introduction: an overlooked but important part of successful root canal treatment is a straight-line access (sla). the purpose of this in vitro study was to compare the efficacy of introfile and prerace rotary instruments with gates glidden (gg) drills in gaining sla by cone-beam computed tomography (cbct). methods and materials: a total of forty five extracted mandibular first molars were sele...

please cite this article as: tabibi a, kashi ah, mirjalili sam, mahmoudnejad n, kashani p, salavatipour b, soltani mh. the possibility of access to the kidneys from posterior axillary line in supine position for percutaneous nephrolithotomy. novel biomed 2013;1(2):43-47. objectives: to evaluate the possibility of access to the kidneys from posterior axillary line (pal) in supine position for pe...

this paper has two objectives. first, it establishes a model for scoring the access to pharmaceutical services. second, it develops a model for measuring socioeconomic indicators independent of the time and place of study. these two measures are used for measuring equity in access to pharmaceutical services using concentration curve. we prepared an open-ended questionnaire and distributed it to...