BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hemangiomas remain a challenge for patients and plastic surgeons. Promising results have been reported using intralesional photocoagulation (ILP) for treatment. The objective of our study is to review the long term results of a large series of hemangiomas in patients treated by ILP. Materials (Subjects) and Methods: A retrospective review of 684 hemangiomas in patients...

Laser interference lithography is an established fabrication technique for periodic arrays such as photonic crystals (PCs). In this paper, we report the fabrication of a TiO2-organic hybrid periodic array by nanosecond laser interference lithography. TiO2organic hybrid films were prepared from titanium tetra-n-butoxide and 2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl acetoacetate (MEAcAc) by the sol–gel method. T...

We demonstrate a size sensitive experimental scheme which enables bidirectional transport and fractionation of paramagnetic colloids in a fluid medium. It is shown that two types of magnetic colloidal particles with different sizes can be simultaneously transported in opposite directions, when deposited above a stripe-patterned ferrite garnet film subjected to a square-wave magnetic modulation....

M. Fasoli,1 A. Vedda,1 M. Nikl,2 C. Jiang,3 B. P. Uberuaga,3 D. A. Andersson,3 K. J. McClellan,3 and C. R. Stanek3,* 1Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan 20125, Italy 2Institute of Physics AS CR, Prague 162 53, Czech Republic 3MST-8 Structure and Property Relations, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA (Received 4 August 2011; publis...

MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY (MIS) USING THE ERBIUM, CHROMIUM: yttrium-scandium-gallium-garnet (Er,Cr:YSGG) laser (Waterlase MD, Biolase, Irvine, CA) to treat moderate to advanced periodontal disease is presented as an alternative to conventional therapies. To date, there are few short- or long-term studies to demonstrate the effects of this laser in treating and maintaining periodontal health. E...

BACKGROUND Implant bed preparation with laser is taken into consideration owing to the increased interest in use of lasers in hard tissue surgery. The purpose of this study is to determine the deviations in the position and inclination between the planned and prepared implant beds with Erbium, Chromium doped Yttrium Scandium Gallium Garnet (Er,Cr:YSGG) laser using stereolithographic (SLA) surgi...

CATALINA IULIA SAVEANU1*, OANA DRAGOS2, VLAD DANILA3, CORINA CHEPTEA4 1 Grigore T. PopaUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Preventive Dentistry Department, 16, Universitatii Str., 700115, Iasi, Romania 2National Institute of Research-Development for Technical Physics – IFT Iasi 3 Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Dento ...

The distribution coefficient KD=(Mg / Fe)garnet/(Mg/Fe)biotite has been calculated for eight garnet-biotite pairs from rocks ranging from the garnet isograd to the staurolite zone along the Stonehaven coast of NE Scotland. This distribution coefficient depends upon metamorphic temperature and is not dependent upon the Mn and Ca content of garnet. Garnet-biotite geothermometer yields temperature...