Chronic kidney disease is a global public health problem placing significant burden on patients and health care systems. Economic evaluations represent a policy tool to determine the burden of dise...
During the past decades, cancer research has expanded rapidly due to the relatively high incidence rate of cancer and high death rate linked to it. The type and the extent of aggressiveness of part...
This Guide is for the use of nurses and other health care workers who are responsible for the care of the patients at the first referral level in developing countries in a lucid way. It presents u...
Endodontic microscopy and its clinical implication can be categorized into six areas according to its role in diagnosis, non surgical endodontics, surgical endodontics, documentation and patient ed...
Surgical extraction of impacted lower third molar is one of the most frequent intervention in oral surgery. This procedure is often associated with significant post-surgical pain that may have both...
Rehabilitation of post surgical or congenital facial defect is a challenging procedure. The surgeon is limited by the complexity of the structures which need reconstruction, the availability of tis...
Attempts to determine the association between the radiographic and clinical findings of knee pathology have produced conflicting results. It is also not yet known how knee radiographs influence the...
Dentistry has come through many advances in all its branches over the last few decades. With such advancements, the accurate diagnostic tools, specially imaging methods, have become very much neces...
Approximately 50% of chronic urticaria patients demonstrate autoantibodies against high affinity receptor of IgE (Fc?RI) or IgE itself. They tend to have a high itch and wheal score, and systemic s...
The continuing growth of the world population has become an urgent global problem. Ethiopia like most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing rapid population growth. Currently, the country...
Dental implants are replacement tooth roots. Implants provide a strong foundation for the fixed or removable replacement teeth that are made to match the natural teeth. In most cases, anyone health...
Shade selection and shade matching of a restoration is the critical final step in aesthetic restorative dentistry once morphology and occlusion are addressed. Color is governed by visual and scien...
This book is on Cryptosporidium, an intracellular and extra cytoplasmic enteropathogen. Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite which affects gastrointestinal tract of wide variety of animals inclu...
Orthodontic treatment involving extraction of teeth, oftenly requires closure of extraction spaces. Thus space closure,is an important step in fixed Orthodontic mechanotherapy, solely dictated by c...
The fit of dental castings has long been a controversial subject. The ability to fabricate precise castings and reproduce them repeatedly has been the principle objective of many investigations .Th...
How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but its standards of health care, not only in curati...
This book covers all the granulomatous lesion oral cavity as well as face.In this we covered pathophysiology of granuloma formation,classification of granulomatous lesion of oral cavity,lesion caus...
Probiotics or health-beneficial bacteria have only recently been introduced in dentistry and oral medicine after years of successful use in mainly gastro-intestinal disorders. Probiotics may contro...
Health related quality of life (HRQOL) has been noted to changed among cancer children during bone marrow transplantation (BMT) recovery and with increased survival rates after pediatric bone marro...
Since antiquity, wounds of all varieties have been the result of trauma, infection and vascular or autoimmune disorders. The intentional surgical wounding of a tissue is a dynamic process which eli...