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    Crown lengthening is an important and often necessary procedure in dental practice. Crown lengthening procedures can be performed for either esthetic or functional purposes. In situations where patients present with a gummy smile, excessive gingival display or an uneven gingival margin, the crown can be lengthened to improve esthetic appearance. In cases where the crown has been severely damaged by subgingival fracture, carious lesions or excessive wear, the crown will need to be lengthened in order

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    Need Dental Reconstruction? Why Use Titanium Dental Implants Has your dentist recommended that you need dental reconstruction to fix the problems going on with your mouth? If so, you will be considering the multiple methods that can be used to take care of it. One of those methods is to replace some of your teeth with titanium dental implants. While the procedure is more expensive than other reconstructive options, it can provide you with the following benefits. Appearance Boost One benefit that

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    Have A Cross Bite? Know How To Correct It With Braces Are your teeth misaligned and causing you to hide your smile? It may be from you having a crossbite. Thankfully, this is a problem that can be fixed by a dentist. Once they find out if you have an anterior or posterior crossbite, they can take the proper steps to get rid of it. What Are Anterior And Posterior Crossbites? A crossbite will cause your teeth to be misaligned, either in the rear of your mouth or with the front teeth. When the misalignment

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    of all these problems. Now, with the opportunity of having dental implants, you can enjoy smiling with naturally looking and feeling teeth. There probably are many people who find the idea of an implant a bit frightening, but the truth is that there is nothing to be scared of, since both the procedure and the recovery are far from being difficult or painful. Regain Your Confidence and Comfort without Pain Getting an implant might scare many people because it involves a surgery.

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    sometimes tampering with a patient's mind might have a positive effect. Sticking to my thesis in the previous paper I still feel that we as humans have control of our minds. But the mind and the brain are two different things. Although we might have control of our minds I don't think we have control of our brain. In Slater’s essay, she starts off by introducing Mario Della Grotta describing him as ordinary. “He seems, on first appearance, like the kind of guy who swaggers his way through the world, but

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    Tyler and Peyton’s Cochlear Implants Being able to hear is something I think most people take for granted. But what if you cannot hear? On July 15, 2015, I was afforded the opportunity to observe eight-year-old Braydon Smith and five-year-old Peyton Smith, who were born deaf. Their names were changed to protect their identity. Their younger sister, Mackenzie, whose name was also changed to protect her identity, did not have any issues with her hearing. I met with both boys and their mother

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    John Donoghue, head of the Brain Science program at Brown University is helping paraplegics move with a brain implant that interprets the patient’s desires and directs hardware to accomplish it. Donoghue spent part of his youth in a wheelchair and because of that understands the frustration of not being able to “do things that the rest of the world are doing.” (Dunn) Instead of directly addressing people’s mobility issues, Donoghue was led to ask questions about the brains role in mobility. "I want

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    technology, people can restore their damaged tissue or neural system by tissue regeneration and prosthetic replacement. This essay will introduce the background of neural interface and three types of basic brain-machine interfaces, furthermore, Generation of communication and control signals in the brain and emerging opportunities of neural interfaces will be introduced in this research essay. 2. Background The area of neural interfaces is really wide, any connections between the neural system and the

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    If the ear drum and middle ear are functioning properly, patients may benefit from a cochlear implant - a thin electrode is inserted in the cochlea, it stimulates electricity through a tiny microprocessor which is placed under behind the ear, under the skin. 3) Mixed hearing loss. This is a combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss

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    Reviewer 2: Ayelet Kershenbaum ABSTRACTS Flipsen Jr, P., & Parker, R. G. (2008). Phonological patterns in the conversational speech of children with cochlear implants. Journal of Communication Disorders, 41(4), 337-357. Purpose: To analyze phonological patterns in conversational speech of children with cochlear implants to determine the prevalence of developmental and non-developmental patterns. Methods: Conversational speech samples of six children who were pre-lingually

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