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    • Candia, Jorge; Fernández, Alejandra; Somarriva, Carolina; Horna Campos, Olivia (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2018-04)
      Background: Oral cancer is the 15th most common cause of cancer death in the world. In Chile, 1% of all cancer deaths are related to oral and pharyngeal cancer. Aim: To determine mortality rates for oral cancer in Chile ...
    • Letelier, C.; Gunther, M.; Alarcón, A.; Vera, P.; Kakarieka, Elena; Pantoja Parada, Pedro (Elsevier, 2018-06)
      Introduction: Aggressive paediatric myofibromatosis is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by fibroblastic proliferation from cells originated in muscle-aponeurotic tissue. Its etiology is unknown, and the average ...
    • Kahale, Lara; Diab, Batoul; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Agarwal, Arnav; Mustafa, Reem; Kwong, Joey; Neumann, Ignacio; Li, Ling; Cruz Lopes, Luciane; Briel, Matthias; Busse, Jason; Lorio, Alfonso; Vandvik, Per Olav; Alexander, Paul; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Akl, Elie (Elsevier, 2018-03-02)
      Objectives: To describe how systematic review authors report and address categories of participants with potential missing outcome data of trial participants. Study Design and Setting: Methodological survey of systematic ...
    • Cavalla Ruiz, Ian; Biguetti, Claudia; Melchiades, Jessica; Tabanez, Andre; Soriani Azevedo, Michelle; Favaro Trombone, Ana; Faveri, Marcelo; Feres, Magda; Garlet, Gustavo (MDPI, 2018-06)
      Chronic periodontitis is the most prevalent form of inflammatory destructive bone disease and has been affecting humans since antiquity. Evidence suggest that genetic factors can highly influence periodontitis risk, ...
    • Angel Aguirre, Pablo; Bersezio Miranda, Cristian; Estay, J.; Werner, Andrea; Retamal, Hector; Araya, Constanza; Martín, Javier; Fernández Godoy, Eduardo (Quintessence Publishing, 2018-08)
      Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the bleaching efficacy and impact on psychosocial and esthetics self-perception of a low-concentration (6%) hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) gel compared with a conventional (37.5%) ...
    • Hernández Ríos, Patricia; Espinoza Santander, Iris; Salinas, Macarena; Rodríguez Castro, Fernando; Baeza, Mauricio; Hernández, Marcela (BMC, 2018-06-19)
      Background: Many gingival lesions are not induced by plaque. The aim of this study was to analyze the frequency of biopsied non-plaque-induced gingival lesions (NPIGL) in a Chilean population. Methods: One thousand ...
    • Fariña, R.; Mebus, C.; Mayer, C.; Torrealba, R.; Moreno, E. (Churchill Livingstone, 2018)
      The objective of this study was to propose a treatment protocol for patients with lateral prognathism based on the unilateral sagittal split ramus osteotomy (USSRO). This was a prospective study involving 31 patients with ...
    • Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Fitton, Laura C.; Toro Ibacache, Viviana; Stringer, Chris B.; Lacruz, Rodrigo S.; Bromage, Timothy G.; O'Higgins, Paul (Elsevier, 2018)
      Modern humans have smaller faces relative to Middle and Late Pleistocene members of the genus Homo. While facial reduction and differences in shape have been shown to increase biting efficiency in Homo sapiens relative to ...
    • Estay Larenas, Juan; Casielles, Javier Martin; Vildósola Grez, Patricio; Villablanca Martínez, Claudia Alejandra; Mjor, Ivar A.; Oliveira, Osmir Batista; Laske, Mark; Loomans, Bas A.; Ferrarezi de Andrade, Marcelo; Moncada Cortés, Gustavo; Gordan, Valeria V.; Opdam, Niek J. M; Fernández Godoy, Eduardo (Mosher & Linder, 2018)
      Purpose: To evaluate sealed amalgam and resin-based composite restorations after 12 years to determine whether sealing minor defects (micro-repairs) enhanced the longevity of restorations. Methods: 34 subjects aged 18-80 ...
    • Fariña, Rodrigo; Valladares, Salvador; Raposo Castillo, Araceli; Silva, Francisco (Elsevier, 2018)
      Purpose: There are multiple conditions that may affect the development of the middle third of the face and with varying degrees of severity. The surgical treatment alternatives for major midfacial sagittal deficiencies ...
    • Goulart, Douglas; Sigua Rodriguez, Eder; Fariña Sirandoni, Rodrigo; Olate, Sergio (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018)
      The diagnosis of unilateral condylar hyperplasia (UCH) requires a combined assessment consisting of clinical, radiological, and histopathological examination. The etiology of this condition is unknown. The purpose of this ...
    • Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Johnston, Bradley C.; Jadad, Alejandro; Tomlinson, George (Elsevier, 2018)
      Objectives: To evaluate how the rank probabilities obtained from network meta -analysis (NMA) change with the use of increasingly stringent criteria for the relative effect comparing two treatments which ranks one treatment ...
    • Alvarez, Carla; Rojas Rojas, Carolina Andrea; Rojas, Leticia; Cafferata, Emilio A.; Monasterio, Gustavo; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Hindawi Ltd, 2018)
      Periodontitis is a chronic immuno-inflammatory disease in which the disruption of the balance between host and microbiota interactions is key to the onset and progression of the disease. The immune homeostasis associated ...
    • Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Bonner, Ashley; Alexander, Paul; Siemieniuk, Reed; Furukawa, Toshi; Rochwerg, Bram; Hazlewood, Glen; Alhazzani, Waleed; Mustafa, Reem; Murad, M. Hassan; Puhan, Milo; Sch€unemann, Holger; Guyatt, Gordon H. (Elsevier, 2018)
      This article describes conceptual advances of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) working group guidance to evaluate the certainty of evidence (confidence in evidence, quality of ...
    • Glatstein, Daniel A.; Bruna, Nicolás; Gallardo Benavente, Carla; Bravo, Denisse; Carro Pérez, Magali E.; Franco, Francisca; Pérez Donoso, José (ASCE-AMER SOC Civil Engineers, 2018)
      Use of microorganisms in contaminated water remediation is one of the most studied processes of recent years. The recovery of metal contaminants by converting them into high-value nanomaterials represents a scarcely explored ...
    • Cavalla Ruiz, Ian Franco; Biguetti, Claudia C.; Dionisio, Thiago J.; Azevedo, Michelle C. S.; Martins, Walter, Jr.; Santos, Carlos F.; Trombone, Ana Paula F.; Silva, Renato M.; Letra, Ariadne; Garlet, Gustavo P. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Chronic and aggressive periodontitis are infectious diseases characterized by the irreversible destruction of periodontal tissues, which is mediated by the host inflammatory immune response triggered by periodontal infection. ...
    • Donoso Hofer, Francisca; Gunther Wood, M.; Romero Romano, P.; Pezoa Opazo, N.; Fernández Toro, María de los Ángeles; Ortega Pinto, Ana (Elsevier, 2018)
      Renal osteodystrophy is a common complication of end-stage renal failure patients. It's most severe osseous complication is characterized by massive thickening of the cranial vault and facial bones, called uremic leontiasis ...
    • Cifuentes, Julio; Yanine Montaner, Nicolás; Jerez, Daniel; Barrera, Ariel; Olubanwo Agbaje, Jimoh; Politis, Constantinus (American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, 2018)
      Purpose: Healing of the inferior border of the mandible can be compromised in large advancements, leaving an unesthetic defect at the inferior border. The objective of this study was to compare different bilateral sagittal ...
    • Pinares Toledo, Jorge Alejandro; Marileo Zagal, Roberto; Bruce Castillo, Loreto; Villanueva Conejeros, Rodrigo (Springer, 2018)
      According to some authors, the buccal space is incompletely closed with no real anatomical separation from the masticator space, and also has no fascial limit toward the cranial and caudal regions. However, several other ...
    • Espinoza Santander, Iris; Navarrete, Jorge; Benedetto, Juana; Borzutzky, Arturo; Roessler, Patricia; Ortega Pinto, Ana (Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2018)
      Orofacial granulomatosis is a nonspecific term that contains a wide variety of granulomatous entities, which share a clinical and histopathological presentation. It manifests as persistent or recurrent orofacial swelling, ...