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Increased Risk of Tooth Loss in Postmenopausal Women With Prevalent Vertebral Fractures: An Observational Study

JBMR Plus, 2023
The association between prevalent fractures and tooth loss in postmenopausal women remains unclear. Herein, we investigated the association between prevalent vertebral and nonvertebral fractures, the number of teeth present at baseline, and the number of
Akira Taguchi, Tomohiko Urano, Yukio Nakamura, Masataka Shiraki   +3 more
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Dental pathology of the wild Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus): The study of a 20th century Portuguese museum collection

Veterinary and Animal Science, 2020
For some wild canids, such as the Iberian wolf, there is a lack of in-depth knowledge about dental pathology. We aimed to evaluate it, in a standardized manner, in specimens from a Portuguese museum collection.Sixty-five deceased specimens of wild ...
AE Pires, IS Caldeira, F Petrucci-Fonseca, I Viegas, C Viegas, C Bastos-Silveira, JF Requicha   +6 more
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Osteocytes and mechanical loading: The Wnt connection [PDF]

, 2019
Bone adapts to the mechanical forces that it experiences. Orthodontic tooth movement harnesses the cell‐ and tissue‐level properties of mechanotransduction to achieve alignment and reorganization of the dentition.
Ahn Y, Balemans W, Cui Y, Fu HD, Gong Y, Harris SE, Leupin O, Lim WH, Little RD, Loots GG, Niziolek PJ, Odagaki N, Ohazama A, Poole KE, Robling AG, Sawakami K, Saxon LK, Semenov M, Tu X, Van Wesenbeeck L, Zhao L, Zong Y   +21 more
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Dental disorders in sows from Swedish commercial herds

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2020
Knowledge on dental disorders in commercial sows is limited although such conditions may have important animal welfare implications. In a pilot study, the dental and periodontal health of 58 sows (Landrace*Yorkshire-crosses) from 8 Swedish commercial pig
Anna Malmsten, Nils Lundeheim, Anne-Marie Dalin   +2 more
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Periodontitis and the Elderly: An Overview of the Disease and its Impact on an Aging Population [PDF]

, 2019
Periodontitis affects millions of Americans each year, and is especially prevalent among the elderly. Since periodontitis is a chronic, progressive condition, uninterrupted disease progression leads to irreversible oral damage; therefore, periodontitis ...
Weissenfluh, Nicole Grace
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The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant [PDF]

, 2017
The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period - Neandertals and Homo sapiens ...
Agha, Nuha, Barash, Alon, Barzilai, Omry, Been, Ella, Benazzi, Stefano, Ekshtain, Ravid, Greenbaum, Noam, Hovers, Erella, Hublin, Jean-Jacques, Levin, Lihi, Malinski-Buller, Ariel, Mayer, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef, Mitki, Netta, Nir, Nadav, Oxilia, Gregorio, Porat, Naomi, Rak, Yoel, Roskin, Joel, Shahack-Gross, Ruth, Soudack, Michalle, Stahlschmidt, Mareike C., Yeshurun, Reuven   +21 more
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An Innovative Approach for Management of Vertical Coronal Fracture in Molar: Case Report

Case Reports in Dentistry, 2012
Unlike anterior teeth, acute exogenous trauma is an infrequent cause of posterior coronal vertical tooth fractures. Endodontic and restorative management of such fractures is a great challenge for the clinician.
Ambica Kathuria, M. Kavitha, P. Ravishankar   +2 more
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A novel regenerative endodontic procedure in a traumatized immature tooth using amniotic membrane

Dental Research Journal, 2021
Tooth nonvitality is one of the frequently seen consequences of dental trauma that causes the arrest of root development. Amniotic membrane has received a lot of attention for its use in transplantation and regeneration procedures. This article reports a
Ellana Jermiah Joseph, Mahabala Y Karuna, Arathi Rao, Ashwin Rao, Anupama P Nayak   +4 more
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3D-printing techniques in a medical setting : a systematic literature review [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Three-dimensional (3D) printing has numerous applications and has gained much interest in the medical world. The constantly improving quality of 3D-printing applications has contributed to their increased use on patients.
Annemans, Lieven, Gemmel, Paul, Tack, Philip, Victor, Jan   +3 more
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SNX10 gene mutation leading to osteopetrosis with dysfunctional osteoclasts [PDF]

, 2017
Acknowledgements We sincerely thank the patients and family members who participated in this study. We would also like to thank Stefan Esher, Umeå University, for help with genealogy, and Anna Westerlund for excellent technical assistance.
Ameur, Adam, Coxon, Fraser P., Dahl, Niklas, Hallmans, Göran, Helfrich, Miep H., Henning, Petra, Kellgren, Therese G., Klar, Joakim, Lerner, Ulf H., Lönnerholm, Torsten, McDermott, Emma, Rydén, Patrik, Sandström, Per-Erik, Stattin, Eva-Lena, Stecksen-Blicks, Christina, Wikström, Johan   +15 more
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