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ABSTRACT: Vitiligo is an acquired hypomelanotic disorder of the skin resulting from loss of functional melanoctyes and it affects approximately 0.5-1% of individuals. 25% of vitiligo in children are diagnosed before 10 years of age. The age of onset of vitiligo in children ranges between 4 to 8 years. Depigmentation in oral cavity can be easily noted and awareness about the condition can be created if they are not aware about vitiligo elsewhere in their body and can be guided for the treatment.
RESUMEN: El vitíligo es un trastorno hipomelanótico en la piel que resulta de la pérdida de melanocitos funcionales y afecta aproximadamente al 0,5-1% de los individuos. El 25% de los casos de vitiligo en niños se diagnostican antes de los 10 años. La edad de aparición del vitiligo en los niños oscila entre los 4 y los 8 años. La despigmentación en la cavidad oral se puede notar fácilmente y se puede crear conciencia sobre la afección, si no son conscientes del vitiligo en otras partes de su cuerpo, y pueden ser guiados para el tratamiento.
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Introduction: Local anaesthesia injection is widely acceptedas the gold standard for pain management during variousdental procedures. Intra-oral topical anaesthesia not onlyreduces the pain of injection prick but also several minordental procedures can be carried out under topical anaesthetic.Study aimed to determine the usage, type & effectiveness ofvarious topical anaesthetics used for minor dental proceduresin pediatric patients.Material and Methods: A self-structured, closed endedquestionnaire was emailed to 100 private dental practitionersin the tricity and were asked to fill and mail it back.Results: 59% dentists responded, out of them 70.7%routinely used topical anesthetic. 64.8% used Lidocaine gelfor administration of local anesthesia. 24.1% used topicalanesthetic for extraction of nearly exfoliating deciduous teeth.42.6% responded that the effect of topical anesthetic wasachieved between 30 seconds to 1 minute.Conclusion: All the dentists were aware of using topicalanesthetic and the most preferred delivery system was gel.
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Background: Burns represent a serious problem around the world especially in low and middle income countries. The aim of this study was to determine epidemiological characteristics, causes and mortality rate of burn deaths in tertiary care hospital of N India as well as to guide future education and prevention programs. Methods: A one year cross-sectional study of all burn patients admitted in Dr. RPGMC Tanda, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India was conducted between January 2014-December 2014. Results: Our study revealed that type II (absence of sutural bones) was commoner than type I (presence of type I) asterion. Total of 210 burn injury patients were admitted majority were males[54.5%] and females were [45.5%] males sustained burn injuries mostly at their work place with electric burns whereas females sustained burn injuries at home with cooking appliances. Conclusions: Burn injuries can be reduced by bringing about regulations to develop safer cooking appliances, promoting less inflammable fabrics to be worn out at home and educating the community especially women.
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Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a life threatening cutaneous drug reaction with visceral involvement and hematological abnormalities. Being a rare side effect, it is often under-reported and misdiagnosed. The fatal adverse drug reaction is associated most commonly with aromatic anti-epileptics phenytoin, carbamazepine and less frequently with phenobarbitone. Here, we report a case of phenobarbitone induced DRESS in a 1 year old male child. He succumbed to fulminant hepatic failure inspite of being put on steroids, hepatoprotectives, antibiotics and ventilatory support.