In edentulous patient, restoring labial fullness is a delicate technique. To achieve our clinical aim, proper communication between the dentist and laboratory technician required. some completely cases, prominent enlarged flange of complete denture contributes to poor facial aesthetics. solve this problem, was adjusted gum-fit or flangless prescribed. This case reports presents simple, cost-eff...

The advantages of determining thoracic gas volume and functional residual capacity (FRC) via the body plethysmograph have long been recognized.1 In our laboratory, we have found that employing a standard X-Y-T recorder in conjunction with the plethysmograph enables us to determine a more precise measurement of FRC from our measurement of thoracic gas volume. During plethysmographic study, the t...

1MSc, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Bacteriology, Tuberculosis Research Centre, India 2PhD, Scientist F, Department of Bacteriology, Tuberculosis Research Centre, India 3BSc, Laboratory Technician, Department of Bacteriology, Tuberculosis Research Centre, India 4Senior Technical Officer A, Department of Bacteriology, Tuberculosis Research Centre, India 5MSc, Scientist D, Department of B...

Teeth with severe tetracycline staining can present a restorative challenge to the clinician. While a variety of options facilitate predictable aesthetic treatment of patients with such dentition, they often require significant tooth reduction in order to provide the dentist and the laboratory technician with adequate space for the restorative material to conceal the discoloration. This present...

INTRODUCTION Emergent care of the acute heart attack patient continues to be at the forefront of quality and cost reduction strategies throughout the healthcare industry. Although the average cardiac door-to-balloon (D2B) times have decreased substantially over the past few years, there are still vast disparities found in D2B times in populations that reside in rural areas. Such disparities are...

‘THE VALUE of a pooled serum and a quality control chart in monitoring clinical chemical analyses is well-established (1, 2). However, any of the following situations may arise in a laboratory which relies solely on such a system of quality control: (1) a test may give reliable results in the normal, but unreliable in the high or low ranges; (2) poor technician performance may be masked by bias...

The role of the technician in the chemical laboratory is undergoing a dramatic change as the computer makes inexorable inroads into the field of laboratory operations and instrumentation. The use of the computer in laboratories has progressed from the single mainframe in the large research institutions of20 years ago, through the free-standing micros in the mid 1970s, to the computers dedicated...

In October 2013, autochthonous dengue fever was diagnosed in a laboratory technician in Bouches-du-Rhone, southern France, a department colonised by Aedes albopictus since 2010. After ruling out occupational contamination, we identified the likely chain of local vector-borne transmission from which the autochthonous case arose. Though limited, this second occurrence of autochthonous dengue tran...

A 60-year-old laboratory technician developed pulmonary infiltrates consistent with chemical pneumonitis following accidental exposure to a mixture of hydrogen bromide and phosphorus tribromide. A protracted clinical course ensued consistent with bronchiolitis obliterans. These problems may have been avoided if the potential for subsequent damage had been realized at the time of the initial exp...