OBJECTIVES The aim of this work was to evaluate saliva and tongue coating pH in oral healthy patients with morning bad breath before and after use of different oral mouthrinses. MATERIAL AND METHODS Saliva and tongue coating pH of 50 patients allocated in 5 groups were measured respectively by a digital pHmeter and color pH indicators, before, immediately after and 30 min after rinsing 5 diff...

v Script 1 (“viral”), for which the complaint was “Since yesterday I have had a headache, fever (around 40°C), sweating, and chills. For several days, I have had a cough and a runny nose. This morning, I felt discomfort in my throat, hoarseness, generalized weakness, and muscle pains, and I took paracetamol.” v Script 2 (“bacterial”), for which the complaint was “Since yesterday, my throat has ...

in the third stage. Mrs F., set. 36, iii.-para, was admitted on the 7th April 1889 at 11 p.m. On admission she was in a very bad state, too ill, indeed, to give any reliable account of her condition. When called to see her I found patient sitting up in bed struggling for breath, any attempt to lie down being followed by a feeling of suffocation. The face was cyanotic and of a grey hue, lips liv...

BACKGROUND Alternate day fasting (ADF; ad libitum intake "feed day" alternated with 75% restriction "fast day"), is effective for weight loss, but the safety of the diet has been questioned. Accordingly, this study examined occurrences of adverse events and eating disorder symptoms during ADF. FINDINGS Obese subjects (n = 59) participated in an 8-week ADF protocol where food was provided on t...

symptoms ? 2nd.? How far, in these cases, does the fever depend on the intestinal lesions? A few preliminary words about Cf abdominal symptoms." These are generally pain, diarrhoea, constipation, tympanitis, local and general, furred tongue, bad breath, and, above all, abdominal tenderness discoverable on deep palpation. There is the colicky pain due to occluded gas, and also pain in tender spo...

Honey is a natural sweetener, but it is not just a sweetener it’s a nature’s gift to mankind. Natural honey has various ingredients in it, that contribute to its incredible properties. It’s antimicrobial properties have attracted researchers towards itself and now we can find many research papers published on this topic. Honey is normally used in our daily life for treatment of hearing loss, ba...

Most complex diseases often go undiagnosed under the shield of an unobjectionable sign/ symptom. Halitosis or bad breath is one such very common sign seen in people of almost all age groups. It is usually physiological due to wrong eating habits, neglected oral hygiene but can also be one of the manifestations of pathology like periodontal and oral causes, systemic disorders, psychological alte...

Salivary duct lithiasis is a condition characterized by the obstruction of a salivary gland or its excretory duct due to the formation of calcareous concretions or sialoliths resulting in salivary ectasia and even provoking the subsequent dilation of the salivary gland. Sialolithiasis accounts for 30% of salivary diseases and most commonly involves the submaxillary gland (83 to 94%) and less fr...

We explore the use of the Spiral Array spatial visualization of tonal evolution through time for the visual analysis of P.D.Q. Bach’s The ShortTempered Clavier. In particular, we analyze situations in which we can see some of the humour devices abstracted in an earlier study by David Huron. We conclude that although we can see a good number of Schickele’s humour devices − such as incongruent st...