... as a never-ending problem in this chapter is approached in the following sections, describing relevant aspects of the state of the art on coronal caries. In the last 50 years, remarkable reductions in caries prevalence in children and adults have been observed in many developed and some developing...

... Abstract The kanji and kana (or kanji vs. kana) problem in the Japanese language denotes the dissociation between kanji (morphograms) and kana (phonograms) in reading/comprehension and writing. Since paragraphia of kana in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was first reported in 1893...

... is that the published literature will tend to overestimate the benefit of a given intervention and underreport harm to patients. This is of obvious concern. Outcome reporting bias is acknowledged as a serious problem in medicine [ 18 ] but has not been assessed in dentistry. Incomplete information in the trial...

... and availability. In essence, while biotechnology offers some tantalizing technological prospects, the difficulties of getting the corresponding benefits to the most needy have dampened some of the enthusiasm. Introduction Hunger is a pervasive 21st-century problem. While the proportion of the global...

... by the problem Difficulties with travel to therapy time commitment to therapy or expense of therapy Impact of Diagnosis of Dysphagia on Prognosis The prevalence of dysphagia in the hospital setting is not completely known. Data collection processes can yield varying outcomes and likely...

... to that of elderly patients is increasingly recognized among HIV-infected patients. In spite of the fact that HCV coinfection in HIV patients is a very common problem, affecting approximately 30% of HIV-infected patients, information about the role of HCV in renal diseases of HIV-infected patients is scant. A large...

... Abstract Acute kidney injury (AKI) occurring after cardiac surgery is common and extends intensive care unit and hospital length of stay, as well as increases mortality rates. Its causes are multifactorial, and are not limited to ischemia and nephrotoxin administration. One particular problem...

... Abstract The prevention and treatment of childhood obesity have proven to be extremelydifficult problems. Since the equation for maintaining energy balance is an extremelysimple one, having only two terms, ‘energy in’ and ‘energy out’, the difficulties encounteredin its application for obesity...