A comparison between wellness awareness among medical students.

Objective: To assess and compare the dimensions of spiritual wellness as elements of quality care in medical students of private and public medical universities.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was carried out at private and public medical universities in Karachi from November 2013 to January 2015.Students from both genders and all ethnic groups19-23 years of age were included.

Perceptions of medical students regarding dimensions of environmental wellness.

Objective: To explore the status of awareness on environmental wellness in medical students of Karachi.

Methods: The cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was carried out at Bahria University Medical & Dental College, Karachi, from January 2009 to July 2013, and comprised randomly selected medical students. The response options were; never, sometimes, mostly and always (numbered 0-4) and these were analyzed in terms of frequency, proportion and percentages by Predictive analysis software version18.

Financial wellness awareness: A step closer to achieve Millennium Development Goals for Pakistan.

Objective: To explore financial wellness (FW) awareness amongst public and private sector medical college students of Karachi.

Methods: A cross sectional questionnaire based survey was conducted on medical students from 3 public and 5 private sector medical colleges of Karachi from February 2011 to December 2011. All ethnic groups having age range of 18-23 years were included.

En bloc resection of huge cemento-ossifying fibroma of mandible: avoiding lower lip split incision.

Cemento-ossifying Fibroma (COF) is an osteogenic benign neoplasm affecting the jaws and other craniofacial bones. It commonly presents as a progressively slow growing pathology, which can sometimes attain an enormous size, causing facial deformity. A case of a huge cemento-ossifying fibroma, appearing as a mandibular dumbell tumour in a male patient is documented, which caused massive bone destruction and deformity.

Oral hygiene KAP assessment and DMFT scoring among children aged 11-12 years in an urban school of Karachi.

Objective: To assess the oral hygiene knowledge, attitude and practices among school children and evaluate their DMFT (Decayed/Missing/Filled Teeth) scores.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: A private school of Karachi from March to April 2008.