In the words of Gary Doern, Ph.D., a colleague, collaborator, and friend, “Few people have made more significant and lasting contributions to the field of clinical microbiology than has Jim Jorgensen, not only as a dedicated practitioner but also as an extremely productive researcher, an uncommonly effective educator, a broad reaching author, and a lifelong advocate for the discipline.” Such se...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of undergraduates in their first contact with manual and rotary root canal instrumentation. Forty-two students who had never worked on a root canal before instrumented 42 extracted lower-incisors. Participants were assigned to one of two groups: Rotary instrumentation or manual instrumentation. Pre- and post-operative computed tomography sca...

OBJECTIVES To assess knowledge, attitude and practices of first aid measures in undergraduate students of Karachi. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out at six colleges of Karachi, three of which were medical colleges and three non-medical colleges. Knowledge was assessed regarding various emergency situations with the help of a questionnaire. The target population size was 460, bas...

PURPOSE This study was to examine safety awareness of sports among university students.METHODS Total 1950 students 9 regions responded questionnaires on with using simple random sampling. The date were analyzed by frequency analysis and Two-way ANOVA.RESULTS results this werew as follows: Fistly, male experienced education more than female students. In addition, the took place in field, but mos...

UNLABELLED Facial trauma has presented an increasing occurrence in the last four decades, due especially to the growth of accidents with automobiles as well as to the urban violence. Both of which continue being the main cause of such traumas. AIM To evaluate the features of the population victim of facial trauma as to gender, age, occupation, origin, type of fracture and its cause. DESIGN ...

During the time we have been in a private company that provide schools with medical care, we were surprised by the frequent and constant phone calls received to ask for our services. This fact made us take the decision to carry out a survey to find out the accidents and the most frequent injuries. According to the retrospective study we realized throughout two different academic courses in seve...