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Self-Reported Speech Outcomes in Oral Cavity Cancer.
[BACKGROUND] Individuals with oral cavity cancer (OCC) have negatively impacted functional status and quality of life. Little is known regarding patients' perspectives of their speech impairments. This study compared self-reported speech fu…
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Patient Perceived Experience of Automated Voice Assistants in Oral Cavity Cancer.
[OBJECTIVE] Effective communication with humans and automated voice assistants (AVA) is essential for full participation in modern life. Because AVA relies on intelligible speech, individuals with speech impairments, such as those treated f…
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Reconstruction of multiple volar finger defects with a single-pedicle five-lobed free SCIP flap: a case report of two patients.
[BACKGROUND] The management of extensive volar soft tissue defects in multiple fingers remains challenging for plastic surgeons. To date, although various types of flaps have been developed as reconstruction options, the applications remain…
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Combined Genioplasty and External Oblique Line Grafting: An Innovative Method to Improve Lower Facial Contour.
[BACKGROUND] Microgenia and the accompanying plump cheeks or hamster-like facial contour are all unattractive appearances among the Asian. Genioplasty with autogenous bone grafting is one of the effective ways to improve microgenia, in whic…
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Reliability and Validity Evaluation of the Chin Augmentation With Medpor Using FACE-Q Scales Effectiveness.
[BACKGROUND] Chin augmentation (CA) is important treatment modality for microgenia. The use of implantable alloplastic biomaterials in CA grows in popularity, and there is no verifiable documentation of patients' satisfaction about CA with …
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Inhibition of Rac1 reverses enzalutamide resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Enzalutamide, an androgen receptor inhibitor, has been clinically approved for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) in the United States. However, patients only benefit from enzalutamide for a short period…
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One-Year Relapse of Mandibular Distraction for Hemifacial Microsomia Using Masseteric Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections.
[BACKGROUND] The relapse of hemifacial microsomia was thought to be highly related to the soft tissue envelope around the mandible angle mainly composed by masseter and medial pterygoid. According to the reason, we tried to apply masseter i…
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Botulinum Toxins A and E Inflict Dynamic Destabilization on t-SNARE to Impair SNARE Assembly and Membrane Fusion.
Botulinum toxins (BoNTs) A and E block neurotransmitter release by specifically cleaving the C- terminal ends of SNAP-25, a plasma membrane SNARE protein. Here, we find that SNAP-25A and E, the cleavage products of BoNT A and E, respectivel…
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Mandibular distraction combined with orthognathic techniques for the correction of severe adult mandibular hypoplasia.
[BACKGROUND] Mandibular hypoplasia may result from congenital deformities or trauma or infection during the early stage of facial skeleton development. Deficiencies in the growth of the mandible can not only cause various degrees of facial …
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[Mandibular distraction combined with orthognathic techniques for the correction of adult hemifacial microsomia].
[OBJECTIVE] To study the combination of Mandibular distraction and orthognathic techniques for the reconstruction of adult hemifacial microsomia. [METHODS] The three-dimensional CT reconstruction data was used with Mimics for preoperation …
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[Skeleton and soft tissue contour reconstruction for severe progressive hemifacial atrophy].
[OBJECTIVE] To sum up the various procedures for skeleton and soft tissue contour reconstruction in severe progressive hemifacial atrophy. [METHODS] From Jan 2004 to May 2012, 25 patients with severe progressive hemifacial atrophy underwen…
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Breast implants and risk of neurologic disease: a population-based cohort study in Sweden.
[OBJECTIVE] To examine the risk of neurologic disorders among women with breast implants. [BACKGROUND] Case reports in the literature have raised concern about a possible link between silicone breast implants and some types of neurologic d…
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Risk of connective tissue disease and related disorders among women with breast implants: a nation-wide retrospective cohort study in Sweden.
[OBJECTIVE] To examine the relation between connective tissue disease and related conditions and breast implants. [DESIGN] Retrospective cohort study of all women in the Swedish national inpatient registry who underwent breast augmentation…