Use of Bichat"s buccal fat pad for the sealing of orosinusal communications. A presentation of 8 cases

Objectives: To determine the efficacy of the pediculate flap with the buccal fat pad in the sealing of orosinusal communications, describe the surgical technique used, and report the main complications. Patients and method: A retrospective study was made of 8 patients seen in the Service of Oral Surgery of the University of Barcelona Dental Clinic (Spain) for the treatment of orosinusal communications between the years 2007 and 2009. In all cases a pediculate flap with the buccal fat pad was used to solve the problem. Results: All of the orosinusal communications were successfully resolved with this technique. The immediate postoperative complications were pain (37.5%), inflammation (37.5%), edema (32.5%), trismus (37.5%), halitosis (14.3%), suppuration (12.5%) and rhinorrhea (12.5%). Conclusions: The use of Bichat"s buccal fat pad is not regarded as the technique of choice for sealing small to medium sized orosinusal communications. However, in the case of large communications, it is a good option, and the results obtained are optimum.

Catholic Confession of Sins as Third-Party Moral Enforcement

Catholicism has built up a legalistic religion based on two pillars: salvation by works and 'auricular' confession of sins to a priest with judicial functions. Since the Reformation, many consider auricular confession inferior to less institutional and more individual conceptions of faith. This article analyzes how all these historical solutions trade off specialization advantages against exchange costs to produce moral enforcement. After showing the behavioral foundations of confession and the adaptiveness of its historical evolution, it tests hypotheses on its efficacy, exploitation and opportunity cost. Econometric evidence supports the efficacy but not the exploitative character of Catholic confession. It also explains its secular decline as a consequence of two factors. First, the rise in education, which makes moral self-enforcement less costly. Second, the productivity gap suffered by confession, given its necessarily interpersonal nature.

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Vices and virtues, being a soul's confession of its sins with reason's description of the virtues. A middle-English dialogue of about 1200 A.D.

Includes index.

The Confession of faith, the Larger and Shorter catechisms, with the Scripture-proofs at large. Together with the Sum of saving knowledge (contain'd in the Holy Scriptures, and held forth in the said Confession and Catechisms) and Practical use thereof, Covenants national and Solemn league, Acknowledgement of sins and Engagement to duties, Directories, Form of church-government, & c. Of publick authority in the Church of Scotland. With Acts of Assembly and Parliament, relative to, and approbative of, the same.

Each pt. has special t.-p.

The pestilence : a punishment for public sins : a sermon, preached in the Middle Dutch Church, Nov. 17, 1822 : after the cessation of the yellow fever, which prevailed in New-York in 1822.

Shaw & Shoemaker

Splendid sins. A letter addressed to His Grace the Duke of Wellington.

Pamphlet.

The sins of the father : a romance of the South /

Mode of access: Internet.

Man in the middle; conversations of a tempted soul with two voices on the seven deadly sins,

Mode of access: Internet.

Tales of the seven deadly sins; being the Confessio amantis of John Gower,

Mode of access: Internet.

The sins of the fathers,

Introduction.--Imperialism.--The quantitative standard.--Materialism.

Old sins in new clothes /

Mode of access: Internet.