Impact of Surface Chemistry Modifications on Speed and Strength of Osseointegration.

Purpose: To compare the bone responses of chemically modified implants using the plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition method with those of blasted implants.

Materials And Methods: The titanium implants were blasted with resorbable blasting media (RBM) and designated as controls. The ion-implanted implants were divided into two test groups, namely, calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) implants.

Helical carbon and graphite films prepared from helical poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) films synthesized by electrochemical polymerization in chiral nematic liquid crystals.

Helical carbon and graphite films from helical poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (H-PEDOT) films synthesized through electrochemical polymerization in a chiral nematic liquid-crystal (N*-LC) field are prepared. The microscope investigations showed that the H-PEDOT film synthesized in the N*-LC has large domains of one-handed spiral morphology consisting of fibril bundles. The H-PEDOT films exhibited distinct Cotton effects in circular dichroism spectra.

Electrochromism-driven linearly and circularly polarised dichroism of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) derivatives with chirality and liquid crystallinity.

This review presents recent advances in the synthesis, electrochemical properties, and optical functions of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) derivatives embodying chirality and liquid crystallinity. Various methods for preparing the optically active and liquid crystalline (LC) PEDOT derivatives, such as (i) the introduction of chiral substituents into polymer side chains, (ii) chemical or electrochemical polymerisation by using lipid assemblies as templates, (iii) electrochemical polymerisation in asymmetric LC reaction fields, and (iv) the addition of a chiral dopant to LC-PEDOT derivatives, are discussed. Throughout the review, linearly and/or circularly dichroic electrochromism, hierarchically controlled spiral structure, and aligned morphology are demonstrated to be promising for the development of multifunctional PEDOT derivatives.

The effects of Mg-ion implantation and sandblasting on Porphyromonas gingivalis attachment.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of titanium surface treatment on Porphyromonas gingivalis bacterial attachment.

Materials And Methods: Titanium disks of 15 mm in diameter and 1 mm in thickness (n=40) were subjected to mechanical grinding, or sandblasting. Magnesium (Mg) ions were implanted onto the titanium surface using a plasma source ion implantation method.

Bone response of Mg ion-implanted clinical implants with the plasma source ion implantation method.

Objectives: This study examined the bone response of magnesium (Mg) ion-implanted implants produced using a plasma source ion implantation method.

Materials And Methods: The surface characteristics were evaluated by scanning electron microscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy. The screw-type titanium implants were treated with resorbable blasting media (RBM) and divided into one control group (RBM implants) and three test groups (Mg ion-implanted implants with different retained Mg doses).

Results of air caloric and other vestibular tests in patients with chronic otitis media.

Objectives: Air caloric results are supposed to be influenced by anatomic changes of the middle ear. The aims of our study were to evaluate the incidence and characteristics of abnormal air caloric results in patients with unilateral chronic otitis media and without any history of vertigo, and to compare caloric results with there of other vestibular function tests (VFTs).

Methods: Twenty five patients with unilateral chronic otitis media (COM) who were scheduled for surgery underwent VFTs preoperatively.

Lessons from follow-up examinations in patients with vestibular neuritis: how to interpret findings from vestibular function tests at a compensated stage.

Objectives: Most patients complaining of dizziness seek medical services in the interictal period, which is thought to be a compensated stage. Thus, we wanted to investigate the results of vestibular function tests (VFTs) at a compensated stage in patients with vestibular neuritis to determine the presence and the sides of vestibular hypofunction.

Study Design: Retrospective case series review.

Tympanometry and CT Measurement of Middle Ear Volumes in Patients with Unilateral Chronic Otitis Media.

Objectives: The goals of the study were to compare the middle ear (ME) volumes from both normal and lesioned ears, and these ME volumes were measured by a digital image processing computed tomography (CT) program in patients with unilateral chronic otitis media, and we wanted to compare the ME volumes of the lesioned ears by comparing the ME volumes obtained by tympanometry with those ME volumes measured by the digital image processing CT program.

Methods: Forty-four patients who had unilateral chronic otitis media (COM) and contralateral normal tympanic membranes (TM) and 100 subjects with normal TMs were included in the study. The normal volumes of the external auditory canal (EAC) were measured in the normal group.

The Korean version of the Sniffin' stick (KVSS) test and its validity in comparison with the cross-cultural smell identification test (CC-SIT).

Objective: The Korean Version of the Sniffin' stick (KVSS) is the first olfactory test for Koreans. Although we adopted the Sniffin' Stick, we modified it to make it more suitable for Koreans. KVSS I is a screening test, and KVSS II a more comprehensive test.