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BACKGROUND:Location relationship between maxilary incisor labial inclination and the thickness of anterior alveolar bone displays ethnic and regional differences. OBJECTIVE:To study the correlation of alveolar bone structure and incisor labial inclinationin adolescents with skeletal class II malocclusion in Uygur and Han populations of Xinjiang, China. METHODS:Sixty Uygur and 60 Han patients at 11-16 years of age (average 13.8 years old), 32 males and 28 females, with skeletal class II malocclusion wereincluded. The thickness of anterior alveolar bone and incisor labial inclination were measuredon lateralcephalometric films, and the results were analyzed using SPSS 17.0 statistical software. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:In Han and Uygur populations, palatalalveolar bone thicknessin maxilary incisor regionwas significantly negatively correlated with the inclination of maxilary incisor (r=-0.715 for Han,r=-0.651 for Uygur,P< 0.05), while labial alveolar bone thicknessin mandibular incisor regionwas significantly positively correlated with the lower incisor inclination (r=0.902 for Han,r=0.745 for Uygur,P< 0.05). These results indicate thatthepalatal alveolar bone thicknessin maxilary incisor region decreases with the increase of the inclinationof maxilary incisor; however,thelabial alveolar bone thicknessin mandibular incisor regionincreases with the increase of the lower incisor inclination.
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OBJECTIVE To study the hospital infection among surgical system inpatients in order to work out more effective management plans concerning hospital infection.METHODS Totally 5963 surgical patients from Dec 2000 to Nov 2002 were analyzed by means of the retrospective study.RESULTS Among them there were hospital infections in 243 cases.The surgical hospital infection rate was 4.08% and the neurosurgical hospital infection rate was 5.37% which was the highest among all departments.The main part of infection mostly located in lower respiratory tract(21.30%),then were higher respiratory and urinary tracts(9.88%),incision site(10.70%),gastrointestinal tract(9.05%) and the others(6.17%).The infection rate in male patients was higher than in the females.The sex ratio was 2.2∶1.The infection rate was 4.67%.The highest infection rate after admission in hospital and at 31 to 60 days from January to March(4.95%) as well as from October to December(4.58%).The bacteriological rate was 28.40%,lower than the rate of≥50.00% demanded by the Ministry of Health.CONCLUSIONS The hospital infection in surgical patients is closely related to the departments,sex,duration of hospital stay,season and invasive clinical procedures.