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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Faculty of Medicine, Arish University, Arish, North Sinai, Egypt.
Background: Lingual taste cells (LTCs) are taste buds' sensory cells that modulate gustation. This study's aim is to assess whether it can be successfully implanted in hippocampus, modulating learning and memory deficits observed in Alzheimer's Dementia (AD).
Methods: Retrospective trials on rodents i.
J Prosthodont Res
January 2025
Department of Dysphagia Rehabilitation, Division of Gerontology and Gerodontology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Patients: Three residents of a long-term care home volunteered to participate in a rehabilitation program involving a virtual reality blowgun game. The participants played the game 5 days a week as a new exercise routine. After 4 weeks of intervention, tongue pressure and forced expiratory volume in 1 s improved in all participants.
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January 2025
Owner of Advanced Vetcare, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Mandibular and maxillary fractures are common in small animals and present significant challenges for repair due to the intricate anatomical features involved. This retrospective case series describes a technique for achieving rigid open mouth maxillomandibular fixation using interarch wiring while maintaining correct alignment between the upper and lower teeth with polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) moulds of the canine teeth for treating maxillomandibular fractures in cats. The study includes a description of the postoperative outcomes and complications encountered.
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January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
We present the case of a 51-year-old man with Von Hippel-Lindau disease and a history of renal transplantation who developed a persistent, painful tongue lesion with episodes of significant swelling. Given his history of prolonged immunosuppression and elevated cancer risk, oral squamous cell carcinoma was a major concern. However, histopathological evaluation confirmed recrudescent herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection rather than malignancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Nucl Med
November 2024
From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India.
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common malignancies worldwide. Locoregional nodal involvement by OSCC is commonly encountered. Current conventional and functional imaging modalities have limited diagnostic accuracy in nodal assessment, particularly in head and neck cancer.
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