The construction of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual has been guided primarily by concerns of construct validity rather than of clinical utility, despite claims by its authors that the highest priority has in fact been clinical utility. The purpose of this article was to further articulate the concept and importance of utility when constructing and evaluating a diagnosti...

Implant surgery complications are frequent occurrences in dental practice and knowledge in the management of these cases is essential. The aim of this review was to highlight the challenges of treatment plan-related, anatomy-related, and procedure-related surgical complications as well as to discuss the etiology, management and treatment options to achieve a satisfactory treatment outcome.

This article provides a step-by-step procedure for producing radiographic stents. Two common treatment scenarios are explored.

Radiation therapy treatments have become increasingly more complicated. There are multiple opportunities for humans, machines, software, and combinations thereof to result in a treatment error that could be of significance. Current methods for quality assurance are often abstract in nature and may have unclear underlying assumptions as to what is assumed to be working correctly, or may depend u...

Various classification systems of partially edentulous arches have been proposed from time to time to the profession. However a universally acceptable classification system which helps in visualization, communication and plan treatment for such situation is an ideal goal. Different systems proposed till date has certain advantages and disadvantages and limitations. This paper gives a review on ...

A case of a 3-year-old, white female with odontodysplasia is presented. Histological considerations and the rapid development of an infraorbital infection in this case encourage the practitioner to pursue a more aggressive treatment plan than might otherwise be considered.

The primary factor that determines the success of implant is the amount of available bone in the edentulous site. Diagnostic imaging and techniques help to develop and implement a cohesive and comprehensive treatment plan according to the available bone. In the following case report an innovative simplified method (poor man CT) is used to fabricate a three dimensional model to assess the availa...

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BACKGROUND In Australia people with a diagnosed chronic condition can be managed on unique funded care plans that allow the recruitment of a multidisciplinary team to assist in setting treatment goals and adequate follow up. In contrast to the World Health Organisation, the North American and European Medical Associations, the Australian Medical Association does not recognise obesity as a chron...

Cancer poses a considerable economic burden to healthcare systems worldwide, so healthcare payers will only pay for “performance” in the future. It is likely that new “wonders” have emerged and as a scientific community we need to learn how we can make future cancer research more efficient. Biobanking and imaging platforms will allow full use of this wealth of data for defining and testing hypo...