Comparison of masticatory performance and oral hygiene status using cream-type denture adhesives and home liners: A cross-sectional study using propensity-score matching.

Background: Differences in the effects of cream-type denture adhesives and home liners remain unclear.

Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed to clarify the differences in the oral-hygiene status and masticatory performance between participants using cream-type denture adhesives and those using home liners.

Methods: Masticatory performance with and without cream-type denture adhesives and home liners was evaluated using colour-changeable chewing gum.

Association between Masticatory Performance, Nutritional Intake, and Frailty in Japanese Older Adults.

The older adult population in Japan is expected to increase. Therefore, long-term care and frailty prevention are important. However, the relationship between masticatory performance, nutritional intake, and frailty remains unclear.

Factors Associated with Selection of Denture Adhesive Type: A Cross-Sectional Survey.

The type of denture adhesive, cream or home-liner, chosen by regular denture adhesive users and oral conditions contributing to this selection require elucidation. The factors associated with denture adhesive selection were investigated through a face-to-face survey on oral and denture conditions. Age, sex, oral moisture, masticatory performance, retention and stability of the removable denture, ridge shape, mucosal thickness, and duration of denture use were examined in cream and home-liner-type denture adhesive users who did not regularly visit a dentist.

Measurement of basilar artery bending and elongation by magnetic resonance cerebral angiography: relationship to age, sex and vertebral artery dominance.

Elongation and bending of the basilar artery are frequently observed in both normal and pathological subjects. However, their mechanism of generation remain unclear. In the present study, we measured basilar arteries in patients and normal subjects using magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and estimated the relationships between these anatomical changes and some factors such as age, sex and vertebral artery dominance.

Protective effects of cimetidine on radiation-induced micronuclei and apoptosis in human peripheral blood lymphocytes.

The radioprotective effects of cimetidine, which has been used clinically as an antagonist of H2 receptor, on radiation-induced micronuclei and apoptosis in human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) prepared from healthy donors were studied. Cells were treated with cimetidine before or after X-irradiation, and then cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus assay and flow cytometry for measurement of phosphatidylserine externalization were utilized to evaluate the radiation-induced cytogenetic damage and apoptosis. The protective effect of preirradiation treatment of cimetidine on radiation-induced micronuclei was dependent on the concentration.