PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the response of the human primary pulp to the carbon dioxide laser and formocresol for vital pulp therapy. METHODS Fifteen healthy children with intact, caries-and-restoration-free, contralateral primary cuspids with at least two-thirds of the roots remaining who were scheduled for orthodontic extraction were randomly assigned to pulpotomy tre...

Granuloma faciale (GF), also known as "eosinophilic granuloma," is a rare benign leukocytoclastic vasculitis which most commonly occurs on the face of middle-aged Caucasian males. Clinically, GF appears as single or multiple, slowly growing, reddish-brown papules, nodules or plaques which may be cosmetically unpleasant. Its pathogenesis is unknown and GF is notoriously resistant to treatments. ...

BACKGROUND/AIM The Global initiative for chronic obstructive lung diseases (GOLD) reports a staging system for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) based on airflow limitations at rest. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is used in surveys to determine the remaining working capacity concerning the degree of disability and the disability benefit payment after rehabilitation in patie...

introduction: the efficacy of erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (er:yag) laser for root debridement in comparison with curettes has been the subject of many recent investigations. considering the possibility of chemical and ultra-structural changes in root surfaces following laser irradiation, this study sought to assess the effects of scaling and root planing (srp) with curettes and er:yag ...

We demonstrate that strong laser pulses can induce torsional motion in a molecule consisting of a pair of phenyl rings. A nanosecond laser pulse spatially aligns the carbon-carbon bond axis, connecting the two phenyl rings, allowing a perpendicularly polarized, intense femtosecond pulse to initiate torsional motion accompanied by an overall rotation about the fixed axis. We monitor the induced ...