Halitosis causes a distressing effect on confidence and personality of a person and may affect so terribly that person may avoid socializing. This article reviews the aetiopathogenesis and management of halitosis. Thus, the present review is an effort to increase the depth of knowledge of diagnosis and management of halitosis among dentists.

' of military service, his long series ; of prison sentences, interspersed ; with chaotic liaisons with women, r his virtual unemployability, inability to make lasting relationships, and finally his death at 40 as a result of swallowing pins?but not before he had achieved some notoriety through a series of autobiographical monologues on the B.B.C. Third Programme. Although the story reaches poi...

An otherwise healthy 35-year-old woman presented to our clinic in Central Texas complaining of malaise, whole body rash, and joint pain of 2 days duration. She had recently returned from her honeymoon in Bora Bora after a ten day stay. She stayed in an air-conditioned resort but did sleep a few nights under a mosquito tent in the tropical forest where she suffered from multiple insect bites. On...

The recent hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's and Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nominations to the Supreme Court vividly exemplify the enthusiastic concurrence between the senators and the nominee that judges make neither law nor policy. Judges decide particular cases between particu­ lar litigants, the questioners and the responders agree, and in doing so they apply laws and policies made b...

Attempts are being made to include members of excluded groups in societal institutions. Inclusion has been proposed as the solution to the injustice caused by exclusion. Yet, inclusion does not always achieve justice and might sometimes perpetuate injustice. This Article provides a framework for understanding inclusion that may fail to achieve social justice and uses this framework to assess th...