The impact of laminate veneer restoration on oral health-related quality of life: A case series study

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Laminate veneer restorations exhibit excellent ability to reproduce the natural teeth regarding esthetic and biomechanics. The aim of the present study was to determine the impact of laminate veneers on oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL). METHODS: In this case series study, the impact of treatment on OHQol was measured using the standard questionnaire OHIP-14. This tool was applied to 19 patients who visited the private office of restorative and cosmetic specialist before and six months after treatment. RESULTS: The maximum score recorded by Oral Health Impact Profile-14 was 34 before treatment, with 31 after treatment. The average score decreased from 13.1 ± 9.44 (before treatment) to 12 ± 10.6 (after treatment). Comparison of the frequencies of patient’s responses to OHQoL suggested that changes in OHQoL for question number 4 (uncomfortable to eat food) and question number 9 (difficult to relax) were significant, respectively (P = 0.03, P = 0.02) and for question number 10 (feeling embarrassed) were nearly significant (P = 0.07). Nineteen subjects in this study exhibited improvement in OHQoL. CONCLUSION: Esthetic dental treatment using laminate veneers would significantly affect OHQoL enhancement in some aspects. KEYWORDS: Oral Health; Quality of Life; Cosmetic Dentistry; Laminate Venee

New general extensions of Chebyshev type inequalities for Sugeno integrals

AbstractWe provide new frameworks of Chebyshev type inequalities for Sugeno integrals on abstract spaces

Further development of Chebyshev type inequalities for Sugeno integrals and T-(S-)evaluators

summary:In this paper further development of Chebyshev type inequalities for Sugeno integrals based on an aggregation function $H$ and a scale transformation $\varphi$ is given. Consequences for T-(S-)evaluators are established

The impact of laminate veneer restoration on oral health-related quality of life: A case series study

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Laminate veneer restorations exhibit excellent ability to reproduce the natural teeth regarding\ud esthetic and biomechanics. The aim of the present study was to determine the impact of laminate veneers on oral\ud health-related quality of life (OHQoL).\ud METHODS: In this case series study, the impact of treatment on OHQol was measured using the standard questionnaire\ud OHIP-14. This tool was applied to 19 patients who visited the private office of restorative and cosmetic specialist before\ud and six months after treatment.\ud RESULTS: The maximum score recorded by Oral Health Impact Profile-14 was 34 before treatment, with 31 after treatment.\ud The average score decreased from 13.1 ± 9.44 (before treatment) to 12 ± 10.6 (after treatment). Comparison of the frequencies\ud of patient’s responses to OHQoL suggested that changes in OHQoL for question number 4 (uncomfortable to eat food) and\ud question number 9 (difficult to relax) were significant, respectively (P = 0.03, P = 0.02) and for question number 10 (feeling\ud embarrassed) were nearly significant (P = 0.07). Nineteen subjects in this study exhibited improvement in OHQoL.\ud CONCLUSION: Esthetic dental treatment using laminate veneers would significantly affect OHQoL enhancement in\ud some aspects

Useful tools for non-linear systems: Several non-linear integral inequalities

a b s t r a c t Integral inequalities play important roles in classical probability and measure theory. Universal integrals provide a useful tool in many problems in engineering and non-linear systems where the aggregation of data is required. We discuss several inequalities including Hardy, Berwald, Barnes-Godunova-Levin, Markov and Chebyshev for a monotone measure-based universal integral. Some recent results are obtained as corollaries. Finally, we provide some applications of our results in intelligent decision support systems, estimation and information fusion. Crow