Posttraumatic stress disorder treatment for Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom combat veterans through a civilian community-based telemedicine network.

Background: Telemedicine holds great potential to improve access to care and to reduce barriers to treatment for military populations with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study sought to integrate the use of telemedicine mental health treatment services by a community healthcare provider to military populations residing in a rural location and to compare the equivalency of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) administered via telemedicine and traditional face-to-face therapy.

Subjects And Methods: Study subjects were men or women 18 years of age or older who had served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and were diagnosed with PTSD.

Clinical evaluation of a novel dental whitening lamp and light-catalyzed peroxide gel.

Objective: This study examined whether an ultraviolet light enhanced the whitening efficacy of a peroxide gel containing a photo-Fenton activator.

Methodology: Fifty subjects were enrolled into the trial at two geographically separate sites. As directed by the randomization keys, teeth of half of the study subjects were concurrently exposed to the whitening lamp, while the gel was on their teeth, for a total light exposure of 45 minutes.

The clinical performance of professionally dispensed bleaching gel with added amorphous calcium phosphate.

Background: The authors undertook a study to measure how the addition of amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) to a professionally dispensed 16 percent carbamide peroxide equivalent bleaching gel affects tooth color and dentinal hypersensitivity.

Methods: The authors assigned two groups to use either the test gel containing ACP or a control gel. Both groups used their respective products for three hours daily for 14 days.

Placement of a collagen glaucoma drainage device to control intraocular pressure and chronic iritis secondary to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

A patient with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and chronic iritis is reported with intraocular pressure near 30 mm Hg and previous episodes of intraocular pressure as high as 50 mm Hg despite maximally tolerated medical therapy. Because of the potential risk involved with a full-thickness filtration procedure, it was decided that a nonpenetrating deep sclerectomy would be appropriate, followed by placement of a collagen glaucoma drainage device to maintain aqueous outflow. Immediately postoperatively, intraocular pressure was stabilized.

Management of myopic astigmatism with phakic intraocular lens implantation.

A 48-year-old woman presented with a manifest refraction of -9.25 -2.25 x 98 that resulted in a best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of 20/20(-2) in the right eye.