1 Prinicipal Investigator, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kist Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Lalitpur, Nepal 2 Associate Professor, Dept of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kist Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Lalitpur, Nepal Abstract Introduction: Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) therapy, an antithrombotic agents used in various medical conditions, was frequently discon...

Introduction In most healthcare models, the first interaction of a patient is with a general physician. The inspection of the oral cavity is a mandatory component of the general physical examination performed by a physician. This helps detect any oral pathology and make suitable referrals. Therefore, adequate oral health awareness is essential for physicians. Our study aimed at evaluating the o...

Evidence suggests that stopping oral anticoagulation with warfarin is not necessary in patients requiring low-risk dental procedures and may actually increase thrombosis risk. However, widespread belief remains among dentists that stopping oral anticoagulation for dental procedures is necessary. The purpose of this study was to investigate the teaching practice of U.S. dental faculty responsibl...

Role-plays provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate how to use English in real life situations and make them focus more on communication than on grammar. Oral presentations like conversations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. Therefore, this paper makes an attempt to investigate whether teaching conversation through role play affects the students’ speaki...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of web-based cooperative teaching through strategy-based instruction on EFL learners’ speaking and listening skills. Moreover, the use of cooperative teaching was hypothesized to have impact on the EFL learners’ self-efficacy. To this purpose, the study followed a mixed-methods design by implementing both qualitative and quantitative data gathering pro...

In the context of the great diversity of oral microflora, including over 600 species, we highlight the educational value of electron micrographs and images of dental plaque cultures in dental models made with culture media, showing the bacterial colonies in the anatomic sites of the teeth that were most abundantly colonized. Such images allow for an easy understanding of the magnitude of the or...

Portfolio assessment as one of the alternatives to testing is defined as the systematic collection of student work measured against predetermined scoring criteria. This paper aimed to investigate the effect of portfolio assessment in the oral performance of EFL learners in an attempt to examine its impact on their metadiscourse awareness. To determine the impact of portfolio assessment on the o...

This paper examines, through interview and tape recordings the perceptions of patients with oral cancers from two Nigerian ethnic groups as regard the causes and treatment of cancer. 50% of the participants from the Yoruba ethnic group attributed the cause of cancer to ‘hands of others’ explaining that they were harmed by supernatural forces (evil spirits and ancestral spirits) while 72% of pat...