He said the diagnosis is important in terms of organizing and planning treatment.
Today, as millions of men and women of childbearing age and younger are surviving cancer, the question of reproduction is arising as a paramount consideration in planning treatment.
Burke and her colleagues discuss various patients' ACE scores the way that other doctors might talk about blood-pressure readings; the ACE score is, for them, a basic measure of health and an essential tool in planning treatment.
Clinicians should consider parafunctional occlusal load when planning treatment.
Knowledge of the kinetics of 99mTc MIBI and doxorubicin may help in planning treatment strategies for cancer.
There is increasing interest in sagittal balance as an important element when planning treatment of spinal deformations.
We feel it is important therefore to take into account the patient's pre-morbid shoulder function when planning treatment of periprosthetic fractures.
When managing recurrent instability after a failed procedure, identification of the specific cause of failure is imperative before planning treatment course (Table 1).
When planning treatment for class I cases, the extraction decision mainly depends on lower anterior crowding, lower lip to E line, upper crowding and overjet.
Biologic and genetic characteristics have been identified, which, when added to classic clinical staging, has allowed patient assignment to risk groups for planning treatment intensity.
This information could be useful when planning treatment schedules during pre-clinical investigations and in future clinical protocols in order to find the optimal treatment schedule.
