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.