Digital Workflows in Implant Dentistry Utilizing Intraoperative CT Scanning.

Many digital workflows have been utilized in the past few years in the acquisition of implant positions for full arch implant positions intraoperatively and postoperatively. The goal of the different workflows is to offer speed, precision, and predictability. This study outlines the steps for an innovative fully digital full arch workflow that ensures predictable and fast outcomes using digital tools available in most dental implant centers.

Pre-surgical factors related to latent trajectories of 5-year weight loss for a diverse bariatric surgery population.

Background: Analyzing trajectories of weight loss may address how particular groups of patients respond to metabolic and bariatric surgery.

Objectives: The Bariatric Experience Long Term (BELONG) study was designed to use a theoretical model to examine determinants of weight loss and recurrence.

Setting: Large integrated health system in Southern California with 11 surgical practices and 23 surgeons.

Baseline Psychosocial, Environmental, Health, and Behavioral Correlates of 1- and 3-Year Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.

Purpose: Weight loss surgery is an effective, long-term treatment for severe obesity but individual response to surgery varies widely. The purpose of this study was to test a comprehensive theoretical model of factors that may be correlated with the greatest surgical weight loss at 1-3 years following surgery. Such a model would help determine what predictive factors to measure when patients are preparing for surgery that may ensure the best weight outcomes.

Draft Genome Sequences of Marine Bacteria, Degraders of the Sulfated Polysaccharide Ulvan, Extracted from a Green Alga, Ulva meridionalis.

We present the draft genome sequences of bacterial strains of the genera and . Polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs) were found in all of the ulvan utilizers. Comparison of the PULs will elucidate the degradation pathway for ulvan.

Neighborhood deprivation and residential property values do not affect weight loss at 1 or 3 years after bariatric surgery.

Objective: This study examined the association between individual- and neighborhood-level sociodemographic factors and surgical weight loss at 1 year (short term) and 3 years (long term).

Methods: Data were obtained from the baseline survey of the BELONG (Bariatric Experience Long Term) prospective longitudinal cohort study. Individual-level self-reported data on sex, race and ethnicity, education, and household income were obtained by survey.