This paper reviews literature on mouth sticks and presents information from a survey of occupational therapists specializing in the treatment of persons with spinal cord injuries. The review discusses the standards of mouth-stick design that have been established by dentists, but the survey suggests that occupational therapy practice is widely discrepant from these standards. The author suggest...

Prolonged pre-operative fasting can be an unpleasant experience and result in serious medical complications. The Royal College of Nursing guidelines state a minimum fasting period of six hours for food and two hours for clear fluids, prior to elective anaesthesia or sedation in healthy patients. We audited the Moorfields South Pre-operative Assessment Unit fasting instruction policy to ensure i...

The primary purpose of this pilot study was to test the feasibility of an intervention designed to reduce care-resistant behaviors (CRBs) in persons with moderate-to-severe dementia during oral hygiene activities. The intervention, Managing Oral Hygiene Using Threat Reduction (MOUTh), combined best oral hygiene practices with CRB reduction techniques. Oral health was operationalized as the tota...

Despite the high degree of social organization and complex behaviour of many cichlids, little is known about the role of chemical communication in these fish. The Mozambique tilapia is a maternal mouth-brooding cichlid; territorial males congregate in leks and are actively sought by ripe females. When approached by a female, males display a range of well-characterized behaviours such as nestdig...

The mouth ages along with the face, but it is frequently ignored when performing facial rejuvenation. The authors have addressed the mouth area with direct surgical options and excisions since 1980. In using the direct approach, the tradeoff for an improved appearance at a conversational distance is a scar that is barely visible from inches away. In more than 3000 procedures, the results have b...

Human breath is composed of highly complex substances with numerous variable odors which can generate unpleasant conditions like halitosis. Halitosis is a Latin word which is derived from halitus (breathed air) and the osis (pathologic alteration) 1 and it is used to describe any disagreeable bad or unpleasant odor emanating from the mouth air and breath. Foetororis, oral malodor, mouth odor, b...

UNLABELLED Chlorhexidine (0.2%) is a 'Gold Standard' which is commercially available and effective mouth rinse which inhibits supragingival plaque formation and also reduction in the population of S. mutans after rinsing daily. Lately, it has been proved that the force of magnetism has a great influence on the living organism. Magnetized water has its effect on human body when taken regularly f...

word of mouth communications in marketing is one of the important informal communication tools between consumer of goods, service and organizations which is appointed with the researchers. the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between locus of control with word of mouth communication between students of isfahan university. this is a survey study which it is samples were 243...

abstract salivary gland tumors are among the pathologies in the head and neck that may be challenging in diagnosis and treatment. most benign tumors occur in the parotid gland. pleomorphic adenoma is the most common type. basal cell adenoma is a subtype of the monomorphic adenoma with rare occurrence. proper diagnosis and clinical evaluation by the use of radiography can lead the physician to t...