Dr. Sherin A Khalam1, Dr. Surej Kumar LK2, Dr. Rakesh Koshy Zacariah3, Dr. Nikhil Mathew Kurien3 and Dr. Prabhat Raj4 1Associate Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, PMS College Of Dental Science & Research, Trivandrum, India 2Professor & Head, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, PMS College Of Dental Science & Research, Trivandrum, India 3Professor, Department of Oral...

Medical images form an essential source of information for various important tasks such as diagnosis of diseases, surgical planning, medical reference, research and training. Oral submucous fibrosis [OSMF] is a chronic debilitating disease of the oral cavity characterized by inflammation and progressive fibrosis of the submucosal tissues. Support Vector Machine [SVM] is a statistic machine lear...

Areca quid chewing related oral mucosal lesions are potential hazard to a large population worldwide. Commercially freeze dried products such as pan masala, Guthka and mawa have high concentration of areca nut per chew and appear to cause OSMF more rapidly than by self prepared conventional betel quid that contain smaller amounts of areca nut. These chemical appear to interfere with the molecul...

Dear Editor, A b o u t 5 m i l l i o n p e o p l e i n I n d i a h ave o r a l submucous fibrosis and recent data suggest a male predominance. Age group between second and third decade is commonly involved. Risk of malignant transformation ranges from 7% to 30%. Restricted mouth opening in oral submucous fibrosis makes examination and early diagnosis of cancer difficult. Medical management is t...

The bacterial communities present in the oral cavity and the lungs of 19 adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients were compared by using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 16S rRNA gene PCR products amplified from nucleic acids extracted directly from bacteria in clinical samples. Sputum samples were not found to be subject to profound contamination by oral cavity bacteria...

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is now accepted globally as an Indian disease, having highest malignant potential than any other oral premalignant lesions. The understanding of the exact role of alkaloids and other etiological agents with respect to pathogenesis will help the management and minimize the blind clinical trials and treatment modalities. This article provides an overview of the etiop...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com to chronic iron deficiency calling it as an Asian analogue of sideropenic dysphagia [3]. OSMF has been predominantly reported among Indians living in India as well as outside, to a lesser extent among other Asiatics and, sporadically, among Europeans. With a reported prevalence ranging up to 0.4% in Indian rural populations [4], several million indi...

background: the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of vitamin a and c, as the agents that improve wound healing, on the adhesion formation process. materials and methods: sixty male wistar rats were used. they underwent midline laparotomy, for repair of a peritoneal injury, and were then assigned to four groups. group 1 (vitamin a) received 2000 units/kg intramuscular injection of v...