Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Of The Dental Practitioners Towards Orthodontic Root Resorption: A Questionnaire Study.

Background: Today’s community is becoming more concern with the aesthetics and therefore orthodontics is coming into focus. With increasing numbers of patients receiving orthodontic treatment and with increased expectations, the adverse consequences of treatment should be emphasized. External apical root resorption is an iatrogenic consequence of orthodontic treatment, although it can also occur in the absence of orthodontic treatment. Thus every dental practitioner and orthodontist should know the risk factors of root resorption, so that he or she can do everything to reduce the occurrence of root resorption. Methodology: The study was consisted of 50 participants including of general dental practitioners and orthodontists. Study was carried out with the help of specially designed 12 questionnaires, which were validated by doing pilot study. Results: In the present study, 88% participants had knowledge about the fact of orthodontic root resorption and about 31% had come across such situations in their practice. Many of the participants were not having the knowledge of the etiological and other factors associated with the condition. Conclusion: Results of the present study were shown that, though root resorption induced by the orthodontic treatment is commonly seen among the community, many of them were not aware of the sufficient knowledge, attitude and practice towards this adverse situation.

Audit of buying patterns of drugs from various pharmacies in Northern India.

A study was conducted to gather data regarding drug buying practices in Delhi to compare the same in rural pharmacies in surrounding area. A cross sectional study was conducted as exit interviews using pretested Performa with customers visiting randomly selected pharmacies of Delhi and rural Haryana. Out of 280 consumers interviewed 140 belonged to urban areas and 140 to rural areas. In both areas male and younger consumers are significantly high. Most consumers in both set ups took medication after physician’s prescription in comparison to self medication. Source of information for self medication was media in urban and friends in rural areas. Alteration in brand name was more in rural areas. Antimicrobials and NSAIDs in rural areas and drugs for cardiovascular diseases and oral hypoglycemic drugs in urban areas are major purchased drug groups.