2D/3D accuracies of implant position after guided surgery using different surgical protocols: A retrospective study.

Purpose: To compare the 2D and 3D positional accuracy of four guided surgical protocols using an analysis of linear and angular deviations.

Methods: DICOM and .STLs files obtained from a CBCT and a digital impression were superimposed with software to plan implant position.

Full Digital Workflow for the Treatment of an Edentulous Patient with Guided Surgery, Immediate Loading and 3D-Printed Hybrid Prosthesis: The BARI Technique 2.0. A Case Report.

Purpose: To describe a technique intended to transfer of the intermaxillary and occlusal relationships in a fully digital environment from a complete denture to an implant-supported 3D-printed hybrid prosthesis (an acrylic resin complete fixed dental prosthesis supported by implants).

Methods: In edentulous cases, the physiological mandibular position should be determined before the immediate loading procedures. In some cases, the use of interim removable prostheses for a few weeks could be useful to test the new occlusion in centric relation and to verify the prosthetic project.

Unique Association of Rare Cardiovascular Disease in an Athlete With Ventricular Arrhythmias.

Ventricular arrhythmias are a leading cause of non-elegibility to competitive sport. The failure to detect a significant organic substrate in the initial stage of screening does not preclude the identification of structural pathologies in the follow-up by using advanced imaging techniques. Here we report the case of a senior athlete judged not elegible because an arrhythmia with the morphology consistent with the origin of the left ventricle, in which subsequent execution of a cardiac MR and a thoracic CT scan has allowed the identification of an unique association between an area of myocardial damage, probable site of origine of the arrhythma, and a rare aortic malformation.

Acoustic features of voice in patients with severe hearing loss.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in the acoustic features of voice in patients with sensorineural hearing loss.

Design: Thirty male patients, between 35 and 53 years of age with postlingual bilateral symmetric severe sensorineural hearing loss, were included (group A). As a control group (group B), 30 normal-hearing male adults, aged 38 to 51 years, were identified.

Ribosomal therapy in patients with pharyngolaryngeal reflux.

Conclusions: Our data confirm the induction of specific and nonspecific immune responses of the upper respiratory tract mucosa and the consequent improvement of its physiology, through an oral ribosomal therapy in patients with pharyngolaryngeal reflux disease (PLRD).

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency and applicability of oral ribosomal immunotherapy in adult patients with PLRD.

Methods: One hundred adult patients with PLRD were enrolled.

Water-soluble coenzyme Q10 formulation in presbycusis: long-term effects.

Conclusion: These findings provide the basis for understanding the duration of the effect after the last use of the drug and encourage a larger clinical trial to collect additional evidence on the effect of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) in preventing the development of hearing loss in subjects with presbycusis.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term effects of a water-soluble formulation of CoQ10 (Q-TER) in subjects with presbycusis.

Methods: Sixty patients with presbycusis were included and divided at random into three numerically equal groups.

Nasal tactile sensitivity in elderly.

Conclusion: Although older people varied widely in tactile sensitivity, our results show that tactile thresholds increased with age.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of aging on nasal tactile sensitivity.

Methods: A total of 160 healthy patients aged between 50 and 90 years were included.

Computerized voice therapy in hypofunctional dysphonia.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the efficiency and applicability of the Kay CSL 4500 system with the Sona-Speech II software model 3650 (Kay Pentax, Lincoln Park, NJ) in the voice therapy of patients affected by hypofunctional dysphonia.

Design: The study evaluated the effect of visual biofeedback, obtained with the Sona-Speech II software, on dysphonia associated with hypofunction dysphonia.

Setting: The study was conducted with 40 male adults affected by hypofunctional dysphonia in the Otolaryngology Department of the University of Genoa (Italy) between April 2008 and April 2009.

Piezosurgery versus microdrill in intact canal wall mastoidectomy.

Piezosurgery is a recently developed system for cutting bone with microvibrations. The objectives of the present study were to report our experience with the piezoelectric device in the intact canal mastoidectomy, and to compare the results with traditional method by means of microdrill. A non-randomized controlled trial was undertaken on 60 intact canal wall mastoidectomy performed using the piezoelectric device (30 patients) or the microdrill (30 patients).

Water-soluble coenzyme Q10 formulation (Q-TER(®)) in the treatment of presbycusis.

Conclusion: These preliminary data are encouraging for a larger clinical trial to collect additional evidence on the effect of Q-TER(®) in preventing the development of hearing loss in subjects with presbycusis.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency and applicability of a water-soluble formulation of CoQ10 (Q-TER(®)) in subjects with presbycusis.

Methods: A total of 60 patients with presbycusis were included and divided into three numerically equal groups.

Evaluation of an automated auditory brainstem response in a multi-stage infant hearing screening.

An automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) method, the Maico MB-11 with BERAphone, has been developed for hearing screening in newborns. The aim of this study was to test the validity of this automated ABR screening method in a multistage newborn hearing screening (NHS). We applied a "five level" protocol using transient evoked otoacoustic emission (TEOAE), AABR-MB-11 with BERAphone and conventional auditory brainstem response (ABR).

Ribosomal therapy in the treatment of recurrent acute adenoiditis.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of an oral ribosomal immunotherapy in the management of children with recurrent acute adenoiditis (RAA). 60 children with RAA were included and randomly assigned into two groups (group A and B). Group A children underwent ribosomal prophylaxis, while group B received a placebo.