Summary This book is designed to equip you with the basic concepts required for nursing students for nutrition. This edition includes the latest nutritional guidelines, with a new chapter on meeti...
The infolding of the dental papilla before biological mineralisation that allows the invagination of inner dental epithelium is described as Dens invaginatus, it's a rare developmental morphoanatom...
Meningitis is the most common central nervous system disease affecting children leading to focal neurological deficits and various oculovisual anomalies including blindness in children. Commonly se...
Identification and functional characterization of numerous transport systems at the sinusoidal and canalicular membrane of hepatocytes have significantly expanded our understanding of bilirubin met...
Provisional (interim/ temporary) restorations are used to safeguard and sedate the pulp of prepared abutments, promote periodontal healing and health, rehabilitate oral function, provide positional...
Over a decade, dentistry has become more cognizant of the extent to which behavioural factors such as smoking as well as systemic conditions form a risk-factor for periodontal diseases. Intense stu...
Hepatitis B virus, one of the most prevalent pathogens in the world, results in wide spectrum of liver disease ranging from sub-clinical to acute, self-limited hepatitis and fetal, fulminant hepati...
Saliva is a potent and non-invasive tool for early detection of various diseases. It facilitates numerous biochemical, immunological, toxicological and microbiological analysis. In future, it will ...
True bilateral body symmetry is largely a theoretical concept that seldom exists in living organisms. Right-left differences occur everywhere in nature where two congruent types are present.Symmetr...
Biomechanics deals with the forces, their distribution within the orofacial complex and how the forces are altered by restorations. Biomechanics studies the response of the oral tissues and the res...
The dental pulp is a highly vascular tissue, seems to do a variety of essential functions like dentinogenesis, immune cell defense, nutrition and proprioception cognizance, besides producing repara...
During the 20th century, mobile phones radiation became an important source of concern for scientists and physicians about their potential health hazards and also interferences in medical laborator...
Newborn Screening (NBS) was a very established concept in the West whilst it was still at a very nascent stage in India. In South India, especially in TamilNadu it was almost non-existent in the ea...
Acceleration in the speed of occurrence rate of cognitive distortions and suicides in different age groups are serious consequences of increasing frequency of depressive incidences in the society a...
Factors that affect public health in rural and remote areas of the world have been less studied. Using qualitative research methods, reviewing key publications and NGOs sites, this study identifies...
Throughout our journey in infection control practice, training & teaching, the claim for a handy guide became a necessity. This book offers a simplified approach for infection control application t...
There are several measures in the rehabilitation of Parkinson's patients which bring them to the point of ambulation with mobility aids. I have made a study on this condition to further achieve ind...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and represents a huge and growing economic and social burden. COPD is a multi-factori...
The relationship between Bone mineral density (BMD) and atherosclerosis in older postmenopausal women is a subject of increasing concern because of the great importance of atherosclerotic diseases ...
Implants are the latest trends in dentistry and the long term clinical success of implants depends on various factors. One of the important factors among these is the appropriate selection of the i...