Background: Dental composite resins - reinforced polymers - are types of synthetic resins that are used in dentistry as restorative material or adhesives. The effect of curing-light intensity on free volume sizes of 4 commercial dental composites has been studied by means of the well-known positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy technique.
Objectives: The aim of the study was to compare the photosensitivity of 4 commercial dimethacrylate-based dental composites.
Background: Sometimes patients with a scaphoid fracture, especially in an acute phase of injury, can have normal radiographs and, therefore, initial diagnosis of the scaphoid fracture may be neglected. In this study, we determined the value in of clinical examination and a radiograph in the diagnosis of scaphoid fracture based on the results of a two-week follow-up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Objectives: In this study, sought to assess the value of using both a clinical examination (tenderness of scaphoid tubercle, tenderness of anatomical snuffbox, and compression test) and radiographic imaging in the diagnosis of scaphoid fractures based on the results after a two-week follow-up MRI.