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Ana-Petra Lazar, Timea Dakó, Anamaria Bud, Alexandru Vlasa, Alina Ormeni?an, Maria-Alexandra Mâr?u, Mariana Pacurar and Lumini?a Lazar
(1) Background: Pain is the most common complaint of patients with fixed orthodontic treatment, especially when applying and activating the orthodontic device. The effectiveness of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) in reducing pain caused by the orthodontic...
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Filip Górski, Dominik Rybarczyk, Radoslaw Wichniarek, Natalia Wierzbicka, Wieslaw Kuczko, Magdalena Zukowska, Roman Regulski, Razvan Pacurar, Dan-Sorin Comsa, Diana-Irinel Baila, Martin Zelenay and Filippo Sanfilippo
This paper presents the outcomes of investigations conducted on the development procedure of a personalized prosthetic device for an adult patient. The individualization is achieved through 3D scanning, followed by semi-automated design using the AutoMed...
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Wai Kit Wong, Jing Qin, Daniel Bressington, Wing Fai Yeung, Ning Liu, Bryan Ying Wai Ho, Surui Liang and Yan Li
Background: Constipation is a functional gastrointestinal disorder that presents with signs and symptoms, which are typically assessed subjectively. Various measurement scales, such as the Constipation Assessment Scale (CAS), are commonly used to evaluat...
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Anna Lichnowska and Marcin Kozakiewicz
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Anna Lichnowska and Marcin Kozakiewicz
The normative functioning of the stomatognathic system and masticatory apparatus requires specific coordination between several structures such as teeth with good occlusion, tongue without ankyloglossia or thrusting, and well-balanced facial muscles. Thi...
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Kang-Lung Lee, An-Min Lynn, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Ling-Yu Yang and Shu-Chiung Chiang
Pediatricians are trained to provide non-surgical medical care to children. Improvements in medical treatments and surgical techniques have extended the survival of children with congenital diseases and chronic illnesses. Consequently, pediatricians may ...
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Felice Festa, Nicla Lopedote, Chiara Rotelli, Massimo Caulo and Monica Macrì
Myofascial pain syndrome is the most common cause of TMD, characterised by trigger points of skeletal muscles in the masticatory region. Patients with myofascial pain suffer from orofacial pain and headaches. Parafunctional activity such as unconscious t...
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Sven Kliesch, Josef Chalupper, Thomas Lenarz and Andreas Büchner
Smartphones are increasingly being used to enable patients to play an active role in managing their own health through applications, also called apps. The latest generation of sound processors for cochlear implants offer Bluetooth connectivity that makes...
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Benedetto Terracini, Daniela Alessi, Elena Isaevska, Vanda Macerata, Corrado Magnani, Milena Manasievska, Milena Maule, Franco Merletti, Maria Luisa Mosso, Tiziana Rosso and Carlotta Sacerdote
In the ?Epikit study? [1], P. Piscitelli with 27 co-authors from 20 scientific institutions estimated the absolute number of hospital admissions for newly diagnosed cancer in people aged 0?19 in Italian provinces and regions in 2007?2011.[...]
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Woo-Jin Han, Jae Joon Hwang, Yun-Hoa Jung, Bong-Hae Cho, Kee-Joon Lee, Hyung-Seog Yu and Sung-Hwan Choi
This study sought to test the feasibility of a newly developed plane called computed modified absolute mandibular midsagittal plane (cmAMP) based on the similarity index (SI) for evaluating the stereoscopical symmetry of the mandible by comparison with o...
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Melissa L. Walls, Kelley J. Sittner, Benjamin D. Aronson, Angie K. Forsberg, Les B. Whitbeck and Mustafa Al?Absi
American Indian (AI) communities experience disproportionate exposure to stressors and health inequities including type 2 diabetes. Yet, we know little about the role of psychosocial stressors for AI diabetes-related health outcomes. We investigated asso...
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Eleonora Ortu, Sara Di Nicolantonio, Samuele Cova, Davide Pietropaoli, Lucia De Simone and Annalisa Monaco
Background: The main objective of this study was to compare the clinical efficacy of two different devices, the Eptamed elastodontic device and a common bite sold in pharmacies, by assessing a computer aid evaluation of patients? surface electromyography...
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Massimiliano Greco, Pier Francesco Caruso, Sofia Spano, Gianluigi Citterio, Antonio Desai, Alberto Molteni, Romina Aceto, Elena Costantini, Antonio Voza and Maurizio Cecconi
Background: Sepsis is one of the major causes of in-hospital death, and is frequent in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED). Early identification of high-risk septic patients is critical. Machine learning (ML) techniques have been propose...
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Quynh C. Nguyen, Tom Belnap, Pallavi Dwivedi, Amir Hossein Nazem Deligani, Abhinav Kumar, Dapeng Li, Ross Whitaker, Jessica Keralis, Heran Mane, Xiaohe Yue, Thu T. Nguyen, Tolga Tasdizen and Kim D. Brunisholz
Collecting neighborhood data can both be time- and resource-intensive, especially across broad geographies. In this study, we leveraged 1.4 million publicly available Google Street View (GSV) images from Utah to construct indicators of the neighborhood b...
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Jae-Hong Choi, Byung Gyu Gil, Yoon-Ji Kim and Dong-Yul Lee
The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible predictors of success of microimplant-assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) in skeletally mature patients. Additionally, factors associated with the amount of maxillary expansion were analyzed....
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Mukesh Soni, Tissa Wijeratne and David Ackland
Video and music as a dissociative attention stimulus during exercise is known to distract from the discomfort of physical exertion and improve exercise adherence; however, the influence of video-based feedback and engagement during pedalling on the perfo...
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Sonali B. Bhanvadia, Manreet S. Brar, Arash Delavar, Kiana Tavakoli, Bharanidharan Radha Saseendrakumar, Robert N. Weinreb, Linda M. Zangwill and Sally L. Baxter
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Blood pressure (BP) dysregulation is a known risk factor, and home-based BP monitoring is increasingly used, but the usability of digital health devices to measure BP among glaucoma patients is not well...
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Tetsuya Yumoto, Hiromichi Naito, Takashi Yorifuji, Yoshio Tahara, Naohiro Yonemoto, Hiroshi Nonogi, Ken Nagao, Takanori Ikeda, Naoki Sato and Hiroyuki Tsutsui
The ?national meeting effect? refers to worse patient outcomes when medical professionals attend academic meetings and hospitals have reduced staffing. The aim of this study was to examine differences in outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac ...
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Francesco Di Gennaro, Claudia Marotta, Damiano Pizzol, Kajal Chhaganlal, Laura Monno, Giovanni Putoto, Annalisa Saracino, Alessandra Casuccio and Walter Mazzucco
Co-infection between malaria and HIV has major public health implications. The aims of this study were to assess the malaria prevalence and to identify predictors of positivity to malaria Test in HIV positive patients admitted to the health center S&atil...
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Harpreet Sohal, Lisa Huddlestone and Elena Ratschen
Introduction: Despite high smoking prevalence and excessive smoking-related morbidity and mortality among people with mental disorder compared to the general population, smoking treatment is often neglected in mental health settings. The UK National Inst...
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