Introduction: Edentulism, especially in the support areas, as well pathological tooth wear (abrasion and attrition) of hard dental tissues leads to a decrease occlusal height posterior translocation articular heads central occlusion. Partial complete edentulousness patients disturbs their occlusal, phonetic function, aesthetics. Aim: The aim present study is investigate relationship between typ...

Jules B. van Lier, Anand Vashi, Jeroen van der Lubbe and Barry Heffernan 1 Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 2 Enviro Control Associates (I) PVT.LTD. Opp. Bank of Mahashtra, Ghod Dod Road, Surat395 001, Gujarat, India 3 Biothane Systems International, Tanthofdreef 21, 2600 GB Delft, The Netherland. j.b.v...

1 Chairman, Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development, July 1, 1962-June 30, 1965. Upon completion of his term as Chairman of CPRD, Dr. Aitken will continue to serve as a member of CPRD. The publicity concerning scientific and technical advances keeps us constantly aware of man's increasing competence to master his environment. The technologies available make possible a wide variety of ...

REVIEW Objective measurement systems which quan­ tify locomotion have been in use for the past century. But not until World War II, when thousands of men returned home to the United States with amputations, was technology really applied to the understanding of prosthetic gait. Inman and colleagues 1 founded the Biome­ chanics Laboratory at the University of Cali­ fornia to establish fundamental...

t is reported that millions of people are suffering from some kind of hearing impairment [1]. The number is climbing due to the increasing portion of elderly people in the world's population. While hearing loss is usually caused by permanent mechanical damage to the ear, there is no medicine to reverse it, and surgery offers little help. Thus, electronic hearing aids or pros-thetics are, so far...

Society, even outside of the field of science and medicine, is faced with ethical dilemmas every day in which people are forced to take a stance and make difficult decisions. However, the question becomes where do these decisions come from? What are ethics? And is there bias involved in the drawing of these ethical conclusions? Philosophers have been pondering these questions for centuries and ...

In recent decades amputee management has advanced significantly. With the ad­ vent of blood flow studies and new surgical procedures, more knee joints are being saved. Physical therapists, using ad­ vanced facilitation techniques such as pro­ prioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), are better able to restore limb strength, range of motion, and coordina­ tion. Advances in the field of pros...