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Background: This study examined the relationships between child, maternal, health care utilization and household characteristics and nutritional status of both mother and child in India. Nutritional status is the best indicator of the global well-being of a society. In India 36 percent of children, under five years of age suffer from underweight due to acute under nutrition. Methods: This study analyzed secondary data from fourth round of National Family Health Survey. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were preformed to estimate the effect of independent variables on dichotomous dependent variables. Results: Result shows that prevalence of stunting among male and female children was 39.14% and 37.52% respectively. Prevalence of underweight and stunting increases with the increase in child age group. Prevalence of underweight was more between both the rural and poorer mothers. The odds of stunting among female children was significantly lesser than their male counterparts (OR=0.93). Children belong to the older mother were less likely to be underweight (OR=0.81 and 0.70 for the mother in the age group 25-34 and 35-49 years respectively). Household characteristics show a significant result for the risk of underweight among women. Conclusion: Finding suggests that child sex and age influence the nutritional status significantly. Analysis indicate that increasing maternal age and educational attainment have statistical significant and positive effect on both maternal and child nutritional status. Study also found that utilization of health care services has better impact on nutritional status of both mother and child.
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Background: Retention of crowns depends on various factors such as the retentive properties of the luting cements and the type of cast metal. Limited information is available regarding the retentive strengths of crowns, cemented with resin cements. Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the retentive property of resinous dental adhesives with three other luting cements. Material and methods: Twenty freshly extracted human sound first mandibular molar was used for the study. The root of each tooth was embedded into a cylindrical shape block of self cured resin. Each of the tooth samples was prepared to receive a full metal crown. Total samples were divided into four groups, each containing five samples, for cementation of the metal crown in order to compare retentive properties of resinous adhesive and other luting agents; group A- resinous adhesive Panavia, group B - Zinc Phosphate cement, Group C- Glass ionomer cement, and group D- polycarboxylate cement. After 10min of cementation, the retention test was performed in an Instron tensile testing machine, to analyze the retentive properties of different luting cements. A one-way analysis of variance was used to analyze the data, with a significance level of alpha =.05. Results: Result showed a maximum mean retentive strength in Panavia Ex. (281.34kg), followed by Glass Ionomer (70.21kg), Polycarboxylate (63.06kg), and least in Zinc Phosphate cement (40.31 kg), which was statistically significant. Conclusion: Within the limitation of the present study, it was concluded that resinous adhesive Panavia Ex. cement has better retentive properties compare to other luting cements.
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The replacement of a single missing anterior tooth with an implant-supported crown is a demanding therapy. This report describes a treatment in which an anterior maxillary implant was immediately restored with a provisional restoration. During the provisional phase, an optimal emergence profile was created by adjusting the provisional restoration. An impression was made with an individually fabricated impression post for an accurate reproduction of the established emergence profile and, finally, a screw-retained all-ceramic crown was placed. By implementing this protocol, an optimal definitive result could be achieved, together with immediate patient satisfaction.
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The traumatic loss of an eye is not just the loss of an essential sense organ. It results in life-long agony of not being like others with two eyes, which can see and admire the nature’s beauty. As young patients are quite sensitive to peer pressure and for them, the greatest challenges are in the terms of identity and social acceptance, so, early rehabilitation is must in such patients. This article reports on the rehabilitation of a 13-year boy with custom ocular prosthesis for his traumatically injured left eye. The custom made ocular prosthesis fitted over the patient’s left eye with ophthalmomalacia, successfully restored the patient’s aesthetics and improved his social acceptance thereby, improving his quality of life.