PURPOSE The goal of this retrospective study was to examine whether utilization of condylar positioning devices in bilateral sagittal split osteotomy leads to long-term benefits for temporomandibular joint function as compared with the manual positioning technique. PATIENTS AND METHODS The joint function of 49 patients (98 joints) who underwent bilateral sagittal split osteotomy or bimaxillar...

The movement of vortices in superconductors due to an applied current can induce a loss of perfect conductivity. Experimental observations show that material impurities can effectively prevent vortices from moving. In this paper, we provide numerical studies to investigate vortex pinning and critical currents through the use of an optimal control approach applied to a variant of the time-depend...

The current research extended the implicit theory approach to a weight management context and merged it with value expectancy theory. Three studies investigated the hypothesis that individuals are especially unlikely to self-regulate effectively after dieting setbacks when they believe body weight to be fixed (entity theory) rather than malleable (incremental theory). Study 1 examined avoidant ...

Objectives. To investigate the correlation between frontal gaps and skeletal stability after intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy (IVRO) for correction of mandibular prognathism. Materials and Methods. Thirty-three patients with frontal gaps after IVRO-based mandibular prognathism correction were included. Three lateral and frontal cephalometric radiographs were obtained: preoperatively (T1), imm...

AIM Relapse is an important issue of concern following operations for mandibular setback. Decreasing the immobilization (IMF) period may play a role in this regard. Usual IMF period ranges from 1 to 2 months. We aimed to assess relapse following a 1-week IMF period. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study aimed to assess 40 purely prognathic patients who had undergone Vertical Ramus osteotomy for ma...

Starches from various botanical origins (rice, maize and potato starches) were cross-linked in the presence of epichlorohydrin (EPI), respectively. Then, the cross-linked starches were further oxidized with sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl, 2.5% w/w) to obtain oxidized cross-linked starches (OCS). The chemically modified methods on the physicochemical properties of different starches were investigate...

The new generation of analgesics and antiinflammatory drugs, namely, the selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase–2 (COX-2) enzymes, popularly known as Coxibs, have become a very popular class of drugs because of their gastro-sparing property. Coxibs were the widely prescribed drugs (nearly 8 million people round the globe take these drugs) until the recent setback with rofecoxib, which was withd...