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The Zinc Status Of Pregnant Vegetarian Women, Michelle J. Abu-Assal
The Zinc Status Of Pregnant Vegetarian Women, Michelle J. Abu-Assal
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The zinc status of twelve lacto-ovo-vegetariah pregnant women and seventeen non-vegetarian pregnant women was evaluated. Zinc intakes were calculated from three-day dietary records and twenty-four hour dietary histories. Plasma zinc levels were drawn during the last trimester of pregnancy and approximately ten weeks postpartum. Gestational age at birth, birthweight, and APGAR scores of the infants born were obtained from the medical charts. Dietary zinc intakes for the vegetarians (10.5 ± 4.0 mg) did not differ significantly from the intakes of the non-vegetarians (10.9 ± 3.0 mg). The vegetarian last trimester plasma zinc levels (47.9 ± 12.4 mcg/dl) and postpartum plasma …
Dynamic In-Patient Therapy: A Team Approach, Le Van Cao
Dynamic In-Patient Therapy: A Team Approach, Le Van Cao
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The paper reports on the philosophy and clinical results of an individualized but concentrated team approach to hospitalized patients undergoing a psychological crisis. The team focuses on the patient’s key vital coping technique as the source of his vulnerability and assists the patient toward constructive self-understanding. The approach favors maximum therapeutic benefit from a short hospital stay. Follow-up of the first fifteen cases managed by this method discloses a significantly low percentage of relapse and rehospitalization, and demonstrates that even such relapses can be turned to therapeutic benefit.
Mandibular Repositioning With Frankel Appliance Therapy, Clark E. Schneekluth
Mandibular Repositioning With Frankel Appliance Therapy, Clark E. Schneekluth
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
A sample of twelve Frankel appliance (FR-2) treated patients, in the mixed dentition stage, were selectively chosen by an orthodontist based on the Class II correction and evaluated from before treatment and end of treatment laminagraphic and lateral cephalometric radiographs. The average treatment period was 22 months (1 yr. 10 mos.). The average pre-treatment age was 9.5 years with a range from 8 to 11 years old, while the average post-treatment age was 11.3 years with a range of 10 to 13 years.
Frankel appliance therapy was the only form of mechanics used in this study.
The before treatment lateral …