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Determinants of oral health literacy among adults aged 45 years and older with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional comparative study

open access: yesBMC Oral Health
Background Oral health literacy (OHL) is important for oral health and self-care among people with diabetes, yet evidence comparing OHL across healthcare settings in Taiwan remains limited.
Chiu-Ling Huang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Associated With Receipt of Preventive Dental Treatment Procedures Among Adult Patients at a Dental Training School in Wisconsin, 2001-2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Background: Gender differences in oral health-related quality of life and the fear of dental pain in seeking and receiving preventive dental care have been recognized and documented. Preventive dental treatment procedures (PDTPs) are commonly accepted as
Bajorunaite, Ruta   +4 more
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Bamboo Medical Application: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review presents a structured classification of bamboo's current use in healthcare. It organizes applications into medical textiles and medical devices, with further divisions based on function and level of invasiveness. It also examines material utilization based on bamboo's structural role, highlighting how it supports both protective and ...
Haymanot Beza Lamesgin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Providing Language Services in Small Health Care Provider Settings: Examples From the Field [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Assesses recent innovations in language service programs and activities at healthcare provider settings with ten or fewer clinicians.
Jane Perkins, Mara Youdelman
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Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
wiley   +1 more source

Non-invasive dentistry method for clinical determination of bleeding time: evaluation in subjects with and without direct oral anticoagulant therapy

open access: yesThrombosis Journal
Assessing bleeding duration in patients on direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) is crucial for evaluating reversal strategies, yet no standardized methods are currently available for clinical trials.
Andreas Pfützner   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the Sierra Health Foundation's Clinic Capacity Building Program: Final Evaluation Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Sierra Health Foundation (Sierra Health) launched the Clinic Capacity Building Program in 2013 as part of the Sacramento Region Health Care Partnership.

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High Humidity Exacerbates Psoriasiform Skin Disease Relapse by Increasing Tissue‐Resident Memory T Cells via Altering Skin Microbiota

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
We demonstrated that high humidity worsened psoriasis relapse in murine psoriasiform skin inflammation by increasing skin‐resident memory CD8+ cells via upregulating IL‐15Rα on keratinocytes. The increases in IL‐15Rα and memory CD8+ cells were attributed to S. nepalensis and its metabolite ADMA in skin exposed to high humidity.
Chun‐Ling Liang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Access to and Affordability of Care in Massachusetts as of Fall 2008: Geographic and Racial/Ethnic Differences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Based on a fall 2008 survey, compares access to and affordability of health care, including prescription drugs and dental care, for adults by geography and race/ethnicity.
Paul B. Masi, Sharon K. Long
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