Supportive care for oral cancer survivors in COVID-19 lockdown.

Objective: Availability and accessibility to routine health care services for cancer patients were a cause of concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, which induced stringent enforcement of lockdown and social distancing in Sri Lanka. Oral cancer patients who have undergone surgery recently encountered problems such as pain, difficulty in swallowing. However, accessing routine treatment and obtaining medication emerged as the most pressing concerns among them.

Primary or specialist medical care: Which is more equitable? A policy brief.

Background: Equity in health and equitable access to healthcare has been at the core of health policy in India. The key policy challenge has been how to make that possible? Various health insurance schemes such as the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and Arogyasri seek to improve poor people's access to specialist medical care in the public and private sectors. On the other hand, access to primary medical care has been left to the supply side interventions.

Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis: A rare entity.

Introduction: Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is an auto-inflammatory disease which is characterised by non-infectious bone lesions at multiple sites which have a relapsing nature. Our aim is to examine the role of radiology in diagnosis and management of CRMO patients who have been managed at the Mater Children's Hospital.

Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of patients who have been managed with CRMO at the Mater Hospital since 2002.

Evaluation of dimensional stability of autoclavable elastomeric impression material.

Impressions are important sources of cross contamination between patients and dental laboratories. As a part of infection control impressions contaminated with variety of micro-organisms via blood and oral secretions should be cleaned and disinfected or sterilized before being handled in dental laboratory. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of autoclaving on dimensional stability of elastomeric impression material (polyvinyl siloxane-Affinis).