131 research outputs found
Digital work-flow
The project presents a clinical case in which the digital work-flow procedure was applied for a prosthetic rehabilitation in natural teeth and implants. Digital
work-flow uses patientâs photo for the aestheticâs planning, digital smile technology for the simulation of
the final restoration and real time scanning to register the two arches. Than the scanning are sent to the laboratory that proceed with CAD-CAM production. Digital work-flow offers the opportunities to easily speak with laboratory and patients, gives better clinical results
and demonstrated to be a less invasiveness method for the patient. Intra-oral scanner, digital smile design, preview using digital wax-up, CAD-CAM production, are new predictable opportunities for prosthetic team. This
work-flow, compared with traditional methods, is faster, more precise and predictable
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on dentistry: a review of literature.
OBJECTIVE: SARS-CoV-2 is a new Coronavirus identified as the cause of Corona- virus disease in 2019 (COVID-19). The epidemic spread in China and beyond its borders, involv- ing 114 countries with more than 5 million dead. On March 11, the WHO declared the spread of SARS-CoV-2 to be a pandemic and encouraged nations to adopt harsh restrictive measures. Therefore, patients more and more often turn to dental offices only for emergencies. Healthcare professionals, including dentists, are at high in- fectious risk. In fact, the closeness to the oral cavity and nasopharynx and the use of drills or ultrasonic devices that cause aerosol release, make dental professions at high risk of bacterial and viral infections. The way patients are treat- ed has changed. In fact, it should be mandato- ry to carry out a pre-treatment telephone triage and the use of mouthwashes to reduce bacterial load. In the current pandemic, it is necessary to adopt specific safety protocols that can protect dental operators as well as limit the spread of the virus. The purpose of this review is to pres- ent an overview on ways to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 contagion in dentistry by focusing on the immediate situation as well as by look- ing towards the future.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: To reach the review purpose, we selected a series of studies using keywords âCOVID-19â OR âSARS-CoV-2â in association with âdentistryâ AND âsafety proto- colsâ AND âhealthcare proceduresâ AND âindivid- ual protection dispositiveâ AND âair transmissionâ AND âdropletâ. We selected papers exclusively in English language, up to 1st January 2022.
RESULTS: During future phases of the pan- demic, everywhere in the World, it is necessary to impose all dentistry team both a serological screening and the vaccination, as already estab- lished for all health staff in Italy.
CONCLUSIONS: For own safety, it is an import- ant for the whole dentistry category constantly update the devices and the protocols adopted, as well as monitoring the real infectious threats, which may occur
The Medical Care Continuity (MCC) project. A pilot study of video-assisted home care within the eTEN European Community program. The Italian experience
This study aimed to use an integrated system (Medical Care Continuity (MCC) system) consisting of computer, video telephone, and a high-definition camera to monitor at home chemotherapy side effects in cancer outpatients
Hospital Organization and Importance of an Interventional Radiology Inpatient Admitting Service:Italian Single-Center 3-year Experience
In June 2005 a Complex Operating Unit of
Interventional Radiology (COUIR), consisting of an outpatient
visit service, an inpatient admitting service with
four beds, and a day-hospital service with four beds was
installed at our department. Between June 2005 and May
2008, 1772 and 861 well-screened elective patients were
admitted to the inpatient ward of the COUIR and to the
Internal Medicine Unit (IMU) or Surgery Unit (SU) of our
hospital, respectively, and treated with IR procedures. For
elective patients admitted to the COUIRâs inpatient ward,
hospital stays were significantly shorter and differences
between reimbursements and costs were significantly
higher for almost all IR procedures compared to those for
patients admitted to the IMU and SU (Studentâs t-test for
unpaired data, p\0.05). The results of the 3-year activity
show that the activation of a COUIR with an inpatient
admitting service, and the better organization of the patient
pathway that came with it, evidenced more efficient use of
resources, with the possibility for the hospital to save
money and obtain positive margins (differences between
reimbursements and costs). During 3 years of activity, the
inpatient admitting service of our COUIR yielded a positive
difference between reimbursements and effective costs
of âŹ1,009,095.35. The creation of an inpatient IR service
and the admission of well-screened elective patients
allowed short hospitalization times, reduction of waiting
lists, and a positive economic outcome.
Keywords Inpatients Hospitalization Costs
Reimbursement
Three-dimensional evaluation of masseter muscle in different vertical facial patterns: a cross-sectional study in growing children.
Interfacial exchange-coupling induced chiral symmetry breaking of spin-orbit effects
We demonstrate that the interfacial exchange coupling in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic (FM/AFM) systems induces symmetry breaking of the spin-orbit (SO) effects. This has been done by studying the field and angle dependencies of anisotropic magnetoresistance and vectorial-resolved magnetization hysteresis loops, measured
simultaneously and reproduced with numerical simulations. We show how the induced unidirectional magnetic anisotropy at the FM/AFM interface results in strong asymmetric transport behaviors, which are chiral around the magnetization hard-axis direction. Similar asymmetric features are anticipated in other SO-driven phenomenaThis work was supported in part by the Spanish MINECO through Projects No. MAT2012-39308, No. FIS2013-40667-P, No. MAT2011-25598, and No. MAT2014-52477-C5-3-P, and by the Comunidad de Madrid through Project No. S2013/MIT-2850 (NANOFRONTMAG-CM). P.P. and A.B. acknowledge support through the Marie Curie AMAROUT EU Programme, and through MINECO âJuan de la Ciervaâ (JCI-2011-09602) and âRamĂłn y Cajalâ contract
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