Guided tissue regeneration with and without decalcified freeze-dried bone in mandibular Class II furcation invasions.

The purpose of this study was to compare periodontal soft and hard tissue repair using expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) membranes with and without decalcified freeze-dried cortical bone allografts (DFDBA). Six patients with 17 mandibular Class II buccal molar furcal invasions received oral hygiene instructions followed by scaling and root planing. Baseline soft tissue measurements with periodontal probes were made to assess probing depths (PD), recession (REC), and probing attachment levels (PAL). After non-surgical therapy, 10 teeth were randomly selected as test sites (ePTFE + DFDBA) and 7 as controls (ePTFE alone). Full-thickness flaps were elevated, and open surgical measurements were made to determine alveolar crestal height (CEJ-AC) and vertical (CEJ-BDF) and horizontal (HPDF) defect depth. The ePTFE membranes were removed at 6 weeks. After 6 months, all sites were reentered and both soft tissue and open surgical measurements recorded. The following mean changes (mm) were found for ePTFE and ePTFE + DFDBA treated sites respectively: decreased PD = 1.5, 2.2; increased REC = 1.3, 1.3; loss(-)/gain PAL = -0.2, 0.8; decreased CEJ-BDF = 3.8, 5.0; increased CEJ-AC = 0.5, 0.4; and decreased HPDF = 2.3, 2.4. None of the changes were statistically significant. The addition of DFDBA to the GTR procedure did not significantly improve any of the mean soft tissue and open surgical measurements between control (ePTFE alone) and test (ePTFE+DFDBA) groups in mandibular Class II buccal furcations. Both treatment procedures resulted in significant decreases in PD, CEJ-BDF, and HPDF and a significant increase in REC. There were no differences for PAL and CEJ-AC within control and test groups seen with this sample. Larger randomized clinical trials are needed to more fully evaluate whether combined graft and GTR procedures offer an advantage over GTR alone.

Reclaiming sexuality in female incest survivors.

This paper presents a comparison of female incest survivor sex therapy patients and other sex therapy patients. The focus is on family-of-origin dynamics and processes of teaching about sexuality, self-image and resulting interpersonal issues. The study also discusses nonincest survivor and incest survivor sex therapy clients with low sexual desire, their evaluation and treatment.

Tunable, coherent radiation in the Lyman-alpha region (1210-1290 A) using magnesium vapor.

Tunable, coherent vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) radiation has been produced in the 1210-1290-A region by four-wave sum mixing in magnesium vapor. This important extension of the wavelength range of tunable radiation was achieved using KrF-laser-pumped uv dye lasers, whose sum frequency then directly overlapped the first odd-parity autoionizing state in magnesium. With powers of 10 kW in the fundamental dye-laser beams, a flux >/=10(8) photons per pulse was produced at Lyman-alpha, with higher intensities at the longer wavelengths.

Oral ingestion of narcotic analgesics by rats.

Rats drank solutions of narcotic analgesics as the only drinking fluid available in their cages. Relative to their daily water intake before the drug solutions were introduced, the rats drank more etonitazene solution, less methadone solution, and about the same volume of morphine, meperidine and levorphanol solution as water, although some rats would not drink the higher concentrations of morphine (1.0 mg/ml), levorphanol (1.0 mg/ml) and methadone (1.0 mg/ml). When naloxone (1.0 mg/kg) was administered after 12 days of drinking the drug solutions, the severity of the abstinence syndromes based on scoring of symptoms and on weight loss was morphine greater than or equal to etonitazine greater than levorphanol greater than meperidine greater than methadone. The animals showing the most severe syndrome after naloxone usually consumed more drug solution than usual during the next 24 hours, so that body weights were normal at the end of the 24-hour period. Nonprecipitated abstinence was also studied in these rats by replacing the drug solutions with water 3 to 5 days after the naloxone injection. Rats that had been drinking morphine, etonitazene and levorphanol lost weight for 2 or 3 days and then began to regain their lost weight. In contrast, rats which had been switched from methadone and meperidine solutions to water gained weight rapidly. Morphine and etonitazene drinkers which had been switched to water drank a lesser volume of water than they had been drinking of drug solution whereas some ex-methadone drinkers drank more water.