Diagnostic criteria for functional abdominal pain has developed in the last decade, from Rome III to IV criteria. The major change was phrase "abdominal related gastrointestinal disorders" "functional disorders (FAPD)". According criteria, FAPD are divided into dyspepsia (FD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), migraine, and pain-not otherwise specified (FAP-NOS). In order diagnose FAPD, it is imp...

Letter to the Editor

Based on Rome III criteria, functional disorders of GI are listed below:   Infant regurgitation: -regurgitation two or more times per day for 3 or more weeks -no retching, hematemesis, aspiration, apnea, FTT, abnormal posturing Infant rumination syndrome: -repetitive contraction of abdominal muscle -regurgitation of gastric content in to the mouth and reswallowed Cyclic vomiting syndrome: -Two ...

temporo mandibular joint disorders are the most important ethiologic factor for chronic orofacial pain and have a relatively new place in scientific researches and clinical studies in dentistry. since dentists can play an important role in diagnosis and treatment of these disorders, routine dental examination should include functional examination of osteomatognatic apparatus.

common in India, can hardly be considered as satisfactorily determined. Many medical men must have had patienta whom they had treated according to the strict rules of theory without success, and have subsequently observed these patienta possibly at a dinner table, indulging in the most proscribed articles and yet enjoying a very fair state of health. It has also happened to me tbat, after attem...