Simplified approach for fabricating a custom made ocular prosthesis-a case report

The deformity associated with the loss of an eye causes significant physical and psychological consequences. Most patients experience significant setback, due primarily to coping with the functional disability caused by the eye removal, and to the social barrier caused due to the facial disfigurement. Therefore ocular prosthesis is essential to promote physical and psychological healing for the patient as well as to improve the social acceptance. Multidisciplinary management and team approach are essential in providing accurate and effective rehabilitation. The present case report describes a simplified technique for the fabrication of a customized ocular prosthesis that does not depend much on artistic ability of the operator and is relatively easy to perform by a prosthodontist along with saving on laboratory time

Prevalence of candida species in the oral cavity of diabetic and non-diabetic subjects in gulbarga district, karnataka, India.

Prevalence of Species of Candida in the oral cavity of one hundred and three diabetic subjects and one hundred non-diabetic subjects were studied. Species of Candida were isolated was C.albicans (54.36%), C.tropicalis (14.56%), C.krusei (4.85%), C.parapsilosis(1.94%) was isolated from oral cavity of diabetic subjects where as C.albicans (27%) was isolated from non diabetic subjects. Isolation and identification of species of Candida in diabetes mellitus will helps in antifungal therapy.