Human Histologic Evaluations of the Use of Er,Cr:YSGG Laser to Decontaminate an Infected Dental Implant Surface in Preparation for Implant Reosseointegration.

This investigation was designed to evaluate the reestablishment of bone-to-implant contact on infected dental implant surfaces following decontamination with an erbium, chromium:yttrium-scandium-gallium-garnet (Er,Cr:YSGG) laser and reconstructive therapy. Three patients presenting with at least one failing implant each were enrolled and consented to treatment with the Er,Cr:YSGG laser surface decontamination and reconstruction with a bone replacement allograft and a collagen membrane. The laser treatment was carried out at a setting of 1.

Human Histologic Evaluations of Implants with a Unique Triangular Neck Design.

The goal of the present study was to evaluate human histologic healing of dental implants with a unique triangular neck design that is narrower than the implant body. Four patients in need of full-mouth reconstruction were recruited and received several implants to support a full-arch prosthesis. In each patient, two additional customized reduced-diameter implants were placed, designated to be harvested after 6 months of submerged healing.

Human Clinical and Histologic Evaluations of Laser-Assisted Periodontal Therapy with a 9.3-μm CO² Laser System.

This investigation was designed to evaluate the healing response of 9.3-μm CO laser-assisted periodontal therapy. Five patients presenting with moderate to severe periodontitis, with an initial pocket depth (PD) ≥ 5 mm and with teeth predetermined to be surgically extracted, were enrolled and consented to treatment with full-mouth CO laser-assisted therapy.

[Some observations on therapy efficacy in a sample of 111 patients suffering from ankylosing spondylarthritis, assisted in the Clinic of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Iaşi].

Unlabelled: The authors present the results of some evaluations on the efficiency of pharmacologic therapy for 111 pacients suffering from ankylosing spondylarthritis (AS).

Results: The pacients have been assisted for five years in a specialized hospital. 63.

[Multidisciplinary prospective epidemiological research regarding the prevalence of ankylosing spondilytis, comparatively in Romania and Iasi County, between 1990-2006].

Unlabelled: During the period of study, the prevalence of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) cases values varied between 5.65% per hundred thousand in 1994 and 3.96 in 1999.

[Retroprospective clinical epidemiological research on leptospirosis cases hospitalised in the Infectious Diseases Clinic of Iaşi].

Material And Method: Analytical assessment was performed for a sample of 499 patients admitted in the Infectious Diseases Clinic of Iasi, in order to highlight some clinical epidemiological and laboratory characteristics.

Results: During the third trimester, 45.3% of patients were hospitalized, comparatively with 7.

[Retroprospective clinical epidemiological research on two samples of patients suffering from viral hepatitis A, assisted in specified services of Suceava and Botoşani counties, between 1996 and 2007].

Unlabelled: Nowadays, researchers from various fields of study and geographical regions continue to pay attention to viral hepatitis A. Due to a resistant virus, with predominant enteral transmission, with endemic epidemic manifestations and a remarkable clinical polymorphism, affecting children especially, hepatitis A does not chronicize, but, in adults, it is responsible for forms with prolonged evolution and severe, sometimes.

Material And Methods: Results of clinical epidemiological and laboratory studies carried on a sample of 10321 patients suffering from hepatitis A, from two lots: 5530, Suceava; 4791, Botosani; 5400, males; 4921 females; age from < 1 to = 55.

[Assessments of retro-prospective epidemiologic research results regarding morbidity with viral hepatitis A in North-Eastern Moldavia, Romania, between 1970-2006].

Unlabelled: Viral hepatitis A (VHA) maintains the first place among hepatitis with various etiologies, by high levels of morbidity, affecting mainly children and teenagers age groups and, sometimes, with major risks in adults and when over- and co-infected with other hepatitis viruses. It also is involved in travellers' and nosocomial diseases.

Material And Method: The assessment of VHA morbidity data highlighted that VHA registered yearly values between 106.

[Epidemiological research on rubella incidence in families with low socioeconomic status].

Aim: To know some clinical epidemiological aspects of rubella familial outbreaks.

Material And Methods: Authors present results of a retro-prospective epidemiological study carried out on a sample of 31 familial outbreaks (15 from urban, 16 from rural area), including 133 children, 3-18 aged, between 2002-2004.

Results: Typical rubella form was diagnosed in 72 of 133 children (55%).

[Seroepidemiology studies on population immune background to viral hepatitis B].

Material And Method: The studies have been carried out in 855 males and females aged over 20 years belonging to the general population and health care profession included in the European Sero-Epidemiology Network (ESEN) Programme aimed at assessing the population immune background against hepatitis B virus. The serological markers, represented by HBsAg, antibodies to HBsAg (anti-HBsAg) and HBcAg (anti-HBcAg) were investigated by the methods widely used in seroepidemiology studies. The patients were divided into 4 subgroups.

[Prevalence of HBsAg carriers in Iaşi County in 2001-2005 period. Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory study].

Unlabelled: The complex epidemiological process of viral hepatitis B is dominated, maintained and spreading out as a consequence of the high prevalence of the sources represented by HBsAg carriers.

Results: In the interval 2001-2005, the prevalence of HBsAg carriers in the Iaşi County was close to the national average level of about 6%. In the age group 5-9 years, the prevalence is higher in males.

[Prospective epidemiologic and clinical observations on the prevalence of risk factors for stroke, performed on 374 inpatients, during the period of June 2001-June 2004].

Unlabelled: Within the framework of cardiovascular pathology, with an epidemopandemic aspect, the stroke, through its mortality and sequels, represents, worldwide, a major problem of community health. In this context, we present the results of an epidemiological and clinical study, both prospective and interdisciplinary, performed on a sample of 374 inpatients suffering from stroke, hospitalized in the Neurology Ist Clinic of Iaşi, during the period June 2001-June 2004. The characteristics of the studied sample: age--78.