When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women--their private lives and their conflicts with the traditions of their culture--she caused a sensation across the Arab world. Now in English, Alsanea's tale of the personal struggles of four young upper-class women offers Westerners an unprecedented glimpse into a society often veiled from view. Living in restrictive Riyadh but traveling all over the globe, these modern Saudi women literally and figuratively shed traditional garb as they search for love, fulfillment, and their place somewhere in between Western society...

Perforations due to iatrogenic errors can compromise the tooth prognosis. There is still no ideal endodontic material in the market to be used in a perforation site. This study evaluates the ability of Dental Pulp Stem Cells (DPSCs) and Dentin Matrix Protein 1 (DMP1) impregnated within a collagen scaffold to induce dentin formation in a furcal perforation site. Under the conditions of this study, it may be concluded that DPSCs impregnated within a collagen scaffold can differentiate into odontoblast-like cells secreting a highly cellular, vascular, and mineralized matrix that can be the...