Management of hypertrophic and keloid scars can be difficult. This article presents an initial report on use of a glycerin-based gel sheeting to manage or prevent these scars. The results were comparable to those achieved with silicone sheeting, a typical treatment. Clinically, the glycerin-based sheeting was well tolerated, appeared to be effective, and was less expensive than the silicone she...

BACKGROUND Topical silicone gel sheeting has been used for more than 20 years to help reduce the size of hypertrophic scars and keloids. Its clinical efficacy and safety is well established. OBJECTIVE To determine whether topical silicone gel sheeting can be used to prevent hypertrophic scars and keloids from forming following dermatologic skin surgery. METHODS Patients undergoing skin surg...

This paper focuses on the application of triangulation and rubber-sheeting techniques to the problem of merging two digitized map files. The Census Bureau is currently developing a map merging procedure called conflation. Reproducibility, quality control, and a desire for mathematical consistency in conflation lead to a need for well-defined procedures. The Delaunay triangulation is well-define...

Steel thin-walled beams have been widely used in civil engineering as purlins, ceiling beams or wall substructure beams. There are often planar members such as trapezoidal sheeting or sandwich panels used as roof or wall cladding fastened to the steel beams. The planar members also serve as stabilization of thin-walled beams against buckling due to loss of stability. This paper focuses on probl...

One of the difficulties in building consistent databases comes from mismatches between two digital maps. They are caused by the diversity of database providers and the methodology of map production. Rubber sheeting is one of crucial problems in Geographical Information System, which is a mapping procedure to resolve mismatches between two geographical maps representing the same region with a fe...

BACKGROUND The exact mechanisms of action responsible for the effectiveness of silicone gel dressings are unknown, although it has been proposed that static electricity generated by friction could be the reason for their anti-scarring effects. OBJECTIVE We compared the efficacy of a cushion of silicone filled with liquid silicone gel reported to induce greater negative static-electric charge ...

Silicone thermoplastic sheeting has been used successfully in the management of hypertrophic and keloid scars resulting from thermal burn injuries. A technique is described that incorporates silicone thermoplastic sheeting for fabrication of a compression face mask. This technique combines the moldability of thermoplastic splinting materials with the therapeutic surface of silicone, yielding th...

To date, silicone gel and silicone occlusive plates are the most useful and effective treatment options for hypertrophic scars (surgical and traumatic). Use of silicone sheeting has also been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of minor keloids in association with corticosteroid intralesional infiltration. In our practice, we encountered four problems: maceration, rashes, pruritus and...

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) has over 400,000 traffic signs in its inventory. These signs vary widely by their sheeting grade, age, color, orientation, and proximity to the roadway edge. In a typical year the DOTD replaces about 60,000 of these signs because they are beyond their service life or have been damaged. Currently, the DOTD does not have a systemat...