Leukoplakia or a white patch is a potentially malignant lesion developed inside the mouth. It originates after clubbing the two Greek words, i.e., leuko meaning white and plakia meaning patch. By definition, it is a white or plaque that cannot be rubbed or scraped off and which cannot be attributed to any other diagnosable disease. […]
We all have experienced ulcers in our mouth at some point or the other. Though all the ulcers occurring in the mouth or our oral cavity are painful and come with bad experiences but some of them do not lead us to eat or even swallow our food. A drooling blood pooled saliva even make […]
WHO declared COVID 19 as pandemic in March 2020 after the disease had hydra headedly spread to most parts of the world including Japan, Korea, Iran, European countries, USA, India and others. The disease is caused by 2019-nCoV was called Covid-19 by the WHO in February 2020. The Coronaviruses are the enveloped viruses with positive […]
One health concept as summarized by the World Organization of Animal Health (French: OIE) is that the human and animal health are interdependent and bound to the health of the ecosystems in which they exist. Though his treatise on Airs, Waters and Places in Circa 400 BC, Hippocrates had urged the physicians that all the […]
Human and animal life has co-evolved with the plant life, way back from the advent of life on earth. The use of natural plant products in consumption of food or in the healing of the disease has always been seen throughout the history of mankind. It has been well known that apart from making our […]
“ Health is like MONEY, we never have a true idea of its value until we LOSE IT” -Josh Billings BEWARE All people practicing medicine or dentistry are NOT the doctors. Some of them are quacks, who is “an unqualified person who falsely claims to have medical knowledge”. As it is known, the ‘unconventional dentistry, […]
“Yes, people pull the trigger‑ but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror” Eliot Spitzer. A patient presents with a reduced mouth opening since 12 years. He had a ballistic trauma about 14 years back in the mid-facial region. He had lost his right eye […]
The term myiasis is derived from the Greek work “myia”, which means invasion of vital structures of vertebrates by fly larvae. Reverend F.W.Hope, in 1940 coined the term “myiasis”. According to Zumpt, myiasis can be defined as “an infestation of live human and vertebrate animals by dipterous larva, which at least for certain period of […]
New knowledge of osteoarthrosis must be gained if the later years of our lenghtening lives are not to be plagued by increasing pain and disability -J.H.Kellgren Osteoarthritis (OA), also called by osteoarthrosis or arthrosis is a common disease that is caused by degenerative process primarily affecting the articular cartilage. Articular cartilage is a connective tissue […]
