The purpose of this study was to evaluate the new bone formation and biodegradability of various bone fillers placed underneath a nonresorbable membrane (expanded polytetrafluoroethylene [e-PTFE]) in standardized defects in a beagle dog model. Mandibular premolars and first molars were extracted bilaterally in six adult female beagle dogs. Three months after the extractions, six rectangular def...

Background: Injectable dermal fillers are commonly used by physicians in the treatment of the signs of aging. The most commonly used dermal filler is hyaluronic acid. Skinfill plus (SFP) belongs to the family of monophasic monodensified fillers. In this post-marketing clinical study, we have evaluated the efficacy of SFP for the treatment of facial aging. Methods: The study enrolled 109 patient...

We propose a method that uses a filler prediction model for building a language model that includes fillers from a corpus without fillers. In our method, a filler prediction model is trained from a corpus that does not cover domain-relevant topics. It recovers fillers in inexact transcribed corpora in the target domain, and then a language model that includes fillers is built from the corpora. ...

Little research has been done to explore differences in the use of the fillers ‘um’ and ‘uh’ between children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and those with typical development (TD). Quantifying any differences could aid in diagnosing ASD, understanding its nature, and better understanding the mechanisms involved in dialogue processing. In this paper, we report on a study of dialogues bet...

Injectable fillers are widely used for facial rejuvenation, correction of disabling volumetric fat loss in HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy, Romberg disease, and post-traumatic facial disfiguring. The purpose of this article is to acquaint the reader with the anatomy of facial fat compartments, as well as with the properties and key imaging features of commonly used facial fillers, filler-rela...

With an increasing understanding of the aging process and the rapidly growing interest in minimally invasive treatments, injectable facial fillers have changed the perspective for the treatment and rejuvenation of the aging face. Other than autologous fat and certain preformed implants, the collagen family products were the only Food and Drug Administration approved soft tissue fillers. But the...

1 Introduction Using SHQ one can express number restrictions on role fillers of individuals. A typical question for a DL reasoner would be whether the concept ∀hasCredit. test the satisfiability of such a concept by first satisfying all at-least restrictions, e.g., by creating 260 hasCredit-fillers, of which 120 are instances of (Science Engineering). Eventually, a nondetermin-istic choose-rule...

This study investigates idiosyncrasy manifested in language use in spoken Japanese. For this purpose, we use speaker classification techniques as analytical tools. More precisely, focusing on Japanese case particles and fillers, of which the linguistic functions differ significantly, we aim to investigate 1) the extent of speaker idiosyncrasy in the selection of certain case particles/fillers o...

Although only recently introduced, chemically-modified hyaluronic acid dermal fillers have gained widespread acceptance as "redefining" dermal fillers in the fields of dermatology and cosmetic facial surgery. Although hyaluronic acid-based dermal fillers have a low overall incidence of long-term side effects, occasional adverse outcomes, ranging from chronic lymphoplasmacytic inflammatory react...