Pattern of dental caries in 3-6-year-old children using decayed, missing, filled surface index and hierarchical caries pattern system: A descriptive study.

Background And Objectives: The dental caries status of a population group with permanent dentition is traditionally described using decayed, missing, and filled teeth or surface (DMFT or DMFS) index, and the corresponding index for the primary dentition is dmft or dmfs. dmf value alone has certain limitations; therefore, additional measures to describe dental caries are important. Poulsen and Horowitz in 1997 described a hierarchical method to determine the severity of dental caries.

Initiation of MDR TB treatment: is hospitalization worth?

Background: The treatment for MDR TB is quite prolonged and associated with adverse effects and hence costly.

Aim: The aim of study was to study the side-effects of reserve line drugs developing in initial seven days of starting therapy, so as to weigh the need for admission for initiation of treatment against heavy economic burden by admission of huge number of MDR TB patients, and to identify the factors which may have an effect on the number of patients developing side-effects

Methods: All MDR TB patients (930) admitted during study period, who were initiated on Cat IV treatment for MDR TB under RNTCP were questioned daily for any side-effects throughout the day, during initial seven days of treatment.

Results: On day one, 342 (36.