Survey of the Reasons for Dental Extraction in patients of Kashmiri Population

Background: Extraction of teeth is the commonest surgical procedure carried out in the dental surgery setting. The purpose of this survey was to identify the causes of teeth extraction in Kashmiri population. Material & Methods: This study was done on the patients who were referred to Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Government Dental College Srinagar for tooth extraction for the period of 6 months from February 2019 to July 2019. Total of 3000 patients were included in this study. Results: There were 1680 (56%) extractions in males and 1320 (44%) in females with male?to?female extraction ratio of 1.2:1. In both male and female gender, there were more teeth extractions between the ages of 11 and 30 years. The commonest tooth to be extracted was 1st molar both in upper (27.2%) and lower (30.4%) arch. The commonest reasons for teeth extraction were caries (53.4%; 1602/3000). Conclusions: The result of this study shows that dental caries is the commonest reason for tooth extraction in Kashmiri population. It is hoped that the study will facilitate the development of treatment and preventive procedures relevant to the problems, thus minimizing the loss of teeth and its expected adverse consequences.

Correlation of Human height with dimensions of hand. A study in Young Population of Northern India

Background: Anthropometry has continuously been used in forensic examinations of unknown commingled human remains. Forensic Anthropology is concerned with the building of ante mortem histories of individuals from skeletonized remains The aim and objective is to find out the bilateral and bisexual variations from the percutaneous measurement of length of hand and middle and little fingers of both hands of males to reconstruct the stature.Material & Methods:100 male undergraduate students were taken up for the study. The stature was measured by a stadiometer. The hand length and finger length were measured by the measuring scale and vernier calipers. The prediction of estimation of stature from the length of both hands, middle finger length and little finger length of both hands was determined.Results:The mean height in males is 174.3690±6.18 cm. The mean hand length in males is 19.74±0.87 cm in right hand and 19.65±0.83 cm in left hand. The mean length of right middle finger length is 8.32±0.45 cm and left middle finger length in males is 8.28±0.49 cm. The mean length of right little finger length is 6.38±0.43 cm and left little finger length in males is 6.27±0.52 cm.Conclusions:Positive and statistically significant correlation can be observed among the different variables taken up in the present study. Pearson’s correlation was used which can predict a significant relationship between the height and the length of hand and middle finger of male.