If you have a healthy mouth, there should be less than a 2- to 3-millimeter (mm) pocket (rift) between the base of your teeth and gums. Gum disease can increase the size of these pockets. When the gap ...

Laser gum surgery offers a minimally invasive alternative to traditional scalpel-based procedures, significantly reducing ...

The pathologist should first understand cystic odontogenic lesions from the perspective of the oral surgeon and dentist. As an example, an impacted third molar is seen on the radiograph in Figure 1.

Intermittent administration of teriparatide, a drug composed of the first 34 amino acids of parathyroid hormone, has anabolic effects on bone. Although teriparatide has been evaluated for the ...

1 Orthopaedic Department, Musculoskeletal Care Centre, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2 Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Background: Chronic ...

A useful reminder of a rare occurrence. The diagnosis relies on radiology and clinical findings alone. Careful follow-up of the patient is required. We present a rare case of florid cemento-osseous ...

Osseous sarcoidosis is an uncommon manifestation of sarcoidosis that can mimic metastatic bone disease on imaging. Both osseous sarcoidosis and bone metastases from breast cancer can present as lytic, ...

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A 32-year-old woman with a history of an early pregnancy loss followed by a term birth presented to her gynecologist with difficulty conceiving and amenorrhea. Her second pregnancy, the live birth, ...

Efficacy of anamorelin in cachectic patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and low BMI ( 20 kg/m2): Post-hoc analysis of two phase III studies. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ...

2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kantonsspital Liestal, Liestal, Switzerland Objective The osseous ankle configuration ...