conclusions cigarette smoking increased some periodontal indexes including pcr and cal, and reduced bop (p < 0.05). results there was not a significant difference in the prevalence of isolated microorganisms between the smokers and nonsmokers. however, the cigarette smoking group had adverse effect on other periodontal indices including pcr, cal, and bop. the mean pcr and cal were significantly...

purpose: to determine long-term outcomes of probing in adult patients with nasolacrimal duct (nld) obstruction. methods: patients older than 20 years admitted in labaffinejad hospital with complete nasolacrimal duct obstruction were studied. the selected patients underwent probing under local anesthesia and cases with successful nld probing enrolled the study. patients were examined during the ...

statement of problem: the replacement of missing teeth with implant-associated restorations has become a widely used treatment modality in recent years. the length of dental implants may be a critical factor in achieving and maintaining osseointegration. purpose: the aim of this study was to evaluate the survival rate and bone loss of dental implants with different lengths materials and methods...

congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (cnldo) is a common disease in children. the classic treatment of cnldo is probing that was done around one year old. however, controversy exists regarding the outcome of probing in children older than one year. this study aimed to find the cure rate of initial probing for cnldo and identify factors producing the failure rate in old age. in this retrospe...

This summary is organized into four parts. In the first section (News) I discuss the SuperKamiokande results on atmospheric neutrino oscillations, as well as recent results from cosmology. The second section (Refinements) focuses on electroweak tests, recent results in the flavor sector and in probing QCD, as well as searches for new particles. The third section (Mysteries) discusses issues ass...

Deletions in open addressing tables have often been seen as problematic. The usual solution is to use a special mark ’deleted’ so that probe sequences continue past deleted slots, as if there was an element still sitting there. Such a solution, notwithstanding is wide applicability, may involve serious performance degradation. In the first part of this paper we review a practical implementation...

RESULTS: At 6 and 12 months, Class Ie defects tended to reveal higher changes in the mean probing depth (PD) and clinical attachment level (CAL) values when compared with Class Ib and Class Ic groups. However, significant differences were only observed at 6 months (PD: 2.9 +/0.3 versus 1.4 +/0.5 versus 1.3 +/0.7 mm; CAL: 2.5 +/0.5 versus 0.9 +/0.8 versus 0.9 +/0.7 mm). Site-level analysis has p...

We give a unified analysis of linear probing hashing with a general bucket size. We use both a combinatorial approach, giving exact formulas for generating functions, and a probabilistic approach, giving simple derivations of asymptotic results. Both approaches complement nicely, and give a good insight in the relation between linear probing and random walks. A key methodological contribution, ...