OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether tonsillectomy in children leads to subsequent reduction in mouth opening. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of ENT/Head and Neck Surgery, Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar, from October 2005 to December 2006. METHODOLOGY A total of 42 children undergoing tonsillectomy (Group A = requiring insertion of a mouth gag) and 44 pat...

hdications for the use of an individually designed jaw exerciser together with the method of fabrication and patient instructions and reports of two cases of post-traumatic progressive fibrous ankylosis of the temporomandibular joints are described. (Received for publicarion April 1984. Revised May 1985.) Introduction Jaw exercisers can be divided into five types: screw' or wedge, cast metal ca...

This case was the first of its kind to address questions of personhood [5] in the context of in vitro [6] fertilization [7] of a human embryo. It laid a foundation for future cases to work from: specifically, this case established the importance of prior written agreements for disposition of frozen embryos. This was also the first court decision to borrow the word ?pre-embryo? from bioethics to...

again but failed to extract the foreign body. I could feel the foreign body by passing one finger, into the gullet from the mouth. There was no children's size laryngeal forceps available. On the 14th August, 1925, I screened her myself and found the foreign body lying transversely in the larynx just above the vocal cords. On 15th August, 1925, I put her under chloroform. A gag was put into her...

angle of the mouth to the ear, and the growth dissected out by scissors, including a liberal margin of subjacent and surrounding healthy tissue. A vertical incision was made from the middle of the transverse cut, and the enlarged sub-maxillary glands removed through it. The wound was then carefully stitched, and a drainage tube inserted through its lower angle. It healed by first intention in e...

Morquio syndrome, also described as Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) type IV A in literature, are rare progressive and autosomal recessive lysosomal storage diseases characterised by deficiency of enzymes N- acetyl-galactosamine-6-sulphate sulphatase beta-galactosidase that decreases the catabolism glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) cause accumulation soft tissue, bone cartilage giving rise to severe skeletal...

Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-glycosaminoglycan (GAG) hydrogel networks are established as very versatile biomaterials. Herein, the synthetic gel component of biohybrid materials is systematically varied by combining different poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazolines) (POx) with heparin applying a Michael-type addition crosslinking scheme: POx gradated hydrophilicity and temperature-responsiveness provides poly...

Dear Editor, Compression of endotracheal tube in palatopharyngeal surgery is an inherent problem. Many modifications of the Davis mouth gag have been used. The tongue blade has also undergone various modifications to prevent endotracheal tube compression. A slot and a middle groove have been incorporated to prevent the tube compression. This definitely reduced the magnitude of the problem. Late...