Can We Tune Our Pediatric Patients?

Can We Tune Our Pediatric Patients?

For the pedodontic team, a child's dental anxiety poses major management problems. Previously, wide variety of aversive techniques have been used with varying success rates to manage anxious child patients. The present trend advocates the use of nonaversive techniques like distraction in the management of anxious pediatric patients. So the aim of this study is to compare the effect of audio dis...

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

Congestive heart failure: what can we offer our patients?

Ablation of atrial fibrillation: what can we tell our patients?

Although catheter-based radiofrequency ablation is no longer experimental, it is not yet the first-line treatment for most patients. The authors describe how this procedure works, its indications, benefits, and limitations, and important points to communicate to potential candidates for this procedure.

Can we protect our patients and employees from childhood diseases?

Nosocomial infections acquired by hospital personnel pose a special problem for the infection control practitioner. Even in an institution with an established employee health program and clearly designed procedures, an outbreak of measles or varicella causes time-consuming and expensive investigations. Chou et al were prompted by a measles outbreak in their community to review the available dat...