introduction: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (apdt) and low level laser therapy (lllt) on wound healing, pain intensity, swelling problems, halitosis and the postoperative usage of analgesics after surgical removal of lower third molars. methods: one hundred and fifty patients, randomly divided into three groups were selected (50 per each group)...

purpose : to evaluate the role of orthoptic treatments in the management of intermittent exotropia methods : in a retrospective study, clinical records of patients diagnosed with intermittent exotropia were reviewed. patients with basic, convergence insufficiency (ci) and divergence excess (de) types of intermittent exotropia who underwent orthoptic treatments were enrolled. office treatments i...

thyroid cancer, the most common endocrine malignancy worldwide, originates from follicular epithelial cells. it is classified as a well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (wdtc), which includes both follicular (ftc) and papillary types (ptc), poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas (pdtc), anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (atc), and/or arising from para-follicular calcitonin producing cells involve m...

conduct disorders are a group of behavior disorders in which the basic rights of others or major age appropriate social norms or rules are violated. to evaluate the factors influencing childhood conduct disorders, we reviewed records of 43 cases (84% boys, mean age 11 years) referred to shahid esmaili psychiatric hospital, tehran. all patients fulfilled diagnostic criteria of dsmiv. 15 variable...

background and aims. the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of adjunctive photodynamic therapy (pdt) in the treatment of aggressive periodontitis. materials and methods. a total of 24 patients with clinical diagnosis of aggressive periodontitis received scaling and root planing (srp) for periodontal treatment. in a split-mouth design study, the teeth of one quadrant of each arch...

objective: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) in preschoolers usually decreases their academic performance and disrupts parent-child interactions. the present study aimed at evaluating the effect of localized play therapy on preschoolers with adhd. methods: the research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and control group. using a multi-stage random sampli...

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conclusions presence of drug resistance mutations among the patients was significant. precore mutations were common amongst iranian hbv chronic carriers under lamivudine therapy and these mutations were accompanied by clinical relapse. patients and methods sequential sera were obtained from 88 chronic hbv carriers who received lamivudine for more than 24 months. polymerase and precore regions w...