Talon cusp associated with other dental anomalies--a case report.

Talon cusp is an anomalous structure resembling an eagles talon which projects lingually from the cingulum area of an incisor. It is a rare anomaly which is commonly seen in maxillary incisors. This paper is a report of a case of Talon cusp associated with cross-bite and partial anodontia.

Brief interventions in substance abuse.

Brief interventions in substance abuse refer to a group of cost-effective and time efficient strategies that aim at reduction of substance use and/or harm related to substance use. They are grounded in the scientific principles of harm reduction stage of change, motivational interviewing and feasibility of community-level delivery. This review discusses the characteristics, elements, and techniques of brief interventions for abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

Remineralizing efficacy of a mineral enriched mouth rinse and fluoridated dentifrice on artificial carious lesions: an in vivo scanning electron microscopic study.

This comparative investigation was carried out to evaluate the remineralization potential on early artificial carious lesions under Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) of a Mineral enriched mouthrinse and a fluoridated dentifrice using an in-vivo intra-oral removable appliance model. This findings revealed that the remineralization was found to have occurred in almost all the samples (in children) using non-fluoridated, fluoridated dentifrices as well as those using mineral enriched mouthrinse. However the qualitative analysis of the remineralization revealed that in case of non-fluoridated dentifrice group, the prismatic holes showed deposition of granular, variable sized particles with uneven distribution, while in fluoridated dentifrice group, deposits were found to have partially but more densely filled up the prism cores.

Alexithymia in irritable bowel syndrome.

Thirty subjects of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and 30 normal controls were-compared. IBS patients showed significantly higher alexithymia score, depression, neuroticism and stress scores. When alexithymia was taken as independent variable it was found to correlate positively with depression and neuroticism.

Lipoma of the corpus callosum with frontal encephalocele.

Corpus callossal lipoma is a rare benign congenital disorder. These lesions may be associated with various congenital and acquired disorders. Lipoma of the corpus callosum with frontal encephalocele has not been described in the literature so far.

HIV-1 seropositivity in pulmonary tuberculosis (study of 340 cases from Marathwada).

An investigative study was carried out in 340 cases of established pulmonary and presumed pleural tuberculosis for co-occurrence of HIV-1 infection in them. Confirmatory screening for HIV-1 was carried out with both ELISA (Vironostika) and Serodia commercial kits in all reactive samples on first screening. In all, 16 cases proved to be having HIV-1 coexistent infection with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Adenosine deaminase activity in leprosy.

Serum adenosine deaminase (ADA) was studied in 60 patients of different types of leprosy and 50 healthy control subjects. ADA levels in patients with tuberculoid (50.50 +/- 5.

A study of serum copper, serum zinc and Cu/Zn ratio as diagnostic and prognostic index in cases of head, neck and face tumors.

Serum copper and zinc levels were measured in 20 normal healthy controls and 67 patients with tumours of head, neck and face region. Maximum cases in the present study were of oral malignancies (70.9% out of total malignant cases).