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Background The 2013 Children's Dental Health survey is the fifth in a series of national surveys.Aims This paper describes children's reported use of dental services, their experience of receiving dental treatment and parental satisfaction with services.Methodology A representative sample of children (aged 5, 8, 12 and…

Strong opinion about reducing vitamin C content in traditional cultivars of fruits and vegetables as a result of intensive farming practices, on the one hand, and depletion of soil, waste of fertilizers, on the other hand, takes place. The aim of the study was to assess changes in vitamin C content in fresh vegetables,…

Multiple species of obligate intracellular bacteria in the genus Chlamydia are important veterinary and/or human pathogens. These pathogens all share similar biphasic developmental cycles and transition between intracellular vegetative reticulate bodies and infectious elementary forms, but vary substantially in their h…

Although ocular tissues involved in aging macula disorder (AMD) were already known in 300 BC, the last type of photoreceptors was discovered only 10 years ago. The earliest descriptions of AMD appeared around 1850. It took over 150 years, till a clearer concept of AMD was formulated and even longer to grasp its pathoph…

Total knee replacement (TKR) procedures have evolved in the last 40 years to guarantee improvements implants life and an excellent joint function. The goals for the future evolutions are make easier prosthesis implantation and promote precision. The demand for TKR will rise for the life length increase and for the risk…

The field of proteomics has made leaps and bounds in the last 10 years particularly in the fields of oncology and cardiovascular medicine. In comparison, neuroproteomics is still playing catch up mainly due to the relative complexity of neurological disorders. Schizophrenia is one such disorder, believed to be the resu…

A history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, whether to find a Northwest Passage, North Pole, or South Pole, is a story of triumph and tribulation. The hardship experienced by polar explorers in the last 1000 years permeates the tales of achievement. Physicians and surgeons have played prominent roles in all major po…

Over the last 30 years, there have been dramatic changes in the way Mycobacterium leprae is studied in the microbiology laboratory. The organism still has not been grown in vitro but, starting with demonstration of growth in the footpads of mice and culminating in the application of molecular biological and genetic tec…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility,auxotype, and plasmid profile of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in China and to provide evidence for the development of treatment guideline and policy for control. METHODS: Agar dilution was used to detect antimicrobial susceptibility. The auxotype was determi…

In split of a dramatic increase of syphilis incidence over the last time, neurosyphilis cases are reported relatively rare. The data on ischemic stroke of syphilis origin in 5 patients (3 males and 2 females, aged 35-43 years) are presented. A diagnosis was verified on the basis of clinical and MRT data and the results…

The choice of vascular access in hemodialysis pediatric patients can be challenging, due to the small diameter of vessels. In the last 19 years, 38 arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) for hemodialysis have been created on 21 patients; 25 of them were radio-cephalic AVF. The evaluation of the vessels was, in the majority of ca…

We present 87 patients with cancer of the nasopharynx treated in the Fundación "Jiménez Díaz" de Madrid, in the last fifteen years. The clinical aspects of the illness, the therapeutic techniques and the results are analyzed. The global survival and the disease free survival at 5 years were 34 and 22% re…

AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) has been known for 5 years. The first few cases in Switzerland were observed in persons infected outside the country, but this has changed in the last 2 years. The infectious agent is transmitted by sexual intercourse and by sharing of blood contaminated needles and syringes o…

A 13-year-old girl was treated with a combination of surgery and radiation for a maxillary chondrosarcoma. Four and one half years later, at the age of 17, she was diagnosed as having an osteosarcoma of the ipsilateral mandible. A recurrence in the contralateral mandible necessitated its removal 5 1/2 years later. Eigh…

In spite of routine screening for HBsAg by a sensitive radioimmunoassay, some cases of posttransfusion hepatitis B still occur. The frequency in the Gothenburg Blood Center is 1 clinical case per 10,000 bloods units transfused. About the same incidence has been noted for clinically overt cases of hepatitis non-A, non-B…

BACKGROUND: Tongue tie or ankyloglossia articles are recorded in the Medline since 1949. OBJECTIVE: To study trends in yearly number of tongue tie or ankyloglossia publications. METHODS: Medline search engine was used to determine the yearly number of published consensus statements from 1949 to 2016. Keywords of tong…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to assess changes in the trend of breast cancer mortality in Navarre, and the effect that a screening programme may have had on these changes. METHODS: A breast cancer screening programme targeting women aged 45-65 years was launched in Navarre in September 1990. Breast cancer deat…

PURPOSE: Diabetes is a big public health threat in Saudi Arabia. However, there is limited evidence about dental problems, oral hygiene practices, and dental visits among diabetic patients. The study aimed to evaluate self-perceived oral health status and patterns of dental attendance among diabetic patients in the Eas…

PURPOSE: This study aims to estimate the efficacy and safety of a new intense pulsed light (IPL) Thermaeye Plus for dry eye disease (DED) secondary to meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD). PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a prospective, longitudinal study of patients with moderate to severe MGD. Treatment consisted of 4 con…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to elucidate the long-term morbidity associated with untreated cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM). METHODS: From a prospectively maintained database of patients with CCM, we assessed functional outcome as measured using the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score at baseline and the l…