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Purpose: Intraoral defects in the maxilla cause communication with the nasopharyngeal complex. The surgically removed palate can have a devastating effect on the appearance and speech of the patient. Obturators allow patients to eat and drink without any suspicion of food entering the oroantral cavities/ pharynx during mastication. This clinical report describes fabrication of a closed hollow bulb obturator using the two-piece double flask technique. Method(s): After the final teeth arrangement was completed, teeth over the defect were removed and separately processed using heat cure acrylic resin. Both the segments are combined by autopolymerizing acrylic resin to form a single hollow-bodied obturator. Conclusion(s): This technique uses a double flasking method of the two segments to control the thickness of the bulb in the defect area, thus decreasing the weight of the obturator.Copyright © 2020 Ubiquity Press. All rights reserved.
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The role of embedded systems in medical applications is very crucial. The development of such applications made by ASICs is much expensive and includes high NRE cost and no enhancements are possible because they are one-time programmable. Therefore, a better solution is available with reconfigurable PLDs. In the present pandemic Covid 19 situation, there is a requirement for a lot of medical facilities at a lower cost with accurate monitoring and controlling is required. Therefore, the proposed medical application is an ICU monitoring and control system with a WiFi network, implemented on a Zynq architecture-based FPGA development board. The functionality of this system is, the ICU environmental parameters are monitored and displayed on OLED display and control of various appliances remotely within the vicinity of WiFi network. Such systems are useful in both Government and corporate hospitals to have the flexibility and smooth monitoring of ICUs. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.