Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of Lactobacillus salivarius WB21 tablets on oral malodor among adult patients attending a dental institution in Mysuru city, India. Methods: This open label trial was conducted in September 2015 by a single calibrated principal investigator on 21 adult patients with genuine halitosis. With prior informed consent, participants were given 2.0 × 109 L. salivarius...

Background: Autistic spectrum disorder is long life neuro-developmental disorder. The objectives of this study were to describe caries status for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to provide baseline data to facilitate future planning of dental services to those children. Material and Method: A descriptive cross sectional study in Khartoum area for 43 autistic children attendin...

1 Professor &HOD, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, P.M.N.M Dental College & Hospital, Bagalkot, 587 101, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. 2 Consultant, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, 3 Senior Lecturer, 4 Senior Lecturer, Dept of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Chettinad Dental College and Research Institute, Chettinad Health City Campus, Kelambakkam, Kancheepuram District, Tamilnadu 603103, I...

Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous group of disorders with variable presentation in thought disturbances and disorganized behaviors[1]. Psychological and behavioral manifestations in patients affect concentration, perception, and ideation to the extent that social and occupational functioning is impaired[2]. Symptoms include hallucinations, disorganized thinking, perceptual disturbances, severe a...

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the skeletal and dento-alveolar effects of the Rick-A-Nator appliance in the treatment of growing patients with skeletal Class II malocclusion due to retrusive mandible. Methods: 13 Class II growing patients with mandibular retrusion and between the ages of 9 years and 12 years were selected to be included in this study. Control group for the tr...

Background: A minimum of four implants should be used in edentulous maxillae to anchor a dental prosthesis. A wide anterior/posterior distribution of the implants is advantageous. Besides bone grafting, short or tilted implants are used to achieve this in atrophic edentulous maxillae. The implants define a polygon that should be as large as possible. This study investigated the differences in t...

A task-independent ller modeling for robust keyphrase detection and veri cation is proposed. Instead of assuming task-speci c lexical knowledge, our model is designed to characterize phrases depending on the speaking-style, thus can be trained with large corpora of di erent but similar tasks. We present two implementations of the portable and general model. The dialogue-style dependent model tr...

USAID and the Schools of Public Health at JHU and GWU welcome you to the inaugural issue of GHSP-an open-access, peer-reviewed journal for the global health community, particularly program implementers, to contribute to and benefit from a dialogue based on science and practical programmatic experience.