Robert M. Ricketts and Rudolf Slavicek: dentistry by the rules of nature.

The stomatognathic structures act as a complex and integrated system, thereby accomplishing several essential functions of the body. Aside from participating in food digestion, they are key for respiration and swallowing and play a central role in social interaction and stress management. The lifeworks of Robert M.

Routine Use of Structured Reporting in Whole-body Trauma CT Facilitates Quality Improvement.

Purpose: Structured reporting (SR) is increasingly used. So far, there is minimal experience with SR in whole-body computed tomography (WBCT). The aim of this study was to investigate the value of routine use of SR in WBCT in trauma with a focus on reporting time, reporting errors, and referrer satisfaction.

Comparison of cephalometric changes in Class II growing patients with increased vertical dimension after high-pull and cervical headgear treatment.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the cephalometric changes in growing Class II patients with increased vertical dimension treated with cervical or high-pull headgear, by using an untreated control group with similar skeletal characteristics.

Materials: From the initial sample, 56 patients satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria; 20 patients were treated with cervical headgear (CHG), 15 with high-pull headgear (HHG), and 21 were not treated (CG). Cephalograms were available for each subject at baseline (T1) and after treatment/observation time (T2) for the three groups.

Variability of Beta-Lactam Broth Microdilution for Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing for Pseudomonas aeruginosa is critical to determine suitable treatment options. Commercial susceptibility tests are typically calibrated against the reference method, broth microdilution (BMD). Imprecision of MICs obtained by BMD for the same isolate on repeat testing is known to exist.

[The suffering surgeon-How do German surgeons protect themselves? : Survey of the German Society of General and Visceral Surgery on the extent of occupational safety measures and health burden among German surgeons].

Background: There are few data on how surgeons implement occupational safety measures to protect their own health and how they assess their subjective health burden.

Objective: In times of a shortage of surgeons it makes sense to examine these relationships in order to evaluate future-oriented adjustments to increase the attractiveness of the profession of "surgeon".

Material And Methods: An online questionnaire was sent to the registered members of the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV) in October 2016.

Time to Result for Pathogen Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Bronchoalveolar Lavage and Endotracheal Aspirate Specimens in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals.

Identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of respiratory pathogens are critical to the management of patients with pneumonia to facilitate optimal antibiotic therapy selection. Few studies have examined the time to results (TTR) for this critical specimen, and such data can be valuable for benchmarking the current paradigm of diagnostic approaches. TTR for bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and endotracheal aspirate (ETA) specimens from hospitalized patients was evaluated using the Premier Healthcare Database, a comprehensive database of 194 U.

The Hunger Games: Laparoscopic Performance in Novice Surgeons is Not Altered by Food Deprivation but Influenced by the Degree of Appetite - A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objectives: Food deprivation is a common condition for visceral surgeons and especially laparoscopic approaches require high levels of concentration. The current literature does not provide adequate answers whether intraoperative breaks, especially food intake, might influence the quality of the surgical skills. Thus, the primary aim of this trial was to analyze the influence of food deprivation on the laparoscopic performance.

[Establishment of Multidimensional Structured Training Curriculum in Surgery].

In Germany, medical education is defined and controlled by the medical association; however hospitals are responsible for its implementation. Surgical trainees do not only need to acquire theoretical knowledge, but also practical skills. For years, young surgeons were trained primarily in the operating theatre.

[Surgical Training in the Final Year of Medical Studies in Germany - Status Quo 2017].

In Germany, medical students in their final year will work in hospitals or medical offices to gain clinical experience. The final year is designed to prepare medical students for their work as junior doctors. It is divided into three parts and includes internal medicine and general surgery as mandatory parts.

Cephalometric changes in growing patients with increased vertical dimension treated with cervical headgear.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate the cephalometric changes in patients with increased vertical dimension after treatment with cervical headgear compared to controls.

Methods: The sample of the present retrospective study consisted of 20 Class II patients (10 males, 10 females; mean age 8.54 ± 1.

Change in the vertical dimension of Class II Division 1 patients after use of cervical or high-pull headgear.

Introduction: The goals of this study were to compare the effects that cervical and high-pull headgear have on the vertical dimensions in Class II Division 1 patients during phase 1 treatment and to compare these effects with untreated predicted growth for the sample population.

Methods: Pretreatment and posttreatment cephalometric radiographs of children who had undergone Class II Division 1 correction with cervical (n = 22) or high-pull headgear (n = 19) were analyzed for the measurements that describe the changes in the vertical component of growth and mandibular position. The groups were matched for age (mean, 9 ± 2.

Assessment of vertical changes during maxillary expansion using quad helix or bonded rapid maxillary expander.

Objective: To determine if there is a significantly different effect on vertical changes during phase I palatal expansion treatment using a quad helix and a bonded rapid maxillary expander in growing skeletal Class I and Class II patients.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study looked at 2 treatment groups, a quad helix group and a bonded rapid maxillary expander group, before treatment (T1) and at the completion of phase I treatment (T2). Each treatment group was compared to an untreated predicted growth model.

Evaluation and Testing of Junctional Tourniquets by Special Operation Forces Personnel: A Comparison of the Combat Ready Clamp and the Junctional Emergency Treatment Tool.

Background: Previous research has shown that external hemorrhage from proximal leg amputations and junctional sites represents 19.2% of potentially survivable lethal hemorrhage. A recent effort to address this problem has resulted in the development of various junctional tourniquets.

Diagnostics for insufficiencies of posterior calculations in Bayesian signal inference.

We present an error-diagnostic validation method for posterior distributions in Bayesian signal inference, an advancement of a previous work. It transfers deviations from the correct posterior into characteristic deviations from a uniform distribution of a quantity constructed for this purpose. We show that this method is able to reveal and discriminate several kinds of numerical and approximation errors, as well as their impact on the posterior distribution.

Improving stochastic estimates with inference methods: calculating matrix diagonals.

Estimating the diagonal entries of a matrix, that is not directly accessible but only available as a linear operator in the form of a computer routine, is a common necessity in many computational applications, especially in image reconstruction and statistical inference. Here, methods of statistical inference are used to improve the accuracy or the computational costs of matrix probing methods to estimate matrix diagonals. In particular, the generalized Wiener filter methodology, as developed within information field theory, is shown to significantly improve estimates based on only a few sampling probes, in cases in which some form of continuity of the solution can be assumed.

Reconstructing signals from noisy data with unknown signal and noise covariance.

We derive a method to reconstruct Gaussian signals from linear measurements with Gaussian noise. This new algorithm is intended for applications in astrophysics and other sciences. The starting point of our considerations is the principle of minimum Gibbs free energy, which was previously used to derive a signal reconstruction algorithm handling uncertainties in the signal covariance.