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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dentist manpower in Taiwan
Journal of Dental Sciences, 2021 Background/purpose: The dentists are the high-risk group of infectious respiratory diseases during dental treatment. This study investigated the changes of the numbers of overall practicing dentists, dental clinics, and hospital dentists in Taiwan during
Feng-Chou Cheng +7 more
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Laser‐Assisted Processing and Modification of Bioactive Glasses: A Review
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Laser technologies provide powerful tools to process and transform bioactive glasses for advanced biomedical applications. This review discusses laser‐matter interaction mechanisms, laser surface engineering, and laser‐assisted fabrication of scaffolds and nanofibers.
Antonio Riveiro +8 more
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Community Efforts to Expand Dental Services for Low-Income People [PDF]
, 2008 Examines low-income patients' limited access to dental care, as well as state and community efforts to expand services, including changing Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program reimbursement rates and licensing laws for preventive ...
Johanna R. Lauer +2 more
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Understanding the Effects of Conductive Polymer Electrode Coating on Recorded Neural Signals
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Conductive polymer coatings are widely explored to improve the quality of signals recorded with chronically implanted neural electrodes, offering enhanced biocompatibility along with reduced electrode impedance. Combining computational modelling and data from PEDOT:PTS coated and PtIr electrodes in rats, we show that improvements in signal quality with
Karthik Sridhar +4 more
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Dentistry JournalThis study aimed to investigate the influence of various patient-specific and bracket location-specific factors on bracket survival rates during comprehensive fixed appliance orthodontic treatment. A total of 197 patients (116 females, 81 males; mean age
Olivier Quinty +3 more
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Senior Dental Students’ Experience with Cariogram in a Pediatric Dentistry Clinic [PDF]
, 2010 The study objective was to assess predoctoral dental students’ experience with a caries risk assessment computer program in the pediatric dentistry clinic at Marquette University School of Dentistry.
Gonzalez, Cesar, Okunseri, Christopher
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Magnetic Ion Channel Activation (MICA) enables remote stimulation of mechanosensitive ion channels using functionalised magnetic nanoparticles, enhancing extracellular vesicle (EV) biogenesis is pre‐osteoblasts. MICA desrived EVs exhibit typical nano‐vesicular characteristics but display superior pro‐osteogeneic activity, promoting mesenchymal stem ...
Afeesh Rajan Unnithan +9 more
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Income and expenditure in private dental clinics in Japan
Japanese Dental Science Review, 2013 Although national dental care expenditure has not changed, the number of dental clinics has increased. Mass media has been reporting on the financial difficulties of dental clinics. To address this issue, we reviewed articles that showed the distribution
Midori Tsuneishi +2 more
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치위생과학회지, 2022 Background: The purpose of this study was to confirm the major motivation for and self-efficacy of career decisions among dental hygiene students and to analyze differences in career decision self-efficacy according to the major motivation.Methods: An ...
Mi-Sook Yoon, Bo-Young Park
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Adult Dental Medi-Cal Cuts: Costs & Consequences [PDF]
, 2008 Outlines the expected impact of the proposal to eliminate California's Medi-Cal dental benefits for adults not in nursing facilities, including loss of federal matching funds, reduced access to dental care, and effects on concomitant health ...
Dana Hughes, Joel Diringer
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