Variability and Patterning in Permanent Tooth Dimensions among Four Ethnic Groups from the North-eastern States of India.

Methods: The study was a comparative cross-sectional study among four different ethnic groups of North-east India among the age group of 20-30 years. Dimensions of the maxillary and mandibular teeth were measured with a digital Vernier calliper using the dental casts of 50 male and 50 female subjects from each of the four ethnic groups under study. The data were statistically analyzed using a Student's -test and one-way analysis of variance.

Interface dermatitis as an indicator of hepatic involvement in drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS).

Background: There are conflicting reports on the association between interface dermatitis and hepatic involvement in DRESS.

Methods: A cross-sectional analysis of the clinical and the histopathologic features of DRESS was performed to study the association between the histopathology of the skin rash and hepatic involvement.

Results: The clinical and the histopathologic findings were evaluated in 40 cases of DRESS.

Plasma cell myeloma infiltrating the dental pulp: An interesting finding.

Plasma cell myeloma (PCM) is a clonal neoplastic proliferation of terminally differentiated B lymphocytes (plasma cells/myeloma cells) that involves the skeletal system in a multifocal fashion. Even though jaw involvement has been reported in as many as 30% of cases, myeloma cells infiltrating into the pulpal tissue is extremely rare. Here, we present a case of PCM in which myeloma cells are seen infiltrating into the pulpal tissue of 46.

Central mucoepidermoid carcinoma of maxilla with radiographic appearance of mixed radiopaque-radiolucent lesion: a case report.

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is the most common primary malignancy of the salivary glands. Central mucoepidermoid carcinomas are extremely rare in the jaws. Here we report a case of a 19-year-old central mucoepidermoid carcinoma in a young female patient which was asymptomatic throughout her history and which radiographically simulated a fibro-osseous lesion; both features misled the clinical diagnosis.

Changing trends in oral cancer.

Context: No study highlighting the incidence of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) in young adults has been reported from North Kerala until now.

Aims: To study the cases of OSCC reported at our institution, with emphasis on the clinicopathologic variables in young adults.

Settings And Design: This was a retrospective study of OSCC cases reported from 2002 to 2007.