• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.751-761
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• 2018

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting choice of treatment hospital (i.e., determinants) and satisfaction with the treatment hospital, and to provide a more satisfactory and high-quality medical service for orthodontic patients. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted for approximately 1 month beginning in August 2017, involving patients who visited orthodontic dentistry clinics in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. Multiple regression analysis was performed on the results to examine factors that affected satisfaction with orthodontic treatment. Results: The determinant of dental clinics was 3.90 points overall; hospital environment and facilities were highest at 4.05, followed by dental hygienist at 3.99, and dentist at 3.97. Factors influencing satisfaction with orthodontic treatment were positively influenced by dentists (p<0.01), medical procedures (p<0.01) and medical expenses (p<0.01). Conclusions: It is important to provide comfort and convenience to patients by simplifying hospital facility management, reception, and reservation procedures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.350-352
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• 2012

최근 의료 분야 소프트웨어가 발전함에 따라 3차원 가상 모델을 이용한 의료 소프트웨어의 개발도 꾸준히 증가하는 추세이다. 치열 교정 분야는 이러한 3차원 가상 모델을 적용할 수 있는 분야 중 하나이다. 치열교정 분야에서는 3차원 가상 모델을 이용하여 부정 교합 환자의 치료 초기부터 끝까지 여러 단계의 치아이동 과정을 제공한다. 치아 이동의 각 단계별로 Stereolithographic Model이 만들어지는데, 이는 투명하고 얇은 Overlay 장치를 제작하는 기초가 된다. 투명한 재질의 Overlay 장치는 심미적이고 사용이 간편하여 많은 환자들이 선호하고 있다. Overlay 장치를 제작하는 시스템을 구축한 회사로는 Invisalign System이 가장 대표적이다. Invisalign System은 미국에 본사를 둔 회사로 한국에 지사를 두고 적극적인 마케팅을 통해 3D 치열 교정 분야의 국내시장을 거의 독점하고 있다. 독점적이다 보니 비용이 다른 교정 치료보다 2배 가까이 들고 있지만, 현재 한국에서는 개발이 적극적으로 이루어지지 않는 실정이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 환자 치아의 정확하고 과학적인 진단자료를 얻어 높은 치료비용에 대한 개선과 치료 전 과정에 대한 시뮬레이션 및 Stereolithographic Model을 미리 환자에게 제공하여 만족도를 높일 수 있는 3D치열 교정 시스템을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.40 no.9
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• pp.881-885
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• 2003

Wear and friction properties of the alumina-glass dental ceramics were evaluated in exact in vitro environment (artificial saliva at 37$^{\circ}C$), using a ball-on-disc apparatus, at contact loads from 49 N to 196 N and with the disc rotating at 120 rpm up to 10$^{6}$ cycles to investigate the wear behavior. As the load increased from 49 N to 196 N, the friction coefficient of 0.025 was maintained, however, the volumetric wear rate rose from 2.18 ${\times}$10$^{-9}$TEX>$mm^{3}$/Nㆍm to 2.35 ${\times}$10$^{-6}$TEX>$mm^{3}$/Nㆍm. Experimental results indicated that the wear behavior of the alumina-glass composites with a sliding distance of 4.4 km was a typical adhesive wear, which was applicable for orthodontia ceramic brackets.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.2743-2746
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• 2013

Background: Dilantin sodium (phenytoin) is an antiepileptic drug, which is routinely used to control generalized tonic clonic seizure and partial seizure episodes. A few case reports of oral squamous cell carcinomas arising from regions of phenytoin induced gingival overgrowth (GO), and overexpression of mitogenic factors and p53 have presented this condition as a pathology with potential to transform into malignancy. We recently investigated the genetic status of p53 and H-ras, which are known to be frequently mutated in Indian oral carcinomas in GO tissues and found them to only contain wild type sequences, which suggested a non-neoplastic nature of phenytoin induced GO. However, besides p53 and H-ras, other oncogenes and tumor suppressors such as PIK3CA, p14ARF, p16INK4a and $p21^{Waf1/Cip1}$, are frequently altered in oral squamous cell carcinoma, and hence are required to be analyzed in phenytoin induced GO tissues to be affirmative of its non-neoplastic nature. Methods: 100ng of chromosomal DNA isolated from twenty gingival overgrowth tissues were amplified with primers for exons 9 and 20 of PIK3CA, exons $1{\alpha}$, $1{\beta}$ and 2 of p16INK4a and p14ARF, and exon 2 of $p21^{Waf1/Cip1}$, in independent reactions. PCR amplicons were subsequently gel purified and eluted products were sequenced. Results: Sequencing analysis of the twenty samples of phenytoin induced gingival growth showed no mutations in the analyzed exons of PIK3CA, p14ARF, p16INK4a and $p21^{Waf1/Cip1}$. Conclusion: The present data indicate that the mutational alterations of genes, PIK3CA, p14ARF, p16INK4a and $p21^{Waf1/Cip1}$ that are frequently mutated in oral squamous cell carcinomas are rare in phenytoin induced gingival growth. Thus the findings provide further evidence that phenytoin induced gingival overgrowth as a non-neoplastic lesion, which may be considered as clinically significant given the fact that the epileptic patients are routinely administered with phenytoin for the rest of their lives to control seizure episodes.