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Early childhood caries (ECC) is defined as a condition of one or more of decayed, missing, and filling in teeth (dmft) of children aging less than 71 months or even younger. Prevalence and severity of ECC is still high in some countries. Aim of this study to evaluate the effect of streptococcal IgY on the quantity of Streptococcus mutans in high caries risk children. 20 children aged 3-5 years were selected from the Department of Pedodontics of which 10 children were with high caries experience and 10 were controls who were caries free. Saliva swabs were taken from  the occlusal surface of primary second molars and microbial count was  counted using mitis salivarius bactaracinagar. High risk caries were given one No decayTM tablet morning and evening for 15 days. Swabs were taken before intervention and than 1 month, 2 months and 3 months post intervention. Streptococcus mutans count was significantly reduced in patients who have taken no decay tablets. Within the limits of the study, we found that streptococcal IgY was able to reduced streptococcus mutans count after 2 months. There was no statistically significant difference in  Streptococcus mutans count between high caries risk children and caries free children after 3 months.

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Maxillary and mandibular third molars with dilacerated root forms and curvature play a significant role in the treatment planning regarding whether the tooth can be extracted normally or go for trans alveolar extraction. The aim of this study is to assess the association of root curvature and trans alveolar extraction of upper and lower third molars. Preoperative assessment reduces the surgical difficulty and is fundamental for treatment planning and extraction of impacted third molars. We reviewed the case records of the patients who underwent trans alveolar extraction and analysed the data of 94 patients from June 2019 to March 2020 and was tabulated in excel. The data analysis was done in SPSS by IBM, and output was generated as bar charts. In this study, we observed that out of the total 94 trans alveolar extraction performed, 50% of the incidence was below 45 years out of which dilacerated roots were present in 28.7% cases. Results were tabulated and represented as bar charts.so within the limitations of the study we observed that root morphology did not have a significant role in deciding about the treatment whether the teeth will go for open or transalveolar extraction.

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