Training in the use of the water jet and cold atmospheric plasma jet for the decontamination of dental implants.

Objectives: Clinical trials testing new devices require prior training on dummies to minimize the "learning curve" for patients. Dentists were trained using a novel water jet device for mechanical cleaning of dental implants and with a novel cold plasma device for surface functionalisation during a simulated open flap peri-implantitis therapy. The hypothesis was that there would be a learning curve for both devices.

Reliability of probing depth assessments at healthy implant sites and natural teeth.

Aim: To evaluate the intra- and inter-examiner reliability in the assessment of probing depth (PD) measurements at healthy dental implant sites and periodontally healthy natural teeth.

Materials And Methods: Five patients exhibiting 21 dental implants were enrolled in the study. Eight experienced examiners performed duplicate PD measurements at six sites of all implants and of preselected natural teeth.

Epidemiology of bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract of humans and domestic pigs.

Bacteria and viruses were analysed in the upper respiratory tract of symptomatic pig farmers and their domestic pigs. Eighty six human nasal and 495 (50 pools) porcine snout swabs were collected in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Staphylococcus (S.

High genetic diversity of porcine enterovirus G in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Between 2012 and 2015, 495 pooled snout swabs from fattening pigs raised in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, were screened for the presence of enterovirus G (EV-G) RNA. Nucleic acids were tested in diverse reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays applying published oligonucleotide primers specific for the viral protein (VP) 1 and 2/4 encoding regions as well as for 3D polymerase. Phylogenetic analyses of VP1 revealed the presence of 12 EV-G types, three of which had highly divergent sequences suggesting putative new types.