The objective of this study was to see the effect of lip morphology in the study sample presenting with bimaxillary dentoalveolar protrusion on normal skeletal pattern. This cross sectional study comprised 50 subjects having bimaxillary dentoalveolar protrusion on class I skeletal pattern. Age of the subjects ranged from 18-25 years. The sampling comprised random selection of the subjects. The ...

Spindle cell lipoma (SCL) is a rare distinct variant of lipoma, which presents as a painless, circumscribed, slow-growing, superficial lesion on the lip and can mimic a minor salivary gland tumour. We present a slow growing lower lip lesion and its management. Case Report. A 38-year-old female gave an eight-year history of a slow-growing mass on her lower lip with intermittent change in size. S...

Abstract This article summarises the history of cinnabar, from its first uses in burials to modern oils on canvas. After a brief introduction mercury and contamination issues, gets heart topic. First, mercury-based minerals significant for studying pigments, i.e . metacinnabar, hypercinnabar calomel, are presented. Structural information properties precede an overview geographic distribution ci...

INTRODUCTION Existing studies on facial growth were mostly cross-sectional in nature and only a limited number of facial measurements were investigated. The purposes of this study were to longitudinally investigate facial growth of Chinese in Hong Kong from 12 through 15 to 18 years of age and to compare the magnitude of growth changes between genders. METHODS AND FINDINGS Standardized fronta...

We analyzed angling catch records for 341,959 muskellunge (Esox masquinongy) from North America to test for a cyclic lunar influence on the catch. Using periodic regression, we showed that the number caught was strongly related to the 29-day lunar cycle, and the effect was consistent across most fisheries. More muskellunge were caught around the full and new moon than at other times. At night, ...