She persuaded Vodacom Foundation Chairman, Mthobi Tyamzashe (himself born with a cleft lip), to sit in on one infant’s life-changing operation, in spite of his deep aversion to hospitals. To make doubly sure, Naiker got Vodacom’s then CEO, Alan Knott-Craig (who spent the first 5 years of his life in leg calipers and much later suffered a life-changing near-fatal heart attack), to attend a subse...

Moving into the future world, life will be getting more easier and because of internet things (IOT). Nowadays with increased need for surveillance, monitoring data collection IOT has become important. Today almost all devices are equipped sensors controlled by controllers such as from cars to vacuum cleaners, rockets Vernier calipers, air conditioners water pumps. By embedding intelligence in e...

Address for Correspondence: Dr Prathap Kumar J, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Ramaiah Medical College, M S R Nagar, MSRIT post, Mathikere, Bangalore, Karnataka, India560054 E-Mail: [email protected] Background: The knowledge of variations of the position nutrient foramina and hence nutrient arteries is important for the orthopedicians and radiologists for various procedure...

Address for Correspondence: Dr Prathap Kumar J, Assistant professor, Department of Anatomy, MSRIT Post, M S Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India560054. Phone No’s: +91 9035433303, +91 9035648318. E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1,2,3Assistant Professor, 4Associate Professor. Department of Anatomy, M.S.Ramaiah Medical Co...

BACKGROUND Although skinfold-thickness equations are widely used to estimate body fat, their accuracy in a biracial population of female adolescents has not been established. OBJECTIVE We undertook this study to determine the agreement between 8 widely used skinfold-thickness equations and a 4-compartment criterion model in predicting the percentage body fat of 72 white and 40 African America...

PURPOSE Anterior hyoid displacement is essential for efficient swallowing and is usually investigated with videofluoroscopy. Ultrasound offers a less expensive and noninvasive method of investigation. The present study investigated the viability of a novel method of quantifying hyoid displacement from sonograms using an anatomic reference point, through an evaluation of inter- and intra-rater r...

Introduction. We aim to regularize measurement values in three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) reconstructed images for higher-precision 3D analysis, focusing on length-based 3D cephalometric examinations. Methods. We measure the linear distances between points on different skull models using Vernier calipers (real values). We use 10 differently tilted CT scans for 3D CT reconstructio...

OBJECTIVE Styloid process of temporal bone is clinically important, because variations in length, as well as the angulations of styloid process are associated with the symptoms of stylalgia (Eagle's syndrome) and the surgical excision of the process could alleviate neck and cervicofacial pain in patients. This study was aimed to evaluate the length, angulation and distance between bases and tip...