Avaliação da degradação de elásticos ortodônticos intraorais de látex

Avaliou-se a taxa de degradação de elásticos ortodônticos de látex de diferentes fabricantes e diâmetros em diversos intervalos de tempo. Grupos de 15 elásticos de força média dos fabricantes AmericanOrthodontics (Sheboygan, Wis, EUA), Tp (La Porte, IN, EUA), Morelli (Sorocaba, SP, Brasil) e Uniden (Sorocaba, SP, Brasil); de diâmetros 3/16, 1/4 e 5/16 foram analisados nos intervalos de 0,1,3,6,12 e 24 horas, totalizando-se 1080 espécimes. Os elásticos foram estirados individualmente à distância de 30mm, respeitando-se o intervalo de um minuto entre cada estiramento. Os materiais foram acondicionados imersos em água deionizada à 37C. Realizou-se leitura das forças na máquina de ensaios Emic DL 500 (Emic Co, Sao Paulo, Brasil) à velocidade de 30 mm/min, com uma célula de 2Kg (Emic Co, Sao Paulo, Brasil). A leitura de cada elástico consumiu aproximadamente um minuto. Teste Kruskal-wallis com correções por Dunns aferiu significância estatística dos resultados. Foram observadas diferenças entre os grupos analisados, exceto às marcas Morelli e Tp. Foram significativas as inferências das variáveis tempo e marca comercial. Em 0 hora, a relação entre as forças geradas foi Morelli>AO>Uniden>Tp para elásticos 3/16 (p=0,0016) e 1/4 (p=0,0016) e, de Morelli>AO>Tp>Uniden para elásticos 5/16 (p=0,0087). Após 24 horas, as porcentagens de degradação dos elásticos foram AO>Morelli>Uniden>Tp no diâmetro 3/16; AO>Tp>Morelli>Uniden no diâmetro 1/4 e Tp>AO>Uniden>Morelli para elásticos de diâmetro 5/16. O comportamento no intervalo de 0-24 horas demonstrou uma queda acentuada no período de 0-3 horas, um ligeiro aumento em 3-6 horas, seguido de uma queda progressiva no intervalo de 6-24 horas.

13万年以来黄土高原东缘与捷克的风成沉积序列

The loess-paleosols in the Chinese loess plateau and Europe are the main eolian sediment sequences in mid-latitude area of north hemisphere. They record not only the paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental processes since the last interglacial, but also the configuration of magnetic field during polarity transition. Comparisons of environmental magnetism, paleomagnetism and climate proxy analysis has been made for the loess/paleosol sequences in Datong and Czech Republic. The Datong loess/paleosol sequence is composed of the Holocene soil SO, the last glacial loess LI, the last interglacial soil SI and the upper penultimate loess L2. A basalt layer occurs in L2. The main magnetic minerals in LI and SI are magnetite, maghemite and ilmenite. The presence of local volcanic elastics in the loess and the characteristics of the magnetic minerals indicate that there are local materials in Datong loess, which differentiate the Datong loess from the central and eastern loess of the Chinese Loess Plateau. In addition, there are four polarity events in Datong loess, which are generally consistent with Gothenburg> Mono Lake, Laschamp and Blake events. Some signals of the East Asia monsoon were recorded in the Datong loess/paleosol sequences. Magnetic susceptibility, the content of >63um grains and the organic matter are used as climate proxies, which are similar to those of the typical eolian sediments in the loess plateau. In addition, it is possible that the Datong loess also recorded the Younger Dryas and the climatic fluctuations during the Holocene. The main magnetic minerals in the loess/paleosol at Znojmo section are magnetite, maghemite, hematite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and goethite. The morphology of these grains reveals that the iron sulfides originated from the eluvium loam above hypothetical ore deposits in the vicinity of the section or glaciofluvial sediments from nearby glacial margins. The pattern of the susceptibility variation at Dolni Vestonice section is coincident with that of the organic matter content. The grain size variation along the section recorded the climate instability since the last interglacial. The climate events in the Dolni Vestonice section may be correlated with the Heinrich events recorded in North Atlantic sediments, suggesting they controlled by the same marine-continent climate system.

西秦岭晚古生代弧前盆地沉积与成矿作用

The Western Qinling Orogenie belt in the Taibai-Fengxian and Xihe-Lixian areas can be subdivided into three units structurally from north to south, which are the island-arc, forearc basin and accretionary wedge, respectively. The forearc basin developed in the Late Paleozoic mainly controls sedimentation and some larger lead-zinc and gold deposits in the western Qinling. Stratigraphically, the island arc is dissected into the Liziyuan Group, the Danfeng Group and the Luohansi Group. The metavolcanic rocks include basic, intermediate and acidic rocks, and their geochemistry demonstrates that these igneous rocks generated in an island arc. Where, the basalts are subalkaline series charactered by low-medium potassium, with enriched LREE, negative Eu anomaly, and positive Nd anomaly. Cr-content of volcanic rocks is 2-3 times higher than that of island arc tholeiite all over the world. In addition, the lightly metamorphosed accretionary wedge in the areas of Huixian, Chengxian, Liuba and Shiqun is dominated by terrigenous sediments with carbonatite, chert, mafic and volcanic rocks. The age of the wedge is the Late Palaeozoic to the Trassic, while previous work suggested that it is the Silurian. The Upper Paleozoic between the island arc belt and accretionary wedge are mainly the sediments filled in the fore arc basin. The fillings in the forearc basin were subdivided into the Dacaiotan Group, the Tieshan Group, the Shujiaba Group and the Xihanshui Group, previously. They outcropped along the southern margins of the Liziyuan Group. The Dacaotan Group, the Upper Devonian, is close to the island arc complex, and composed of a suite of red and gray-green thick and coarse terrestrial elastics. The Shujiaba Group, the Mid-Upper Devonian, is located in the middle of the basin, is mainly fine-grained elastics with a few intercalations of limestone. The Xihanshui Group, which distributes in the southern of the basin, is mainly slates, phyllites and sandstones with carbonatite and reef blocks. The Tieshan Group, the Upper Devonian, just outcrops in the southwest of the basin, is carbonatite and clastic rocks, and deposited in the shallow -sea environment. The faults in the basin are mainly NW trend. The sedimentary characteristics, slump folds, biological assemblages in both sides of and within those faults demonstrate that they were syn-sedimentary faults with multi-period activities. They separated the forearc basin into several sub-basins, which imbricate in the background of a forearc basin with sedimentary characteristics of the piggyback basin. The deep hydrothermal fluid erupted along the syn-sedimentary faults, supported nutrition and energy for the reef, and resulted in hydrothermal-sedimentary rocks, reef and lead-zinc deposits along these faults. The sedimentary facies in the basin varies from the continental slope alluvial fan, to shallow-sea reef facies, and then to deep-water from north to south, which implies that there was a continental slope in the Devonian in the west Qinling. The strata overlap to north and to east respectively. Additionally, the coeval sedimentary facies in north and south are significantly different. The elastics become more and more coarser to north in the basin as well as upward coarsing. These features indicate prograding fillings followed by overlaps of the different fans underwater. The paleocurrent analyses show that the forearc basin is composed of thrust-ramp-basins and deep-water basins. The provenance of the fillings in the basin is the island arc in the north. The lead-zinc deposits were synchronous with the Xihanshui Group in the early stage of development of the forearc basin. They were strongly constrained by syn-sedimentary faults and then modified by the hydrothermal fluids. The gold deposits distributed in the north of the basin resulted from the tectonic activities and magmatism in the later stage of the basin evolution, and occurred at the top of the lead-zinc deposits spatially. The scales of lead-zinc deposits in the south of the basin are larger than that of the gold-deposits. The Pb-Zn deposits in the west of the basin are larger than those in the east, while the Gold deposits in the west of the basin are smaller than those in the east. Mineralizing ages of these deposits become younger and younger to west.

Estudo da prevalência da discrepância anterior de Bolton numa população ortodôntica portuguesa

Projeto de Pós-Graduação/Dissertação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Medicina Dentária

Distração osteogênica da sínfise mandibular como opção de tratamento ortodôntico: relato de caso

INTRODUÇÃO: o problema transversal em Ortodontia pode ser de origem dentária, esquelética ou uma combinação de ambas e pode ser tratado de várias maneiras de acordo com o tipo de tecido envolvido e o arco dentário acometido. em se tratando de um problema esquelético e maxilar, o ortodontista poderá lançar mão da disjunção ortopédica, dependendo da idade óssea, obtendo uma correção da atresia, um alinhamento dentário espontâneo resultante do aumento no perímetro do arco e um sorriso mais amplo, beneficiando esteticamente o paciente. Porém, este tratamento de disjunção mandibular se torna inviável, já que este osso tem sua sutura fusionada precocemente. A expansão neste caso é alveolar e sua estabilidade é questionada. OBJETIVO: relatar um caso clínico, apresentando uma nova alternativa de tratamento para o apinhamento inferior: a Distração Osteogênica da Sínfise Mandibular (DOSM). Neste procedimento, é feita uma osteotomia sagital na sínfise, criando-se uma sutura artificial para que uma separação óssea seja conseguida, utilizando uma mecânica com aparelho disjuntor de Hyrax modificado. RESULTADOS: os resultados do tratamento apresentado mostram uma melhora na forma do arco, diminuição do corredor bucal, correção do apinhamento dentário e também uma estabilidade do tratamento, sem dano aos tecidos adjacentes. Neste caso clínico, a DOSM se mostrou uma excelente opção de tratamento.

Estudo da degradação da força gerada por elásticos ortodônticos sintéticos

OBJETIVO: analisar separada e comparativamente cinco marcas comerciais de elásticos sintéticos (Morelli, Ormco, GAC, TP e Unitek) quanto à degradação da força gerada por estes em função do tempo, quando mantidos continuamente estirados em uma distância de 20mm. METODOLOGIA: as leituras das quantidades de força gerada pelos elásticos foram feitas nos intervalos 1/2, 1, 6, 12, 24, 48 horas; 7, 14, 21 e 28 dias. Construiu-se um gráfico de força versus tempo, onde se pôde observar significativa redução na quantidade de força liberada pelos elásticos na primeira hora de ativação. RESULTADOS: verificou-se uma redução na quantidade de força gerada pelos elásticos de 20,31 a 38,47% na primeira hora de testes e de 47,7 a 75,95% em 28 dias de estiramento constante. CONCLUSÕES: concluiu-se que todas as amostras das marcas comerciais estudadas sofreram significativa redução na quantidade de força liberada na primeira hora de ativação e que a média de força gerada em 21 e 28 dias de testes foi semelhante para todas as amostras pesquisadas.

LARGE ATOMIC and NUCLEAR THREE-BODY SYSTEMS: SCATTERING and BINDING

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Kinesiographic study of deglutition in dentate individuals and complete denture wearers

Swallowing is used as a clinical method in prosthodontics to determine and record jaw relationships. The aim of this study was to perform a quantitative evaluation, in naturally dentate subjects and complete denture wearers, of three measurements associated with the mandibular position during the act of swallowing water: 1. intermaxillary distance on vertical axis; 2. anteroposterior deviation; and 3. lateral deviation. Two groups were selected: Group I (GI) included 40 subjects with complete dentition (mean age 45.27 yrs) and Group II (GII) included 40 bimaxillary edentate subjects, complete denture wearers (mean age 63.92 yrs). A kinesiographic instrument was used for analysis. Three records were taken for each measurement and a mean value obtained. It was concluded that: 1. intermaxillary distance on vertical axis and horizontal deviation were similar for both groups; 2. there was a significant intermaxillary distance on the vertical axis; and 3. for anteroposterior and lateral axis, results showed moderate deviation in relation to maximal intercuspation (MI).

Influence of the construction bite vertical and horizontal dimensions on dentoskeletal structures induced by the Klammt appliance in Class II treatment

Aim: To evaluate the influence of construction bite in the dentoskeletal changes induced by Klammt Appliance. Methods: The sample consisted of 17 children, with Class II malocclusion and initial mean age of 8.5 years. The construction bite was obtained using an Exactobite on edge-toedge anteroposterior relationship with 3 mm interincisal clearance. The height of the acrylic was determined by initial overbite associated to interincisal clearance and measured with digital caliper. The amount of advancement was obtained and measured by initial overjet in the lateral radiography. Pearson's correlation, linear regression and ANOVA were used to determine the relationship between dentoskeletal and construction bite variables. Results: The increase in the height of the acrylic promotes a greater inhibition of the forward displacement of the nasal spine and reduction in the facial growth index. The increase in the mandibular advancement induces more downward displacement of nasal spine and pogonion; a counter-clockwise rotation of palatine plane; an increase in mandibular length, maxillary alveolar height and interincisal angle; a decrease in mandibular alveolar height, the intermaxillary discrepancy and overjet; and palatal tipping of upper incisors. Conclusions: The different dimensions of the construction bite influence the dentoskeletal changes induced by the appliance in Class II treatment.

Assessment of force decay in orthodontic elastomeric chains: An in vitro study

Introduction: Elastomeric materials are considered important sources of orthodontic forces. Objective: To assess force degradation over time of four commercially available orthodontic elastomeric chains (Morelli, Ormco, TP and Unitek). Methods: The synthetic elastics were submerged in 37 oC synthetic saliva and stretched by a force of 150 g (15 mm - Morelli and TP; 16mm - Unitek and Ormco). With a dynamometer, the delivered force was evaluated at different intervals: 30 minutes, 7 days, 14 days and 21 days. The results were subjected to ANOVA and Tukey's test. Results: There was a force decay between 19% to 26.67% after 30 minutes, and 36.67% to 57% after 21 days of activation. Conclusions: TP elastomeric chains exhibited the smallest percentage of force decay, with greater stability at all time intervals tested. Meanwhile, the Unitek chains displayed the highest percentage of force degradation, and no statically significant difference was found in force decay between Ormco and Morelli elastomeric chains during the study period.

Comparação de modelos para o cálculo de pertubações orbitais devidas à maré terrestre

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Avaliação da intrusão dos molares superiores pela técnica de ancoragem com miniplacas de titânio

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo cinesiográfico da deglutição em indivíduos com dentição natural e com próteses totais

Pós-graduação em Reabilitação Oral - FOAR

Estudo comparativo da degradação de forças geradas por elásticos ortodônticos sintéticos e molas de níquel-titânio

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)