Using restorations borne totally by anterior implants to preserve the edentulous mandible.

Background: This study quantifies the changes in bone height of the posterior area of the edentulous mandible when the load of complete dentures is borne entirely by anteriorly placed osseointegrated implants.

Methods: Thirty-three patients, of whom there were radiographs from the beginning of implant loading and from a follow-up visit at least three years later (a mean of 6.6 years later), were included in the study.

Evaluation of the nonreactive positive contraction stress test prior to 32 weeks: the role of the biophysical profile.

A nonreactive positive contraction stress test in a pregnancy near term is an indication for delivery. Such nonreassuring antepartum testing combined with severe prematurity presents a management dilemma. Ideally, prolongation of selected pregnancies would allow time for corticosteroid therapy and fetal maturation.

The value of a negative antepartum test: contraction stress test and modified biophysical profile.

Objective: To examine the outcome of pregnancies in high-risk patients whose last antepartum fetal assessment was a negative contraction stress test (CST) or a negative modified biophysical profile.

Methods: Twenty-nine hundred ninety-four women who received modified biophysical profiles were compared with 2450 who had CSTs during the preceding 3 years. Pregnancy outcomes were evaluated in patients whose last test was negative.

Antepartum fetal surveillance in patients with diabetes: when to start?

Objective: Although antepartum fetal well-being testing is an accepted practice in the management of diabetic patients, there are few data suggesting when to start. Our goal was to examine when testing should be started in the pregnant diabetic woman.

Study Design: Antepartum test results and patient histories were prospectively collected on all diabetic pregnancies from January 1981 through December 1991.

Measured resting energy expenditure in children.

The majority of equations used to predict values for basal metabolic rates (BMRs) are the result of indirect calorimetry measurements performed in the 1930s and 1950s. To assess the reliability of these equations in predicting the resting energy expenditure (REE) of the children in our community, indirect calorimetry was performed on 92 male and 107 female healthy children 2-3 h postprandial. Each individual was measured for a duration of 15-20 min.