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    • Maturana Ramírez, Andrea; Espinoza Santander, Iris; Reyes, Montserrat; Aitken, Juan Pablo; Aguayo, Francisco; Hartel, Steffen; Rojas Alcayaga, Gonzalo (E-Century Publishing Corp., 2015)
      Introduction: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is characterized by local invasion and the development of cervical metastasis. In the tongue, an association between the invasion of the lymphatic vessels and the development ...
    • Morales, Alicia; Carvajal Pavez, Paola; Romanelli, Hugo; Gómez, Mariel; Loha, Cristina; Esper, María E.; Musso, Graciela; Ardila, Carlos M.; Duque, Andrés; Medina, Marco; Bueno, Luis; Andrade, Ernesto; Mendoza, Carolina; Gamonal Aravena, Jorge Antonio (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      Aim: To describe the prevalence, severity and extension of clinical attachment loss (CAL) and to study the predictors in 15- to 19-year-old adolescents from high schools in the Latin America. Materials and Methods: A ...
    • Lanis, Alejandro; Padial Molina, Miguel; Selman, Andrea; Álvarez del Canto, Orlando (Quintessence Publishing, 2015)
      Passive fit between prosthesis and implants or abutments is a significant factor in preventing mechanical and biologic failures of implant-supported prostheses. Therefore, impression techniques must transfer the 3D implant ...
    • Toro Ibacache, Viviana; Zapata Muñoz, Víctor; O’Higgins, Paul (Elsevier, 2016)
      The human skull is gracile when compared to many Middle Pleistocene hominins. It has been argued that it is less able to generate and withstand high masticatory forces, and that the morphology of the lower portion of the ...
    • Schandelmaier, Stefan; Elm, Erik von; You, John J.; Bluemle, Anette; Tomonaga, Yuki; Lamontagne, Francois; Saccilotto, Ramón; Amstutz, Alain; Bengough, Theresa; Meerpohl, Joerg J.; Stegert, Mihaela; Olu, Kelechi K.; Tikkinen, Kari A. O.; Neumann, Ignacio; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Faulhaber, Markus; Mulla, Sohail M.; Mertz, Dominik; Akl, Elie A.; Sun, Xin; Bassler, Dirk; Busse, Jason W.; Ferreira González, Ignacio; Nordmann, Alain; Gloy, Viktoria; Raatz, Heike; Moja, Lorenzo; Rosenthal, Rachel; Ebrahim, Shanil; Vandvik, Per O.; Johnston, Bradley C.; Walter, Martin A.; Burnand, Bernard; Schwenkglenks, Matthias; Hemkens, Lars G.; Cook, Deborah J.; Meade, Maureen O.; Bucher, Heiner C.; Kasenda, Benjamin; Briel, Matthias (Lippicott Williams & Wilkins, 2016)
      Objectives: Randomized clinical trials that enroll patients in critical or emergency care (acute care) setting are challenging because of narrow time windows for recruitment and the inability of many patients to provide ...
    • Nguyen, Geoffrey C.; Smalley, Walter E.; Swaroop Vege, Santhi; Carrasco Labra, Alonso (Elsevier, 2016)
      This article has an accompanying continuing medical education activity on page e17. Learning Objective: Upon completion of this test, successful learners will be able to: (1) learn first-line treatment for the induction ...
    • Covarrubias Gallardo, Cristián; Arroyo Ibacache, Fabiola; Balanda Maluenda, Consuelo; Neira Jara, Miguel; Von Marttens Castro, Alfredo; Caviedes Fernández, Pablo; Rodríguez, Juan Pablo; Urra, Carla (Hindawi Publishing, 2015)
      The effect of the nanoscale structure of bioceramics on their in vitro bioactivity and capacity to osteogenically differentiate stem cell is studied. Nanoparticles of hydroxyapatite (nHA), bioactive glass (nBG), nanoporous ...
    • Pardi, Darrell S.; Tremaine, William J.; Carrasco Labra, Alonso (AGA Institute, 2016)
    • Johnston, Bradley C.; Ebrahim, Shanil; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Furukawa, Toshi A.; Patrick, Donald L.; Crawford, Mark W.; Hemmelgarn, Brenda R.; Schunemann, Holger J.; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Nesrallah, Gihad (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)
      Introduction Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are often the outcomes of greatest importance to patients. The minimally important difference (MID) provides a measure of the smallest change in the PRO that patients perceive ...
    • Fariña Sirandoni, Rodrigo; Campos, Pia; Beytia, Javiera; Martinez, Benjamín (WB Saunders, 2015)
      Reconstruction of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) for congenital or acquired deformities is a major challenge for maxillofacial surgeons. The alternatives for reconstructing the TMJ include free grafts (costochondral, ...
    • Jara, J. A.; López Muñoz, R. (Elsevier, 2015)
      For decades, metformin has been the first-line drug for the treatment of type II diabetes mellitus, and it thus is the most widely prescribed antihyperglycemic drug. Retrospective studies associate the use of metformin ...
    • Alvarez Rivas, Carla; Benítez Cravero, Alvaro; Rojas, Leticia; Pujol, Myriam; Carvajal Pavez, Paola; Díaz Zúñiga, Jaime; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Univ Sao Paulo Fac Odontologia Bauru, 2015)
      In Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, different serotypes have been described based on LPS antigenicity. Recently, our research group has reported a differential immunogenicity when T lymphocytes were stimulated with ...
    • Sale, Joanna E. M; Amin, Maryam; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Glick, Michael; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Azarpazhooh, Amir (Amer Dental Assoc, 2015)
      Background and Overview. Because of qualitative researchers' abilities to explore social problems and to understand the perspective of patients, qualitative research studies are useful to provide insight about patients' ...
    • Abrahamyan, Lusine; Pechlivanoglou, Petros; Krahn, Murray; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Glick, Michael; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Azarpazhooh, Amir (American Dental Association, 2015)
      Background and Overview. In everyday practice, dentists face clinical decisions for which they need to consider both treatment consequences (that is, benefits and harms) and costs. Economic analysis is a study design in ...
    • Akl, Elie A.; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Neumann, Ignacio; Johnston, Bradley C.; Sun, Xin; Briel, Matthias; Busse, Jason W.; Ebrahim, Shanil; Granados, Carlos E.; Iorio, Alfonso; Irfan, Affan; Martínez García, Laura; Mustafa, Reem A.; Ramírez Morera, Anggie; Selva, Anna; Solà, Iván; Sanabria, Andrea Juliana; Tikkinen, Kari A. O.; Vandvik, Per O.; Vernooij, Robin W. M.; Zazueta, Oscar E.; Zhou, Qi; Guyatt, Gordon H.; Alonso Coello, Pablo (BMJ, 2015)
      Objectives: To describe how systematic reviewers are reporting missing data for dichotomous outcomes, handling them in the analysis and assessing the risk of associated bias. Methods: We searched MEDLINE and the Cochrane ...
    • Mustafa, Reem; Wiercioch, Wojtek; Santesso, Nancy; Cheung, Adrienne; Prediger, Bárbara; Baldeh, Tejan; Carrasco Labra, Alonso; Brignardello Petersen, Romina; Neumann, Ignacio; Bossuyt, Patrick; Garg, A.; Lelgemann, Monika; Bühler, Diedrich; Brozek, Jan; Schünemann, Holger (PLOS One, 2015)
      Objective:To develop guidance on what information to include and how to present it in tables summarizing the evidence from systematic reviews of test accuracy following the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development ...
    • Moncada, G.; Fernández Godoy, Eduardo; Mena, K.; Martin, J.; Vildósola Grez, Patricio; Oliveira, Osmir Batista; Estay Larenas, Juan; Mjoer, I. A.; Gordan, V. V. (Elsevier, 2015)
      The aim of this prospective and blind clinical trial was to assess the effectiveness of sealing localized marginal defects of amalgam restoration that were initially scheduled to be replaced. A cohort of twenty six ...
    • Geus, Juliana L. de; De Lara, M. B.; Hanzen, T. A.; Fernández Godoy, Eduardo; Loguercio, Alessandro D.; Kossatz, Stella; Reis, Alessandra (Elsevier, 2015)
      Objective: This clinical study evaluated the color longevity after one-year of at-home bleaching with 10% carbamide peroxide (CP) in smokers and nonsmokers. Methods: Sixty patients, 30 smokers and 30 non-smokers were ...
    • Molina Berríos, Alfredo Enrique; Madariaga, F.; Urzúa Orellana, Blanca; Ramires Fernández, R.; Jara Sandoval, José; Fernández Soto, R.; Zárate, C.; Herreros, E. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
    • Goulart, D. R.; Muñoz, P.; Olate, S.; Moraes, M. de; Fariña Sirandoni, Rodrigo (Churchill Livingstone, 2015)
      The aim of this research was to compare the condylar morphology of patients with unilateral condylar hyperplasia (UCH) and patients with a class III skeletal relationship using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). A ...