AIM To compare and evaluate the perceptions of esthetics among dentists and patients regarding the final esthetic outcome of a dental treatment. BACKGROUND Esthetics is a matter of perception and is associated with the way different people look at an object. What constitutes esthetic for a particular person may not be acceptable for another. Hence it is subjective in nature. This becomes more...

Fresh aerial part of the Cyperus rotundus L., was extracted with methanol followed by concentrated. The concentrated residue was fractionated by column chromatography method using petroleum ether, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol. Each fraction has analyzed the preliminary phytochemical screening test to steroids, terpenpoids, alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolic compounds, etc., present in th...

The Western Ghats, a range of ancient hills extends between 8° N and 21° latitude, 73° E 77° longitude(from the tip peninsular India at Kanyakumari to Gujarat). Ghats runs parallel west coast India, covering approximately 160,000 sq. km, which constitutes less than 5% India's geographical extent. Numerous streams originate in drain millions hectares, ensuring water food security for 245 million...

A microorganism hydrolyzing carboxymethyl cellulose was isolated from a paddy field and identified as Bacillus sp. Production of cellulase by this bacterium was found to be optimal at pH 6.5, 37°C and 150 rpm of shaking. #is cellulase was purified to homogeneity by the combination of ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE cellulose, and sephadex G-75 gel filtration chromatography. #e cellulase w...