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What's Happening: December 26, 1984, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Winter 1984-1985), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Winter 1984-1985 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Founders Day/ Alumni Weekend
• Portrait of a President
• Highlights of Founders Day/Alumni Weekend
• Galen S. Young, Sr., DO
• Reunions and Reminiscences
• Sherman Leis, DO
• News from the OMCP
• News from the Alumni Office
• Faculty Notes
• Alumni News Briefs
• In Memoriam
• Coming Events

The Calcitonin Assay And Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 Syndromes: Historical Footnote, Kenneth E. W. Melvin

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2 Syndromes In Japan, Shin-Ichiro Takai, Akira Miyauchi, Hideo Matsumoto, Tatsuro Ikeuchi, Tetsuro Miki, Kanji Kuma, Yuichi Kumahara

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Through nationwide surveys, we collected and analyzed 242 patients of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). Included were 40 patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN-2A), six patients with MEN-2B, and 36 patients with only MTC having a positive family history (82 total patients in the hereditary group). Ten-year survival rates were 81.5% for all cases, and 97.5% and 76.1% for the hereditary and the sporadic group, respectively. Epinephrine/norepinephrine ratio in the urine was found to be a good indicator of the adrenomedullary hyperfunction in patients with hereditary MTC. At least one patient in each family with hereditary MTC had overt …

Speech Results Following Modified Pharyngeal Flap Surgery, Karen S. Zalewski

Masters Theses

It is the purpose of this study to provide a descriptive analysis of 13 patients who have undergone a modified pharyngeal flap surgery completed by one plastic surgeon. Variables associated with the speech of these individuals were based on four measures, including a questionnaire, the Iowa Pressure Articulation Test, the screening portion of the Templin-Darley Test of Articulation, and listener ratings of audio-taped post-surgical speech samples.

Of the eight subject variables studied, two variables were found to be closely associated with speech results. These variables included number of surgeries performed on subjects and number of years in speech therapy. The …

The Role Of The Salivary Glands In Uptake Of Fluoride In Teeth And Bone, Robin E. Vance

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The cariostatic capability of fluoride is generally recognized, in addition, it may also have a beneficial effect on bone. Fluoride is thought to exercise its cariostasis through a local effect on teeth, however, the possibility exists that fluoride exerts its action through a systemic mechanism. Fluoride uptake by rat teeth and its effectiveness as a cariostatic substance was studied in parotidectomized, submaxillariectomized, and totally sialoadenectomized animals (both parotid and submaxillary glands removed). The uptake of fluoride in bone was also quantitated for comparison purposes.

Rats were injected daily with 15 micromoles of fluoride dissolved in 0.1 ml saline. The rats …

Predictions Of The Effects Of Nonsurgical Periodontial Therapy : Prospective And Retrospective Identification Of Deteriorating Sites, Rik Achille Vanooteghem

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Clinicians rely mostly on clinical signs of disease and radiographic information to evaluate the periodontal condition of patients before and after initial, nonsurgical periodontal therapy. The results of their evaluations lead to decisions that determine the need for further periodontal therapy, often surgical, and may also provide guidelines for subsequent dental restorative treatment.

Thirteen subjects with moderate to advanced periodontal disease received oral hygiene instruction and one single episode of root planing. Three experienced clinicians made made[sic] independent predictions in individual tooth sites of the outcome of this initial therapy. They identified sites that in their opinion probably would not …

The Effect Of Discrimination Training On Salt And Sugar Taste Thresholds Of Preschool Children, Susan M. Castine

Masters Theses

Using a single-subject A-B-C-D design, this study examined NaCl and sucrose taste thresholds in water, tomato juice, and milk with four 4-year-old children. Taste thresholds were determined by presenting several concentrations of an adulterant (i.e. NaCl, sucrose) in each vehicle, in blocks of ten trials. Subjects evaluated each taste sample by pressing one of two levers (Yes/No response). Detection threshold was defined as the level at which there was 50% correct responding. During Baseline, subjects received no feedback regarding the accuracy of their response. During the differential reinforcement phase, subjects received reinforcement following each correct response. Results suggested that detection …

Volume 27, Issue 6, Canadian Medical Association

Canadian Journal of Surgery

The mission of CJS is to contribute to the effective continuing medical education of Canadian surgical specialists, using innovative techniques when feasible, and to provide surgeons with an effective vehicle for the dissemination of observations in the areas of clinical and basic science research.

Visit the journal website at http://canjsurg.ca/ for more.

Dr. William D. Sawyer Interview (2) Conducted On October 8, 1984 About The Boonshoft School Of Medicine At Wright State University, William D. Sawyer, James St. Peter

Boonshoft School of Medicine Oral History Project

In this second interview Dr. William D. Sawyer, Dean of the Wright State University School of Medicine, continues his discussion of his background prior to coming to Wright State University. He compares medical education development between Thailand and the United States and his move back from Thailand to Indiana University in the United States. Dean Sawyer then goes on to describe his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Microbiology/Immunology at the School of Medicine at Indiana University.

Dean Sawyer discusses his administrative and leadership style at Indiana University and his challenges as Chairman.

In the third part of the …

What's Happening: October 3, 1984, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Burnout Among Dental Hygiene Educators, Sandra Boggs Ricks

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

A survey was conducted on 159 full-time dental hygiene educators in order to collect data on job satisfaction, morale, and perceived institutional/program effectiveness. Educators were chosen for the study by cluster sampling from two- and four-year accredited dental hygiene programs in the United States. The programs were selected at random from stratified groups according to type of institutional setting. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which contained four major sections: demographic data, job satisfaction, institutional/program effectiveness, and feelings related to their position. Findings were analyzed utilizing contingency tables and Chi-Square analysis. No attempt was made to establish a cause …

What's Happening: September 19, 1984, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: September 5, 1984, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Abstract From Journals (ปกิณกะ : ย่อความจากวารสารต่างประเทศ)

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

(X-Ray Museum) Supernumerary Tooth, Pairat Dhiravarangkura

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Inflammatory And Immunological Aspects Of Noma, Jeerasak Nopakun

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

Noma,which is derived from the Greek meaning the devour or galloping horse gangrene, was known in the times of Hippocrates, Galen and Celsen.(1) Lund(2), who after studying 11 cases of gangrene of the mouth in young children, proposed the name noma (necrosis). Furthermore, it also refered to as gangrenous stomatitis, cancrum oris or in Chiness, dzo-ma-gan (running horse gangrene). (2) Noma is a highly progressive and destructive disease occuring in debilitated person especially children in whom the constitution is altered be bad hygiene and certain infectious diseases. (1,3) It usually begins as a small ulcers of the gingival mucosa. However, …

เทคนิคของการบูรณะฟันด้วยกลาสไอโอโนเมอร์ซีเมนต์, วิทยา พัฒนพีระเดช, วาสนา พัฒนพีระเดช

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

กลาสไอโอโนเมอร์ซีเมนต์ มีใช้ในวงการทันตแพทย์มาเกือบ 10 ปีแล้ว เป็นวัสดุ บูรณะฟันชนิดแรกที่มีแรงยึดทางเคมีกับผิวเคลือบฟันและเนื้อฟัน (Enamel and dentin) ใช้ได้ดีในการบูรณะฟันที่เกิดจากการสึกและกร่อนที่คอฟัน (class V) และฟันหน้าที่เกิด การทางด้านข้างและบริเวณคอฟันใกล้กับขอบเหงือก (class III และ class V) วิธีบูรณะ ที่แนะนําไว้ในบทความนี้ได้มาจากการติดตามผลงานการบูรณะฟันผู้ป่วยของผู้เขียน และ ศึกษาจากผลงานของผู้อื่น การใช้ซีเมนต์ชนิดนี้ด้วยความระมัดระวังทั้งการผสม การนําเข้าไป บูรณะและการขัดจะทําให้การบูรณะประสบผลสําเร็จอย่างดียิ่ง

รายงานผู้ป่วย อะมีโลบลาสติค โอดอนโตมา, วินัย ศิริจิตร, พวงเพชร อิฐรัตน์

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

อะมีโลบลาสติค โอดอนโตมาเป็นเนื้องอกที่มีจุดกําเนิดเกี่ยวข้องกับการเกิดฟัน พบ โรคได้น้อยส่วนมากจะเกิดในเด็ก มีการทําลายกระดูกขากรรไกรอย่างรวดเร็ว ทําให้ใบหน้า ผู้ป่วยผิดปกติไป รายงานผู้ป่วยรายนี้ได้แสดงถึงลักษณะอาการทางคลินิก ภาพรังสี ลักษณะ จุลพยาธิวิทยา การรักษาโรค และการติดตามผลของการรักษาโดยละเอียด

บทรายงานผู้ป่วย การแพ้ยาอมบ้วนปากคลอเฮกซิดีน, อารีย์ เจนกิตติวงศ์

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

รายงานผู้ป่วยที่เกิดปฏิกริยาแพ้ยาอมบ้วนปาก 0.2% คลอเฮกซิดีน ที่ทันตแพทย์ ใช้ในการรักษาไลเคน พลานัส (lichen planus)ในช่องปาก เพื่อผลในการป้องกันการ เกิดแผ่นคราบฟัน รอยโรคที่ปรากฏแสดงการหลุดลอกของเยื่อบุข้างแก้ม เมื่อเช็ดออกจะเป็นแผล สีแดงจัดในบริเวณมิวโคบัคคัลโฟลด์ (mucobuccal fold)มีอาการปวดแสบปวดร้อน แต่ เมื่อหยุดการใช้ยานี้ รอยโรคหายไปหมดในระยะเวลาเพียง 5 วัน

Fractures Of The Facial Skeleton : Faculty Of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University., Somporn Prapanpoch, Yuvaboon Chanchamcharoon, Pairat Dhiravarangkura

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

A review of 580 cases of facial injuries from the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, during 1973-1983 revealed that motorcycle and car accidents were the major causes of facial bone fractures. The male-to-female ratio was 4.3 to 1. The site distribution in descending order of frequency was symphysis, body of the mandible, angle of the mandible, condylar process, zygomatic complex, alveolar process of maxilla and palate. The highest incidence recorded was in the group of patients between the ages of 20 and 29 years. Simple fracture was found to be the most common type of fractures. Most …

Temporomandibular Joint Problem : Report Of Cases., Picharn Chamnannidiadha

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

Pain from mastication can be experienced as a discomfort about the face and mouth induced by function and parafunction of the jaws. Masticatory pain has its source in the temporomandibular joints (TMJs) and/or masticatory muscles, and is therefore, directly related to masticatory functions.The main symptom of the myofascial pain dysfunction (MPD) syndrome is a unilateral dull ache of myofascial origin arising from the so- called myofascial trigger zone, located within a muscle or its tendinous at- tachments.This paper intends to report the management of two cases of idi- opathic facial pains such as TMJ or MPD syndromes, with an added …

Incidence Of Bubbles On Samples Cast In A Phosphate Bonded Investment, Issarawan Boonsiri

Chulalongkorn University Dental Journal

Phosphate bonded investments are widely used in casting the high- fusing alloys. After casting it always have positively cast nodules on the surface of casting, which cause the fitness of the casting on the die. The purpose of this article is examine the effect of a number of investing variable on the incidence of bubbles cast to wax patterns invested in a phasphate bonded investment. The result of this study showed that the minimum number of adherent bubbles may be achieved by machine mixing investments using a high liquid/powder ratio, and by treating wax patterns with debubblilizer prior to investing …

The Effect Of A High Fiber, High Carbohydrate Diet On Blood Sugar Levels Utilizing Traditional Foods Of The Choctaw Indians, Martha Sharp

MSN Research Projects

This was a quasi-experimental study designed to determine the difference in blood sugar levels in subjects diagnosed with diabetes mellitus who received teaching on a high fiber, high carbohydrate diet and subjects diagnosed with diabetes mellitus who did not receive this dietary teaching. The researcher hypothesized that when the blood sugar levels of diabetic Indians who participated in a planned, high fiber, high carbohydrate dietary teaching program were compared to diabetic Indians who participated in the ADA diabetic exchange dietary teaching program and to diabetic Indians who chose not to participate in either teaching program, there would be no significant …

Factors Explaining The Use Of Health Care Services By The Elderly, Paula Diehr, Connie Evashwick

Paula Diehr

The Anderson model of health services utilization, which relates use of service to predisposing, enabling, and need factors, has not often been applied to an elderly population. In this study, the factors of the Andersen model were used prospectively to predict utilization for a population sample of 1,317 elderly persons. Taken alone, the NEED construct was the most important single predictor of use of physician services, hospitalizations, ambulatory care, and home care. PREDISPOSING factors were better predictors of the use of dental services. Some of the variables studied were not related to utilization in the direction that would have been …

Effects Of Dentin Chips, Hydroxyapatite, And Demineralized Dentin As Apical Plugs, D. Wylie Brandell

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Two mm plugs of demineralized dentin, hydroxyapatite, or dentin chips were condensed into the apical perforations of 48 anterior teeth of eight adult cynamolgus monkeys. The remainder of the canals were obturated with gutta percha and Grossmans sealer using lateral condensation technique. The degree of hard tissue formation and inflammation was evaluated at three and six months. No significant changes were noted between various materials at three months. However, after six months, the samples with apical plugs of hydroxyapatite had more hard tissue formation and less inflammation than others.

Force Relaxation In Matched Light Titanium And Stainless Steel Wires, Granville Gene Wilson

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Force relaxation was constantly monitored in light titanium alloy and stainless steel wires over a 7 day period in a simulated use test. The smallest dimension of round titanium wires now available were matched with round stainless steel wires in dimensions that most closely approximated the same stiffness. The .016" NITINOL (Unitek) and TITANAL (Lancer Pacific) wires were compared to .012" Standard Permachrome (Unitek) wire. The .016" TMA (Ormco) wire was compared to .014" Standard Permachrome (Unitek) wire. Six samples were tested for each wire type.

Each wire was ligated with Alastic modules (Unitek) into .018" x .025" slots of …

A Comparison Of Enamel Detachments After Debonding Between Unitek's "Dynalok" Bracket And A Foil-Mesh Bracket: A Scanning Electron Microscope Study, Robert E. Meister

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The intent of this paper was to: 1. Evaluate the mode of adhesive failure when debonding both flexible and rigid base orthodontic brackets. 2. Evaluate the bracket bases for enamel detachments. 3. Measure the enamel detachments.

After preforming shear test on flexible and rigid base orthodontic brackets mounted to extracted human teeth it was determined that failure occurred at the enamel/adhesive interface 30% of the time, at the bracket/adhesive interface 10% of the time and a combination of these 60% of the time for both groups.

Five brackets from each group were evaluated for enamel detachments using energy dispersive x-ray …

Orthodontists' Attitudes Toward Expanding Career Opportunities For The Dental Hygienist In Orthodontics, Julie A. Foster

Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this survey was to determine attitudes of orthodontists toward employing dental hygienists. A self-designed, 33 item questionnaire was used to obtain descriptive data. The questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of orthodontists chosen from the United States portion of the Orthodontic Directory of the World (N=500). Data were obtained from 298 orthodontists for a 58.6 percent response rate.

The study suggests that although orthodontists believe dental hygienists are important oral health professionals (96.2 percent) and important parts of the orthodontic practice (32.6 percent), only 10.9 percent of orthodontists surveyed employ dental hygienists. Factors determined to be …

1984 Commencement For College Of Allied Health Sciences

Jefferson College of Nursing Commencements

No abstract provided.