Publications by authors named "L M Moda"
Background: Orthodontic retainers are widely used to prevent relapses after orthodontic treatment; however, evidence about patients' perceptions of retainers is lacking.
Objective: To assess patients' perception of orthodontic retainers.
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Article Synopsis
- Lingual spurs are highlighted as a stable treatment option for anterior open bite, but data on their tolerability in kids with mixed and permanent dentition is limited.
- The study aimed to evaluate the effect of lingual spurs on oral health-related quality of life in children and adolescents during their treatment.
- The findings suggest that while there is an initial negative impact on quality of life from using lingual spurs, this effect is temporary, indicating a need for more robust research to confirm these results.
pH-sensitive degradable hydrogels are smart materials that can cleave covalent bonds upon pH variation, leading to their degradation. Their development led to many applications for drug delivery, where drugs can be released in a pH-dependent manner. Crosslinking hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG), a biocompatible building block bearing high end-group functionality, using oxalic acid (OA), a diacid that can be synthesized from CO and form highly activated ester bonds, can generate this type of smart hydrogel.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the honeybee larval stage, queens develop larger brains than workers, with morphological differentiation appearing at the fourth larval phase (L4), just after a boost in nutritional difference both prospective females experience. The molecular promoters of this caste-specific brain development are already ongoing in previous larval phases. Transcriptomic analyses revealed a set of differentially expressed genes in the L3 brains of queens and workers, which represents the early molecular response to differential feeding females receive during larval development.
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