ABSTRACT
This study was done from 07-01-2008 to 28-02-2008 to compare the oral hygiene status and level of cleanliness of 11-15 year old children of the government and private schools at the Ghazi Tehsil, District Haripur of North Western Frontier Province of Pakistan. The data were recorded on a Proforma that included child's age, sex, school of attendance, Debris Index [DI] score, Calculus Index [CI] score, Simplified Oral Hygiene Index [OHI-S] score and the Level of Cleanliness [LOC]. DI score and CI score were calculated and combined to obtain OHI-S score for each child. Based on the OHI-S, the LOC was categorized as Good, Fair or Poor. There were 101, 11 to 15 year [mean age 13.3 years SD +/- 1.41] old children, among them 546 [53.6%] were boys and 473 [46.4%] girls. The mean OHI-S for boys was 2.71 and for girls was 2.65 and this was statistically significant [P<0.05]. Majority [75.3%] of the children had Fair LOC, 193 [18.9%] of the children had Poor LOC while only fifty nine [5.8%] of the children had Good LOC. The LOC of children of both the government and private schools in the Ghazi Tehsil was considered as Fair
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Humans , Male , Female , Schools , Child , Oral HygieneABSTRACT
Antibiotic prophylaxis is a recognized concept in surgery. We studied the need for prophylaxis in clean and clean contaminated surgery in the setting of third world tertiary care center. A randomized single blind study was conducted with three arms. 278 patients of ASA and 2 were included in this study. They were randomized to prophylaxis with Cefuroxime, triple regime and placebo. The placebo wing was terminated prematurely due to unacceptable infection rate and Cefuroxime was found to be equal or better than triple regime in our study