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Influence of Cleft Lip and Palate on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Northern Italy: Exploring Both the Children’s and Caregivers’ Perspectives
No full textThe aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine whether parents/caregivers’ perceptions of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) differ from that of their cleft children, exploring the impact of demographic variables and cleft type on their agreement. Fifty-three primary and secondary schoolchildren, with non-syndromic orofacial cleft, and their parents answered the Child Oral Health Impact Profile (COHIP) questionnaire. Concordance between caregivers’ and children’s reports was low to moderate. Parents/caregivers had worse perceptions of OHRQoL compared to that of their children, peer interaction and functional well-being domains being statistically significantly different (p = 0.033 and p = 0.005, respectively). Cleft type, gender and parents’ country of origin seemed to be potential contributing factors of disagreement. Parents overestimated the impact of unilateral (p = 0.047) and bilateral cleft lip and palate (p = 0.021) on OHRQoL, and they rated more poorly than their male children did. Italian parents were more concerned about the functional well-being of their children (p = 0.014), and foreign parents about peer interaction (p = 0.010) and school environment (p = 0.012) dimensions. These findings suggest that parental assessment of OHRQoL cannot replace that of school-aged children, but they are complementary as they cover different, but equally relevant perspectives
Dentoskeletal features and growth pattern in Beckwith-Wiedemann spectrum: is surgical tongue reduction always necessary?
No full textObjectivesThe role of tongue reduction surgery (TRS) in preventing excessive mandibular growth and anterior open bite in children with Beckwith-Wiedemann Spectrum (BWSp) is still controversial. This cross-sectional study aimed at comparing craniofacial growth pattern in children affected by BWSp either treated or not treated with early TRS for severe macroglossia. Considering the invasive nature of such surgery, the present study could help in clarifying the need for TRS to reduce or prevent growth disturbances.Materials and methodsOrthopantomography and lateral skull x-ray images were taken either from surgically treated or non-surgically treated patients, aged 5 to 8 years, to compare dentoskeletal features and craniofacial growth by cephalometric analysis. Molecular testing results were collected from their medical records.ResultsEighteen BWSp patients were consecutively recruited: 8 underwent TRS at 14.9 +/- 2.2 months of age, while 10 did not. Anterior open bite and dental class III were more frequently observed in the surgically treated group, but none showed skeletal class III. No statistically significant differences were observed in growth pattern, but children treated with TRS showed a tendency towards both maxillary and mandibular prognathism with protruding lower lip. Growth pattern seemed to be not related to molecular subtypes.ConclusionsThese preliminary data suggest that early TSR does not improve craniofacial growth pattern and dentoskeletal features in BWSp children
D. Premoli, Prospettive: Sergio Cappelli e Patrizia Ranzo
No full textL'articolo recensisce la ricerca di Patrizia Ranzo e Sergio Cappelli e pubblica le immagini del sistema ufficio "Isole", produzione Cappellini
Roberto Vanacore, Patrizia Santaniello
No full textIl contributo riguarda alcuni progetti di Roberto Vanacore e Patrizia Santaniello, all'interno di un volume dedicato a tracciare una mappa costituita dalle architetture in Campania, realizzate recentemente, e da studi sul progetto, prodotti da architetti campani, di molteplice formazione e provenienza culturale
Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Italian Children and Adolescents Living with Bone Dysplasia: A Cross-Sectional Study
No full textBone dysplasia (BD) refers to a group of rare disorders characterized by skeletal and dental anomalies which may negatively influence oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the impact of BD on OHRQoL in Italian children and adolescents and to assess whether gender and age influence their OHRQoL. A total of 40 patients with BD and 40 age- and gender-matched controls (aged 8-14 years) were asked to complete the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14), Child Oral Health Impact Profile (COHIP), and the short form of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (SF-CPQ). Children with BD showed statistically significant lower overall scores of all the questionnaires than the controls (all p < 0.001), with the largest differences being detected in overall symptoms, functional well-being, and social well-being domains. While no statistically significant gender-related differences were observed, adolescents aged 11-14 years experienced worse perception in the emotional and social well-being SSF-CPQ domains (p = 0.042 and p = 0.045, respectively) and in the peer interaction COHIP domain (p = 0.011) compared to the younger age group. Based on these findings, children suffering from BD experience poorer OHRQoL than their healthy peers, suggesting that oral and dental issues may be of special importance for the socio-psychological well-being of these growing individuals
Portrait of a Contender: Patrizia Anesa
No full textThis summer, Patrizia Anesa kindly took the time to speak with “Language at Work –Bridging Theory and Practice” about her professional experience at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Teaching at the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Education, Patrizia is also affiliated with CERLIS (Research Centre for the study of Specialized Languages)
Independent Developers: The invisible urban regenerators
No full textMost of today’s urban development and regeneration is being provided by the private
sector. Cities are being regenerated and redeveloped by institutional developers with
projects that can change entire neighbourhoods and city centres. The majority of these
developers are interested primarily in institutional properties and other buildings that are
large enough to generate the required returns and revenues without bearing too much risks.
There are also areas and neighbourhoods that do not experience institutional development
and investment because their developmental values and sites are not encouraging to them.
Nevertheless, some of these areas gained economic growth and were regenerated without
any institutional developers being involved. These kinds of regenerations are either a result
of community development or they are the outcome of independent development. This type
of development culture is not much studied yet. Independent developers are the invisibles
working in the shadows of the big institutional property developers that are often covered in
the media and literature. Hardly anybody notices and writes about these small and
independent developers that, although developing smaller projects, still have an impact on
and are important for urban regeneration. This analysis of independent developers and their
projects will provide information on their approach to property development. The report will
discuss the major differences between institutional and independent development and how
they each address topics like location, market, intervention and funding. By drawing on
examples from interviews, literature and other publications, the report will examine
independent property developers in more detail and try to analyse their role and their
contribution to urban regeneration
Preliminary study in a new protocol for the treatment of oral mucositis in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and chemotherapy (CT)
No full textPrefazione al volume Prefazione al volume Il sapere del mare – Atlante della cantieristica siciliana, a cura di Valeria Patrizia Li Vigni Tusa, Regione Siciliana, Palazzo d’Aumale, Palermo 2010
No full textPrefazione al volume Il sapere del mare – Atlante della cantieristica siciliana, a cura di Valeria Patrizia Li Vigni Tusa, Regione Siciliana, Palazzo d’Aumale, Palermo 2010.Foreword to the volume Il sapere del mare – Atlante della cantieristica siciliana, a cura di Valeria Patrizia Li Vigni Tusa, Regione Siciliana, Palazzo d’Aumale, Palermo 2010
Pour ce que mors est Crestïens...: la nascita dell’ aventure novele nel Tornoiemenz Antecrit di Huon de Méry
No full textIl contributo proposto (Patrizia Serra, “Pour ce que mors est Crestïens...”: la nascita dell’aventure novele nel Tornoiemenz Antecrit di Huon de Méry, in Chrétien de Troyes et la tradition du roman arthurien en vers, éd. par Annie Combes, Patrizia Serra, Richard Trachsler & Maurizio Virdis, Paris, Garnier, 2013) è incentrato sull’analisi dei rapporti intertestuali che il Tornoiemenz Antecrit di Huon de Méry intrattiene non soltanto con le proprie fonti esplicitamente dichiarate – Chrétien de Troyes e Raoul de Houdenc – ma soprattutto con i Sermones in Cantica Canticorum di San Bernardo di Chiaravalle, che si leggono in filigrana. L’apparente ripresa della topica del romanzo arturiano, attraverso un percorso allegorico costruito sulla risignificazione di immagini tradizionali, costituisce un espediente per condurre il lettore sul terreno di una scrittura che veicola verità spirituali e propone l’itinerarium ad Deum del peccatore mediante la parabola “autobiografica” dell’autore-protagonista
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