Modeling and design of solar + storage-powered community resilience hubs across California.

Distributed clean, reliable energy resources like solar plus battery storage (solar + storage) can reduce harmful emissions while supporting resilience. Solar + storage-powered resilience hubs provide energy for critical services during disasters while increasing human adaptive capacity year round. We studied where utility rates, local climate, and historical injustice make solar + storage resilience hubs more valuable and more challenging.

One palatal implant for skeletal anchorage--frequency and range of indications.

Objective: Aim of this investigation was to analyze the frequency and range of indications of orthodontic treatments using one palatal implant for skeletal anchorage, in a time frame of four years.

Material And Methods: A sample was comprised by viewing retrospectively the patient collective of a specialized university clinic who started orthodontic treatment in the time frame 01/09-12/12. Inclusion criterion was the first application of a superstructure within the investigated period after successful insertion of a palatal implant (Ortho-System®, Straumann, Basel, Switzerland).

Interradicular trabecular bone density of the lateral maxilla for temporary anchorage devices--a histomorphometric study.

Objective: To analyze the interradicular trabecular bone density of the lateral maxilla regarding the insertion of temporary anchorage devices (TADs).

Material And Methods: The material consisted of tissue blocks of autopsy material from 20 subjects (17 male, 3 female, 16 - 63y). The specimens comprised the dentated alveolar bone of the lateral maxilla.

Mechanical loading influences the effects of bisphosphonates on human periodontal ligament fibroblasts.

Objectives: There is increasing evidence that bisphosphonates affect orthodontic tooth movement. The object of the study was to investigate the changes produced by tensile strain on human periodontal ligament fibroblasts (HPdLFs) treated with clodronate or zoledronate.

Materials And Methods: HPdLF were cultured with 5 and 50 μM clodronate or zoledronate for 48 h and applied to tensile strain (TS) (5 and 10 %) for 12 h in vitro.

Age-related changes of fibroblast density in the human periodontal ligament.

Objective: Recently, research has focused intensely on age-related tissue changes, not only in the field of dermatology but also in dental sciences. Although many new insights into age-related morphological, ultrastructural and biochemical changes in the periodontal ligament tissue have been gained, the basic question of whether there is a quantitative change in cell number remains unanswered or, at least to date, unpublished. Thus, the aim of this study was to detect age-related changes of the periodontal ligament regarding fibroblast density.

Apical root resorption during orthodontic treatment with aligners? A retrospective radiometric study.

Introduction: Objective of this study was to investigate the incidence and severity of apical root resorptions (ARR) during orthodontic treatment with aligners.

Materials And Methods: The sample comprised 100 patients (17-75 years of age) with a class I occlusion and anterior crowding before treatment, treated exclusively with aligners (Invisalign®, Align Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA). The following teeth were assessed: upper and lower anterior teeth and first molars.

Induction of IL-6 and MMP-8 in human periodontal fibroblasts by static tensile strain.

Objectives: Mechanical loading is a potential activator of inflammation and able to stimulate factors for periodontal and alveolar bone destruction. Aim of this study was to investigate the inflammatory response and synthesis of proteinases by human periodontal ligament fibroblast (HPdLF) dependent on different strengths of static tensile strain (STS).

Materials And Methods: HPdLFs were loaded with different STS strengths (1, 5, and 10 %) in vitro.

Current state of orthodontic patients under bisphosphonate therapy.

Background: Bisphosphonates are a common medication for the prevention and therapy of osteoporosis, but are also applied for tumor diseases. They affect bone metabolism, and therefore also orthodontic treatments, but how it does has yet not been definitively clarified. Therefore, the aim of this research was to evaluate and demonstrate the reported effects and the current state of scientific research regarding orthodontic treatment and bisphosphonate medication exclusively in humans.

Orthodontic treatment of patients medicated with bisphosphonates-a clinical case report.

Introduction: Bisphosphonates (BP) are an established medication, e.g., for the prevention/therapy of osteoporosis.

Invisalign® treatment in the anterior region: were the predicted tooth movements achieved?

Objective: Based on our previous pilot study, the objective of this extended study was to compare (a) casts to their corresponding digital ClinCheck® models at baseline and (b) the tooth movement achieved at the end of aligner therapy (Invisalign®) to the predicted movement in the anterior region.

Materials And Methods: Pre- and post-treatment casts as well as initial and final ClinChecks® models of 50 patients (15-63 years of age) were analyzed. All patients were treated with Invisalign® (Align Technology, Santa Clara, CA, USA).

A combined prosthodontic and orthodontic treatment approach in a case of growth inhibition induced by dental implants: a case report.

Functional and esthetic results can improve significantly when a combined prosthodontic-orthodontic treatment approach is employed in cases requiring extensive oral rehabilitation. The patient presented in this case report was treated in his late teens with dental implants as a replacement for his maxillary incisors. Ten years later, the entire maxillary anterior segment was in infraocclusion compared to the rest of the dentition and lip line.

Dental compensation for moderate Class III with vertical growth pattern by extraction of the lower second molars.

Objectives: Analysis of the effects and side effects of treatment of patients with moderate skeletal Class III and vertical growth pattern by means of extraction of the second molars in the lower jaw.

Patients And Methods: A total of 20 patients with a mean age of 12.9 years were examined retrospectively.

Accuracy of Invisalign® treatments in the anterior tooth region. First results.

Aim: To analyse (a) to what extent the pretreatment model at the beginning of the treatment corresponds to the initial position in the ClinCheck® and (b) to what extent the predicted treatment result corresponds to the actual result of the therapy at the end of the treatment.

Material And Methods: Pre- and posttreatment models as well as the initial and final position of the ClinCheck with a total of 35 patients aged between 15 and 59 were measured; all of whom were treated by using the Invisalign® technology (Invisalign®, Align Technology, S.C.