Doctor's perception of oral contraceptive products is very important for social marketing. Though the obvious and important use of oral contraceptives is to prevent unwanted pregnancy, it is also found that awareness regarding non-contraceptive health benefit use of oral contraceptives is increasing. As oral contraceptives have a lot of side effects, normally doctors go for low dose pills to av...

Aim: The purpose of this article is to report a case of drug induced gingival enlargement due to oral contraceptives, managed by nonsurgical periodontal therapy. Background: Drug-induced gingival overgrowth remains the most widespread unwanted effect of systemic medication on the periodontal tissues. Hormones are specific regulatory molecules that modulate a host of body functions. Oral contrac...

Protein S is a plasma protein that serves as a cofactor for the anticoagulant effects of activated protein C. Congenital protein S deficiency is often associated with thromboembolic disease. During pregnancy a decrease in the functional and antigenic levels of protein S occurs; this change in protein S status may contribute to the thromboembolic complications that sometimes occur during pregnan...