase fi...