Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia: report of a case documented with clinical,radiographic, biochemical and histological findings

Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia (FCOD) has been described as a condition that characteristically affects the jaws of middle-aged black women. This condition has also been classified as gigantiform cementoma, chronic sclerosing osteomyelitis, sclerosing osteitis, multiple estenosis and sclerotic cemental masses. It usually exhibits as multiple radiopaque cementum-like masses distributed throughout the jaws. Radiographically, FCOD appears as dense, lobulated masses, often symmetrically located in various regions of the jaws. Computed tomography, because of its ability to give axial, sagittal, and frontal views, is useful in the evaluation of these lesions. This article reports the case of a 45-year-old white man who was diagnosed with FCOD on the basis of clinical, radiographic, biochemical and histological findings. It is of major importance to realize that all dentists have a unique opportunity as well as ethical obligation to assist in the struggle against wrong dental treatments that might save patients dental health. This case report illustrates the point that periapical radiolucencies may represent benign fibro-osseous lesions that may be overlooked or result in unnecessary endodontic treatment

Follow-Up During Early Infancy of Newborns Diagnosed with Subcutaneous Fat Necrosis

Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn (ScFN) is an uncommon condition caused by generalized and/or local tissue hypoperfusion. The skin lesions of ScFN tend to improve spontaneously. However, ScFN may also lead to complications which cause serious problems. The severity of the etiologic factors contributing to the development of the disease determines the severity of complications. Therefore, these patients should be closely monitored for complications, especially for hypercalcemia which may be life-threatening. The severity and duration of hypercalcemia are associated with the extensity of skin lesions

Multicenter study of pars plana vitrectomy for optic disc pit maculopathy: MACPIT study

Purpose To evaluate surgical intervention with pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for correction of optic disc pit maculopathy (ODP-M). Patients and methods Retrospective chart review from 13 centres of 51 eyes of 50 patients with ODP-M who underwent PPV between 2002-2014. Anatomic and final best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) outcomes were evaluated for all cases with different adjuvant techniques. Results There were 23 males and 27 females with median age 25.5 (6-68) years. Preoperative median foveal thickness was 694.5 (331-1384) mu m and improved to 252.5 (153-1405) mu m. Median BCVA improved from 20/200 (20/20000 to 20/40) to 20/40 (20/2000 to 20/20) with 20/40 or better in 31 eyes. Complete retinal reattachment was achieved in 44 eyes (86.3%) at 7.1 (5.9) months. The good surgical outcomes were achieved in different adjuvant groups. Median follow-up was 24 (6 to 120) months. Conclusions These results confirm the long-term effectiveness of PPV for ODP-M. Prospective studies are needed to determine the effectiveness of any adjuvant technique in improving the success of PPV for ODP-M

A Research on Writing Skills of Fifth Grade Students on Concrete and Abstract Subjects

Yazılı anlatım, bireyin kendini doğru ve amacına uygun olarak ifade etmesinde ve iletişim kurmasında en etkili araçlardan biridir. Yazma becerisinin istenen düzeye getirilmesinde yazma konusunun kişiye ifade ettiği anlam önemli bir yer tutar. Seçilen konular, öğrencinin daha iyi anlamlandırabildiği, ön bilgisinin olduğu, yorum yapabildiği, örnekleyebildiği, ilgi alanına giren ve günlük hayatında çokça karşısına çıkan konulardan olduğunda öğrencinin daha rahat yazması beklenmektedir. Ancak günlük hayatın içinden olsa bile somut ve soyut kavramların öğrenciler tarafından algılanması farklılık göstermektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı somut dönemden soyut döneme geçiş sürecindeki beşinci sınıf öğrencilerinin somut ve soyut konularda yazma becerilerini kelime ve cümle sayısı, cümle uzunluğu, düşünceyi geliştirme yolları ve tür bakımından karşılaştırmaktır. Bu amaçla, Adana ili Yumurtalık Ortaokulunda okuyan 32 beşinci sınıf öğrencisine somut ve soyut konularda kompozisyon yazdırılmış ve elde edilen metinler doküman analizi yoluyla incelenmiştir. Araştırmada öğrencilerin soyut konulardaki kelime ve cümle sayılarının somut konulara göre daha fazla olduğu ancak kullanılan farklı kelime sayısının ve ortalama cümle uzunluklarının somut konularda arttığı tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin düşünceyi geliştirme yollarını somut konularda daha çok kullandıkları; somut konularda en çok benzetmeye, soyut konularda ise örneklemeye yer verdikleri belirlenmiştir. Somut konularda en çok tercih ettikleri edebî tür deneme iken soyut konularda en çok hikâye türünde yazmışlardır.Written expression is one of the most effective tools that an individual may apply to express himself/herself in a proper and relevant way to the purpose. The meaning of a writing subject to a person takes an important place in bringing writing skills to the desired level. When selected topics are among those that students can make sense, make comments on, exemplify, have foreknowledge about and those which are within their interest and often encountered in their daily lives, it is expected that a student writes more comfortably. However, the perception of abstract and concrete subjects by students differs from each other even they are selected from daily life. The purpose of this research is to compare writing skills of fifth grade students, who are in the process of passing from the concrete stage to abstract stage, in terms of number of words and sentences, sentence length, methods to develop the idea and genres. For this purpose, 32 fifth grade students from Yumurtalık Secondary School in the province of Adana were asked to write compositions on concrete and abstract subjects and the collected texts were examined through document analysis. In the research, it was detected that the numbers of students' words and sentences in abstract subjects were more in comparison with concrete subjects but the number of different words used and the average sentence length increased in concrete subjects. It was determined that the students employed methods to develop their ideas mostly in concrete subjects; they mostly included metaphors in concrete subjects, on the other hand, they mostly included exemplifications in abstract subjects. The literary genre that they mostly preferred on concrete subjects was essay, whereas story was the genre mostly written on abstract subjects

Genetic variation in some seedling characteristics of Bornmullerian Fir (Abies bornmülleriana mattf.)

In this study, it was determined that genetic diversity on some juvenile seedling and two-year-old seedling characteristics of totally 100 families from 5 populations (20 for each one) sampled from natural distribution area of Bornmullerian Fir. Also for the purpose of comparison of the results one population of Nordmann Fir (Abies nordmanniana Stev.) and one population of Taurus Fir (Abies cilicica Kotschy.), 20 families from each one were included in the study. The experiment was established in İlyakut/Ankara Forest Nursery under open field conditions. Cotyledon number (KS), epicotyl (EB) and hypocotyl length (HB) of juvenile seedlings and seedling height (FB), root collar diameter (KBC), timing of bud set (TB) and bud flushing (TP) of two-year-old seedlings were measured and observed. In this context, individual and family heritabilities, some genetic parameters and genetic and phenotypic correlations between characters were estimated. According to the results obtained, differences between families within the populations were important in terms of all properties of the two-year-old seedlings however differences between populations for root collar diameter and timing of bud set were insignificant. And also insignificant differences between the species were found in terms of these two characters. At the same time middle and high level individual and family heritabilities [0.09(KS) < hi2 < 0.193 (FB); 0.201 (KS) < hf2 < 0.529 (EB)] were estimated for all juvenile and two-year-old seedling traits