Prevalence of dental caries experience among school going children in Karachi

To find out the Prevalence of Dental Caries Experience among school going children. To compare the difference between male and female restorative care. The Cross-sectional study comprised of school going children aged 9 to 18 years in Karachi, Pakistan. 327 subjects including 186 males and 141 females participated in the study. The results of the study showed that the prevalence of dental caries among children were 39.4%.The DMF among study subjects is found to be 5, so there is increased number of school going children have dental caries experience and no significant difference was found to be among male and female need of dental care

Prevalence of malocclusion among school going children in north Karachi

To find out the percentage of a malocclusion aged 12-18 years among school going children and to assess World Health Organization [WHO] criteria of malocclusion. The study design was cross-sectional. The study comprised of 327 subjects including 186 males and 141 females of school going age [12-18 years]. The 19.2% of the study subjects were suffering from moderate to severe malocclusion, and 35.2% were having slight malocclusion. Overall malocclusion was 54.4%, out of which 56.3% females and 42.5% were in males. More than 50% of the study subjects, suffering from malocclusion was school going children age 12-18 years. Specific treatment [strategies] modalities need to be designed in order to decrease the orthodontic [malocclusion] problems

Feasibility of day case surgery in ENT

A variety of surgical procedures in otolaryngology are treated as day case surgery. The patients are screened and selected before giving an appointment for certain surgical procedures. There are well-established criterions for suitability of day case surgery. In this study 500 patients were interviewed to see the suitability for day case surgery. A Combination of domestic problems, anesthesia problems, and inability to co-op with day case surgery criterion are discussed. Design: It is s prospective study. Place and duration of study: This study was conducted at ENT Department of Lahore General Hospital Lahore. From January 2000 to June 2002. Subjects and A Performs was filled after interviewing the patients to see the suitability for day case surgery. The problems of patients, who were unable to fulfill the criteria, are discussed in detail. This study proves that more than 85% of patients are not suitable for day case surgery in our setup. Day case surgery is not feasible in patients coming from rural areas

Heroin addiction results in altered activities of myocardial enzymes in human subjects

Drug addiction is increasing beyond imagination in our society and in our country the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Drugs commonly used in Pakistan are heroin, morphine, cocaine and cannabis. Studies were carried out on twenty-seven [27] street heroin injection taking a fixed dose of 1.3 gm of heroin par day for at least 11 years. Aspartate transminasc [AST], Lactate dehydrogease [LDH], Creatine Kinase [CK[and isoenzyme of creatine kinase [CK-MB] were estimated and results were compared with those of normal human subjects as control. The activity of LDH, AST and CK were significantly high but no significant change was observed in the level of CK-MB. It is concluded that alteration in the cardiac enzymes during heroin addiction is not only due to cardiac injury but other pathologic resulting from addiction are also rspnsible for the elevation of these enzymes