Enhanced Pediatric Dental Segmentation Using a Custom SegUNet with VGG19 Backbone on Panoramic Radiographs [PDF]
arXivPediatric dental segmentation is critical in dental diagnostics, presenting unique challenges due to variations in dental structures and the lower number of pediatric X-ray images. This study proposes a custom SegUNet model with a VGG19 backbone, designed explicitly for pediatric dental segmentation and applied to the Children's Dental Panoramic ...
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Factors Associated With Receipt of Preventive Dental Treatment Procedures Among Adult Patients at a Dental Training School in Wisconsin, 2001-2002 [PDF]
, 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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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study introduces polyethylene glycol‐functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to enhance dispersion, interfacial bonding, and 4D printability in polyvinyl chloride‐PCL nanocomposites. The optimized 4D composite (0.5 wt% CNT) achieves a 25% increase in tensile strength, 95.78% shape fixity, and 5‐s recovery time.
Davood Rahmatabadi +6 more
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Dental fear among patients referred to dental offices in Mashhad (Iran)
Journal of Community Health Research, 2014 Background: Dental fear is a major factor in postponing and cancelling a dental appointment. The studies in this field are still limited. The current study was conducted to examine dental fear in patients going to dentists in Mashhad, Iran.
Ahmad Haerian-Ardakani +3 more
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Dental Fear and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Qualitative Study Using YouTube [PDF]
, 2013 Xiaoli Gao +4 more
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Possible Risk Factors for Dental Fear and Anxiety in Children Who Suffered Traumatic Dental Injury. [PDF]
Dent J (Basel), 2023 Kvesić AJ +7 more
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ConFER: A Neurally Constrained Computational Model of Context-Dependent Fear Extinction Recall and Relapse [PDF]
arXivExposure therapy, a standard treatment for anxiety disorders, relies on fear extinction. However, extinction recall is often limited to the spatial and temporal context in which extinction is learned, leading to fear relapse in new settings or after delays. Animal studies offer insights into fear extinction in humans.
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Child Dental Fear : Individual and Family-Level Changes and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life [PDF]
, 2017 The objective of this thesis was to study if dental fear of children and their parents and changes in it are associated, if children and parents can evaluate each other’s fear, and if children’s oral health-related quality of ...
Luoto, Anni
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background There is a growing appreciation of the importance of health and well‐being and of the complex set of factors, within and outside the workplace, that interact to affect the well‐being of workers. Migrant and seasonal farmworkers experience particular challenges, and measurement of factors that influence their health and well‐being is
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