Digital transformation: analog expertise and digital optimization.

Digital tools now enable an effective and efficient workflow even for complex implant-prosthetic restorations such as the immediate restoration of the edentulous maxilla. Planning predictability due to high process reliability, time saving, cost reduction due to shortened therapy sequences, high patient satisfaction due to predictable results, and high patient comfort are the advantages of the digitally supported therapy phases - from digital volume tomography of the bony structures to planning software to CAD/CAM-generated temporaries and prototypes to all-ceramic restorations. However, the use of digital procedures and techniques alone is no guarantee for a successful, indication-appropriate, and patient-specific restoration.

[A conventional three-unit bridge in the esthetic area].

In the prosthetic treatment planning there is an important question either you will have an surgery procedure or you will solve the requirement with a conventional treatment. It requires the discussion with the patient of all different parameters like risk factors in the pink - and white esthetic, condition of the adjacent teeth, outcome, long-term stability, costs, etc. In consideration of all facts a decision must be made of which adequate therapy is feasible.

Pentacene thin-film transistors encapsulated by a thin alkane layer operated in an aqueous ionic environment.

The encapsulation of pentacene thin-film transistors (TFTs) by a 50 nm thick layer of a long chain alkane (C₄₄H₉₀) enables the operation in an aqueous solution of 1 mM NaCl. It is the first time that pentacene TFTs operate successfully in a liquid environment. This opens new perspectives for biocompatible sensor devices based on pentacene TFTs.