Oral health needs of Wampanoag elders on Martha's Vineyard: A comprehensive assessment.

Objectives: Evaluate oral health care access and utilisation, while identifying the specific oral health needs of the Native American Elders within the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (WTGH) on Martha's Vineyard Island.

Background: Elders, particularly the WTGH face notable issues in obtaining oral health care. This study addressed the oral health gaps within the WTGH Elders through a comprehensive community needs assessment.

Retrospective assessment of an intentional interprofessional experiential education experience involving pharmacy students in a dental clinic.

Background: Our objective was to create an intentional Interprofessional Education Experience (IEE) that satisfied the requirements set forth by the Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE 2013), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Standard 11, and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Competencies. These frameworks elevate the importance of interprofessional education in pharmacy. They not only guide educational standards but also emphasize the crucial role of collaborative healthcare practices in ensuring comprehensive patient care and improving health outcomes.

Perspectives on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI): A call for oral health care policy.

Educational Institutions in the U.S. have responded to government policies that called for more inclusive educational systems.

A novel approach to embed eye shields in customized bolus on nasal dorsum treatment for electron radiotherapy.

We aim to demonstrate the unique use of embedded lead eye shields in an electron wax bolus when treating the nasal dorsum. A patient presented to the clinic with squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal dorsum requiring treatment with en face electrons. A 3D customized wax bolus was designed and imported into the treatment planning system (TPS) to calculate the dose distribution.

The Role of Academic Institutions in Fostering Interprofessional Educational Models.

Dentistry is much broader than the conditions it treats. In 2014, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine convened a leadership forum, "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: The Economic Imperative of Oral Health." Based on the goals of that initiative to advocate for an integrated healthcare system, the authors have presented pertinent information from two major research projects and two major clinical programs, which, collectively, aim to bring oral health into primary care and raise the awareness of the connections between oral health and systemic health.

Potential of 3D printing technologies for fabrication of electron bolus and proton compensators.

In electron and proton radiotherapy, applications of patient-specific electron bolus or proton compensators during radiation treatments are often necessary to accommodate patient body surface irregularities, tissue inhomogeneity, and variations in PTV depths to achieve desired dose distributions. Emerging 3D printing technologies provide alternative fabrication methods for these bolus and compensators. This study investigated the potential of utilizing 3D printing technologies for the fabrication of the electron bolus and proton compensators.

Innovations in dental care delivery for the older adult.

Access to and reducing disparities in oral health for older adults is a complex problem that requires innovative strategies. In addition to offering dental services in alternative settings, such as senior centers, places that are familiar to older adults, and where physical limitations can be better accommodated, alternatives to the traditional provider should be considered. Many states are changing laws and practice acts to allow dental hygienists to provide preventive services without the supervision of a dentist.

Dentists as oral physicians: the overlooked primary health care resource.

The United States is currently experiencing a primary care shortage. One solution to improving health care is to increase the utilization of existing health care providers, particularly dentists, an opportunity that has been largely ignored. By employing mid-level providers for less complex procedures to deliver more accessible dental care at lower cost, dentists can redistribute tasks to their office workforce.

Innovative primary care training: the Cambridge Health Alliance Oral Physician Program.

We evaluated the Oral Physician Program, a dental residency sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Cambridge Health Alliance that offers an innovative model for training dentists to provide limited primary care. The didactic and clinical experiences increased residents' medical knowledge and interviewing skills, and faculty assessments supported their role as oral physicians. Oral physicians could increase patients'-especially patients from underserved groups-access to integrated oral and primary care services.

PET/MR images acquired with a compact MR-compatible PET detector in a 7-T magnet.

Purpose: To prospectively use compact avalanche photodiodes instead of photomultiplier tubes to integrate a positron emission tomographic (PET) detector and a 7-T magnetic resonance (MR) imager.

Materials And Methods: All animal experiments were performed in accordance with the University of Tübingen guidelines and the German law for the protection of animals. A compact lutetium oxyorthosilicate-avalanche photodiode PET detector was built and optimized to operate within a 7-T MR imager.

Lutetium oxyorthosilicate block detector readout by avalanche photodiode arrays for high resolution animal PET.

Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) have proven to be useful as light detectors for high resolution positron emission tomography (PET). Their compactness makes these devices excellent candidates for replacing bulky photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in PET systems where space limitations are an issue. The readout of densely packed, 10 x 10 lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) block detectors (crystal size 2.

In situ kinetic measurements of D-amino acid oxidase in rat liver with respect to its substrate specificity.

D-Amino acid oxidase activity was demonstrated in peroxisomes of rat liver using unfixed cryostat sections and a histochemical technique using cerium ions as capture reagent for hydrogen peroxide and diaminobenzidine, cobalt ions and exogenous hydrogen peroxide to visualize the final reaction product for light microscopical analysis. Cytophotometric analysis of liver sections revealed similar zero-order reaction velocities of D-amino acid oxidase with activity twice as high in periportal areas as in pericentral areas of liver lobuli when using either D-proline or D,L-thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid as substrates. On the other hand, a 4-5 times higher KM value was found for D-proline than for D,L-thiazolidine-2-carboxylic acid.

A novel technique for immunohistoperoxidase staining of unfixed whole joints of small animals.

A method has been developed to cut unfixed and undecalcified sections of rat paws from animals with adjuvant arthritis and to stain them by a biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase technique. Good tissue integrity and morphology throughout the immunohistochemical procedure were retained if the sections were first mounted on transparent sellotape. The method is illustrated with two monoclonal antibodies (mAb) and is generally applicable with any mAb or polyclonal antibody and with joints from other small animals.