Quantification of the histological staining images gives important insights in biomedical research. In wet lab, it is common to have some stains off the target to become unwanted noisy stains during t...
Oral cancer is the sixth most common kind of human cancer. Brush cytology for counting Argyrophilic Nucleolar Organizer Regions (AgNORs) can help early mouth cancer detection, lowering patient mortali...
We systematically defined, trained and tested 102 CNNs in the search for a high-performing solution. This included the evaluation of 51 network architectures combining 17 encoders with 3 decoders and ...
The best performing CNN model on the test dataset consisted of a DenseNet-169 + LinkNet with Focal Loss (DenseNet-169 as encoder and LinkNet as decoder). It obtained a Dice score of 0.90 and intersect...
CNN-based joint segmentation and quantification of nuclei and NORs in AgNOR-stained images achieves expert-like performance levels, while being orders of magnitude faster than the later. Our solution ...
Parental perceptions of staining due to silver diamine fluoride (SDF) could affect its utilization in paediatric dentistry. This study represents the second part of a wider project focused on SDF esth...
To evaluate parental acceptance of SDF staining in Italy and to assess whether the parent's level of acceptance depends on location, child's behavior, or demographic background....
A cross-sectional study was conducted among Italian parents of children attending two university dental clinics. We used a validated Italian version of the questionnaire "Parental Perceptions of Silve...
Two hundred and thirty-four parents took part in the survey. Of parents, 65.4% considered the staining on posterior teeth esthetically "acceptable" or "somewhat acceptable," and 19.3% on anterior teet...
Staining on posterior teeth is more acceptable to parents than staining on anterior teeth. Level of acceptance on anterior teeth increases when sedation or general anesthesia is the alternative for th...
Staining after silver diamine fluoride (SDF) treatment limits treatment acceptability but is also used as a clinical indicator of lesion stability. Potassium iodide (KI) has been postulated to modify ...
One hundred carious lesions in primary teeth were treated with SDF + KI (Riva Star, SDI) and followed up over 6 months. Lesion shade was determined using standardised intraoral photography and broadly...
One hundred valid observations were analysed on 129 lesions included in the study. Lesions were excluded if subsequently restored (n = 15), teeth exfoliated (n = 2), exhibited pulpal exposure (n = 1),...
Carious lesions exhibited clinically significant changes in colour after application of SDF + KI, primarily attributed to differences in L* of lesions over the 6 months....
The brain is built of neurons supported by myelin, a fatty substance that improves cellular communication. Noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now able to measure brain structure like myel...
Here we present work in small and large biomedical model mammals to standardize a silver impregnation method as a high-throughput histological myelin visualization procedure. Specifically, we built a ...
The staining response curves show optimal staining with a single exposure across taxa when incubation and clearing epochs are held to within 3 to 9minutes. We show that clearing was slower in mounted ...
We developed a batch processing approach to increase throughput while ensuring reproducibility and demonstrate the optimal conditions for fine myelinated fiber morphology visualization with short cycl...
We present our optimized protocol to reveal mesoscale neuroanatomical myelin content in histology across mammals. This standard staining procedure will facilitate multiscale analyses of myelin content...
The black staining effect of silver-containing solutions for use to arrest caries can have a negative aesthetic impact on children and parents. This study aims to assess the staining effects of Silver...
Forty-four extracted carious primary molars were collected and randomly divided into four groups (n = 11). The carious tissue in all teeth was removed using a chemo-mechanical caries removal agent wit...
The SDF solution induced statistically significant black staining (p = 0.013) and a decrease in L* value (p < 0.001) on the compomer material compared to the other groups over time....
It was observed that SDF/KI has the potential to reduce the black staining effect of SDF, though not entirely. Novel experimental solutions like NSF may offer an alternative to counteract the staining...
this in vitro study aimed to evaluate the effect of three different chemical agents on stain removal and mineral uptake of artificial dentin caries (ADC) lesions treated with silver diamine fluoride (...
baseline L*a*b* values were determined in polished human permanent dentin blocks, and ADC lesions were induced with an acid gel for 1 week. Samples were assigned to four groups: three groups where hal...
this in vitro study showed mineral uptake effect in ACD within 24h after SDF application and the ability of hydrogen peroxide to partially remove (reduction of 24%) the staining caused by SDF without ...
to investigate whether baseline mineral distribution modulates the ability of silver diammine fluoride (SDF) to remineralize and stain enamel caries lesions....
This laboratory study followed a 3 [treatment: SDF/fluoride varnish (FV)/deionized water (DIW)] ×3 [lesion protocol: methylcellulose (MeC)/hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC)/Carbopol 907 (C907)] factorial de...
The treatment×lesion protocol interaction was significant for ΔΔZ (p<0.01) and ΔL*...
High fluoride treatments can interfere with continuous remineralization of caries lesions due to partial arrest. Baseline lesion mineral distribution affects SDF's ability to enhance remineralization ...
SDF is being used to arrest active caries lesions extending into dentin and to treat dentin hypersensitivity. This study shed light on SDF's effect on an isolated process in dental caries only, remine...
Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) is becoming more widely recognized as a simple, cost-effective approach to minimize sensitivity and arrest caries. However, SDF results in caries that are stained black. ...
This study, Healthy Smiles, aims to evaluate the staining propensity of SDF and SDF+KI using a Nix Mini color sensor among children aged 4 to 6 years. Another objective of the study is to evaluate the...
This study is a randomized controlled trial. A total of 60 children with caries that meet the criteria of the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (code 1 or above) will be randomly as...
Enrollment started in October 2023. It is estimated that the enrollment period will be 12 months. Data collection is planned to be completed in 2024....
The presented paper describes Happy Smiles, a project that provides an opportunity to address the aesthetic inconvenience of patients without compromising the effectiveness of the SDF treatment. The t...
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