BACKGROUND Neonatal infections caused by unsafe umbilical cord practices account for the majority of neonatal deaths in Nigeria. We examined the trends in umbilical cord care practices between 2012 and 2015 that coincided with the introduction of chlorhexidine digluconate 7.1% gel in Bauchi and Sokoto States. METHODS We obtained data from three rounds of lot quality assurance samples (LQAS) s...

AIM To compare the effectiveness of two anti-infective protocols for the treatment of peri-implant mucositis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-nine patients with one implant diagnosed with peri-implant mucositis (bleeding on probing [BOP] with no loss of supporting bone) were randomly assigned to a control or test group. Following an assessment of baseline parameters (probing depth, BOP, suppurat...

Roughened surfaces are increasingly being used for dental implant applications as the enlarged contact area improves bone cell anchorage, thereby facilitating osseointegration. However, the additional surface area also entails a higher risk for the development of biofilm associated infections, an etiologic factor for many dental ailments, including peri-implantitis. To overcome this problem, we...

OBJECTIVE Site marking is essential to prevent wrong-site surgery, and there are many skin markers commercially available. However, preoperative skin preparation can erase the site mark, especially when a chlorhexidine skin preparation solution that requires skin scrubbing is used. The purpose of our study was to test the hypothesis that some markers can withstand skin preparation with a chlorh...

217 Dear Sirs, We appreciated the article “Early management of the burned auricle” by Kamal A., Kamel A.H., and El Oteify M., recently published in Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters, 17: 197-200, 2004. Auricle burns still carry a high rate of infective complications: according to the literature about 10% of cases evolve into chondritis. Several theories are advanced to explain post-burn chondr...

The recent COVID-19 pandemic provoked an outstanding increase of infection-control measures, with chlorhexidine becoming extensively used antiseptic. Allergic contact dermatitis to is considered as a rare event in children, often difficult identify, and its diagnosis misdiagnosed other skin diseases. We aimed explore the sensitization chlorhexidine-containing antiseptics infants children determ...

Introduction: Alveolar osteitis (AO) is one of the most common postoperative complications after third molar surgery. Various techniques have been used to reduce the risk of AO. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of Chlorhexidine (CHX) bioadhesive gel in preventing the development of AO. Methods: Patients with bilateral impacted mandibular third molars underwent surgical ex...