The Bottle of Medicine Habit

The Bottle of Medicine Habit

Evaluation of a preventive educational program for malocclusions: 7-year study.

Results 506 of the 802 guardians/children referred to the PPM joined. As for the children, the most frequently assessed habits were: bottle (56.1%), bottle and pacifier (18.4%), finger (11.9%), bottle and finger (7.1%), pacifier (5.7%), pacifier and finger (0.6%), and bottle/pacifier/finger (0.2%). After parent participation in the meetings, 335 (66.2%) children abandoned their habits. There wa...

A Case of Chloroform Poisoning by the Oral Route

Whilst I was at Warisnagar dispensary, in May, 1922, a nephew of my dispensary servant, aged 12, was brought to me for treatment. My compounder was in the habit of giving him chloroform water, dropping chloroform out of the chloroform bottle into the water, to satisfy his desire to drink sweet medicine. Once it happened that the compounder went out on business, leaving the chloroform bottle on ...

Rampant caries as a result of a bizarre food habit: a case report.

This is a case report of a preschool child in whom a b/zarre food habit resulted in total destruction of the primary dentition. The caries process was most likely initiated by the prolonged use of the nursing bottle until eighteen months of age. At the time of weaning, which was abrupt, the nursing bottle was replaced by bananas, which were retained in the child’s mouth day and night. This led ...

Old wine in a new bottle.

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this old wine in a new bottle, how can you bargain with the thing that has many benefits for...