Comparison of Efficacy of Amoxicillin versus Ciprofloxacin in Postsurgical Management of Transalveolar Extraction.

Background: The transalveolar extraction and the use of pharmacological antibiotic therapy following the surgical procedure in management of postoperative infection go hand in hand in minor oral surgery. Attention has often been focused on antibiotic therapy administered at different time schedules (before or after surgery or both). This investigation reveals how the use of different molecules and dosages is critical in the postoperative period and has always provided positive result.

Patient compliance and supportive periodontal therapy: Study among young adults of Namakkal district.

Aims: The aim of this study is to assess the patient compliance to supportive and maintenance periodontal therapy and to determine the reason for noncompliance among young adult patients of Namakkal district, India.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted on 400 patients who underwent periodontal therapy and subsequently recalled for supportive and maintenance periodontal treatment in the Department of Periodontics, Vivekanandha Dental College for Women, Namakkal. Patients age group 25-35 years and of both gender were equally selected and grouped by occupation and socioeconomic status.

Phenindione interference in enzymatic creatinine assay - A case report.

Enzymatic creatinine assays are considered superior to Jaffe assays due to greater analytical specificity. We report a case of phenindione interference with an enzymatic assay resulting in significant misclassification in a patient with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Analysis of creatinine values of a further 36 patients who were treated with phenindione showed significant negative interference of phenindione with the Roche enzymatic creatinine assay.

Rare form of cherubism: Case report with review of literature.

Cherubism was first described by Jones in 1933 as "familial multilocular cystic disease of jaws." Renamed as cherubism in 1938 because of classical characteristics of full round cheeks and upward cast of the eyes to the angelic look of the cherubs immortalized by renaissance art. It is characterized by progressive painless bilateral swelling of jaws involving either maxilla or mandible producing chubby face.

An infected dentigerous cyst associated with an impacted permanent maxillary canine, inverted mesiodens and impacted supernumerary teeth.

A dentigerous cyst is an odontogenic cyst associated with the crown of the impacted or unerupted teeth. Such cyst remain initially completely asymptomatic unless when infected and can be discovered only on routine radiographic examination. Here, such a case of dentigerous cyst, which was discovered on routine radiographic examination, is discussed here.