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@#Dentistry is not only about restoring teeth and beauty and there is more to it. One such unexplored dimension is the empathetic side of intimate partner violence victims attending dental hospitals. In Malaysian context, recent figures are staggering and 40% were victims; especially women. One must agree that family physician is the first person that victims contact and serving their best. Unfortunately, violence against women is almost universally under-reported to authorities. Thereby the prevalence of intimate partner violence is more than what is being projected in statistics. In such circumstances, it would be reasonable to investigate if dentists have anything to contribute in this regard. The honest truth that should urge dentists to screen intimate partner violence victims are the one being oro-facial injuries and other their close association with intra-oral anatomy. Given these facts, more opportunities exist to restore broken hearts of Malaysian homes.
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To cite this article: Chidambaram R. Examination of obstructive sleep apnea at regular intervals: an essential requirement for drivers in Malaysia. Malays J Med Sci. 2017;24(1):121–122. https://doi.org/10.21315/ mjms2017.24.1.14
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Oral rehabilitation in medically compromised patients like chronic kidney disease [CKD] needs special dental care. Many papers have been published on dental considerations for such individuals. However, literature citing oral care for patients with risk factors of CKD are scarce. Resistant hypertension, one such risk factor, is closely related to CKD. Furthermore, the associated increased prevalence and adverse renal/cardiac outcomes motivated the author to report its unexplored association/impact during dental care. The importance of assessing glomerular filtration rate is highlighted to better understand patients' medical conditions
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Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Renal Insufficiency, Chronic , Risk Factors , Dental Care , Oral Surgical Procedures , ComorbidityABSTRACT
Complexity in the health status of patients with kidney disease forces to seek the aid of medical devices such as the central venous catheter (CVC) that is essential in order to perform hemodialysis. Elementary information about the CVC, as required for the oral healthcare professionals, has been documented so as to serve as a medical manual. This communication is the first of its kind that conjointly delineates vital considerations, which precede dental maneuvers in patients implanted with a CVC.
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Antibiotic treatment is a form of pharmacotherapy with the specialty of rendering both etiological and curative action. Dentists traditionally administer antibiotics, to restrain contagions and to handle the prevailing dental ailments. Penicillins have been the drug of choice to be opted by the dental practitioners in their routine dental practice. Prudent application of antibiotics in concoction with surgical therapy is the most pertinent mode to cure odontogenic contagions. Considerable prescriptions of antibiotics are ascribed especially in cases which induce bleeding in the oral cavity. Regardless of the obvious indications, perplexity prevails between the oral health care professional’s pertaining to the administration of antibiotics in coalition with dental maneuvers. Dreadful ailments have been cured after the incipience of antibiotics in 1929. Besides it also leads to cumbersome consequences by virtue of its misuse. Irrational usage of antibiotic therapy leads to false positive effects on both health and financial grounds and poses a threat to the microbial resistance. The present communication aims to delineate the absolute indications, consequences of abuse and imperative factors to be considered while prescribing antibiotics in routine dental practice.