The Acropolitan - v. 7, no. 5

In this issue...M Club Dance, Rabbi Emanuel Sternheim, Women's Athletic Association, Men's Smoker, Gamer's Café, Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Periodontal healing after application of enamel matrix derivative in surgical supra/infrabony periodontal defects in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Epidemiologic and clinical studies have indicated that diabetes is a risk factor for periodontal disease progression and healing. The aim of the present study was to evaluate short-term healing after enamel matrix derivative (EMD) application in combined supra/infrabony periodontal defects in diabetic rats. MATERIAL AND METHODS Thirty male Wistar rats were initially divided into two groups, one with streptozotocin-induced diabetes and another one with healthy (non-diabetic) animals. Bony defects were surgically created on the mesial root of the first maxillary molars. After root surface planing and EDTA conditioning, EMD was applied to the roots at one side of the maxillae, while those on the contralateral sides were left untreated. Animals were killed 3 wk after surgery, and block sections were prepared for histologic and histomorphometric analysis. RESULTS There was statistically significant more gingival recession in diabetic animals than in non-diabetic animals. The length of the junctional epithelium was significantly shorter in the EMD-treated sites in both diabetic and normoglycemic rats. Sulcus depth and length of supracrestal soft connective tissue showed no statistically significant differences between groups. In all animals, new bone formation was observed. Although new bone occurred more frequently in healthy animals, the extent of new bone was not significantly different between groups. In none of the teeth, a layer of new cementum was detectable. EMD had no influence on bone or cementum regeneration. Adverse reactions such as excessive inflammation due to bacterial root colonization, ankylosis and bone fractures were exclusively observed in diabetic animals, irrespective of EMD treatment. CONCLUSION Within the limits of the present study, it can be concluded that periodontal healing was impaired in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. EMD had no beneficial effects on new bone and cementum formation during short-term healing in this defect model and could not ameliorate the adverse effects in the systemically compromised animals.

PANEL DISCUSSION: "Medical Ethics, Eugenics, and the Holocaust"

A panel discussion moderated by Dr. Thomas R. Cole, McGovern Chair in Medical Humanities and Director of the John P. McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Panelists include: Rabbi Samuel E. Karff, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel and Associate Director of the John P. McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics and Visiting Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at the Texas Medical Center. Cardinal DiNardo, the second Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and the first cardinal archbishop from a diocese in the Southern United States. Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, and is a Fellow in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology. Dr. Rubenfeld has taught "Healing by Killing: Medicine During the Third Reich" for three years and "Jewish Medical Ethics" for seven years at Baylor College of Medicine. He created a six-month program about Medicine and the Holocaust at Holocaust Museum Houston, including an exhibit entitled How Healing Becomes Killing: Eugenics, Euthanasia, Extermination and a series of lectures by distinguished speakers entitled "The Michael E. DeBakey Medical Ethics Lecture Series".

Der Messias oder Reform der Juden in religiöser und moralischer Hinsicht

philosophisch u. theologisch erl. von Rabbi Assa

Confutazione degli errori de' Giudei intorno alla venuta del Messia

di Rabbi Samuello. Trad. dall' Arabico nel Latino, indi trasport. nella Italiana favella da Arizioberto Nalivaniano

Das Jhesus Nazarenus der ware Messias sey : derhalben die Juden auff kaynen andern warten dörffen

Rabbi Samuelis. Verdeütscht durch Wenzelslaum Linck

Die Lehre von der Beschneidung der Israeliten, in ihrer mosaischen Reinheit dargestellt und entwickelt

von Ben Rabbi

Festschrift Adolf Schwarz zum siebzigsten Geburtstage 15. Juli 1916 gewidmet von Freunden und Schülern

hrsg. von Samuel Krauss

A book of jewish thoughts

selected and arr. by the Chief Rabbi (J. H. Hertz)

Sendschreiben Emet me-erets 2 : oder Wahrheit aus dem Heiligen Lande, 2

[Pedikim und Amarcalim der israelitischen Gemeinden im heiligen Lande residirend in Amsterdam]

Ein neues Licht über Zion : ein Appell an die Lauen in Israel zur Erweckung ihrer Herzen für Zion

von L. Aronsohn

The story of the Jewish people being a history of the Jewish people since bible times : with maps and numerous Ill. in 3 vol.

by Jack M. Myers. With a pref. note by the chief rabbi

Ancient Semitic Codes and the Mosaic legislation

contributed by the Very Rev, the Chief Rabbi (J. H. Hertz)

Vom lebendigen Hebräisch

von E. M. Lipschütz

Address

by the Chief Rabbi [Joseph Herman Hertz]