Publications by authors named "Lucian Rusu"
Article Synopsis
- All-ceramic dental restorations offer great aesthetic properties and abrasion resistance similar to enamel, but their brittle structure makes them more susceptible to fractures.
- This in vitro study aimed to compare the fracture resistance and microhardness of four types of ceramics: two hot-pressed and two milled variations, using static loading tests and Vicker’s hardness testing, while applying hydrothermal aging to assess durability.
- Results showed that microhardness decreased with aging, and feldspathic hot-pressed glass-ceramics fractured at lower forces compared to milled zirconia-reinforced glass-ceramics, which managed higher fracture resistance.
Background And Aims: Knowing that diabetes mellitus (DM) often leads to cardiovascular injury such as peripheral artery disease (PAD) of the lower limbs and that some microelements like magnesium (Mg) and Selenium (Se) might be involved in the alterations entailed by these complications, we aimed to investigate the behavior of those microelements in these diseases.
Methods: We studied 114 patients with type 2 DM, treated not with insulin but only by diet or oral antidiabetics, mean aged 56.6 having a mean duration of the diabetes of 14.