PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the use and acceptance of digital radiographic examinations by Brazilian dental practitioners in daily practice and to evaluate the advances that have occurred over the past 5 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS Dental practitioners enrolled in extension courses at the Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Brazil, responded to a self-admin...

The IJME editorial in the January-March 2011 (1) issue calls on the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to reform itself in order to be able to play a more proactive role in health activism in the country. As the largest body representing (allopathic) doctors in India, the IMA can use the leverage of numbers and presence across the country to push for much needed health reform. This would be in li...

Previous dental graduates have reported a lack of confidence in their ability to implement business practices upon graduation. The purpose of the new model was to enable senior students to gain experience using sound business principles in their senior year. This model involves setting and meeting production goals, teamwork, personnel evaluation, and performance incentives. This article reports...

PURPOSE The objectives of this study were to: (1) determine the geographic distribution of pediatric dentists in private practice across the United States; and (2) compare state-based pediatric dental practitioner-to-children ratios. METHODS Enumeration of pediatric dental practitioners was derived from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's 2000-01 Membership Directory by including al...

been reported by many workers in Europe and America and the strains isolated have been studied. The reports about the effects beneficial or otherwise of various sulpha group of drugs with and without anti-haemophilus specific sera and streptomycin in such cases have been published. In India except in large cityhospitals, bacteriological investigation even of hospital cases is not often possible...

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) preferentially affects females at childbearing age. For this reason patients and treating physicians were frequently confronted with questions concerning family planning, pregnancy and birth. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the expertise about pregnancy related topics in multiple sclerosis of neurologists in private practice. METHODS We dev...

Dr. Pitman is Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY. Dr. Aston is Surgeon Director and Chairman, Department of Plastiic Surgery, Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital and Professor of Plastic Surgery, New York University School of Medicine and Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, New York, NY. Dr. Feldman is Associate Clinical Prof...

OBJECTIVES To compare outpatients from private practices and outpatients from a university clinic regarding the determinants of completion of advance directives (AD) in order to generalise results of studies from one setting to the other. Five determinants of completion of AD were studied: familiarity with AD, source of information about AD, prior experiences with own life-threatening diseases ...

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?My attention was drawn about three years ago to a specific remedy for acute dysentery while serving in the Mymensingh District Jail, to which I have given sufficient trial in dispensary and private practice, and as the results have invariably been satisfactory, I think they should have a further trial at the hands of others ; and I believe the...

BACKGROUND/AIM This qualitative study formed part of a large-scale, multi-phase study into the delivery of therapy services to people with a disability, living in one rural area of New South Wales, Australia. The study's purpose was to identify the impact of Information and Communication Technology on the workforce practices of occupational therapists' working in a rural area of New South Wales...