Objective: To determine the frequency of parasymphysis fracture in mandibular fractures due to road traffic accidents. Study Type: Cross-sectional study Duration and Place of Study: Department of OMF Surgery Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad from 1st December 2019 to 30thMay 2020 Methodology: One hundred and forty eight patients were shifted to the Radiology Department for X-rays of mandible . Fractures of mandible especially fracture of parasymphysis were seen. Results: The mean age was 47.46±21.25 years. Fractured parasymphysis was found in 75 (82%) male patients and female patients were 14% (8/57). Conclusions: The gender was found to be significantly associated with the outcome i.e. parasymphysis fracture in mandibular fractures due to road traffic accidents. The age, number of fractures and type of fractures were not found to be significantly associated with the outcome i.e. parasymphysis fracture in mandibular fractures due to road traffic accidents. Keywords: Parasymphysis fracture, Mandibular fractures, Facial injury
Objective: To compare the functional recovery of infraorbital nerve paresthesia following open reduction as compared to closed reduction in zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture management. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial. Place and Duration of Study: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dept. Dentistry Section, Ayub Medical College & Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad from 1st April 2016 to 30th September 2016. Methodology: Eighty two patients of infraorbital nerve recovery were included. They were divided in two groups; group A was treated by closed reduction technique, and group B was treated by open reduction with internal fixation technique using mini plates. Permuted blocks of 6 were used to ensure equal representation in both groups. All patients were underwent surgical management within 1-7 days following trauma. Patients were assessed post-surgery for infraorbital nerve recovery. Results: There were 63.4% males and 36.6% females in group A while 60.9% males and 39.1% females were included in group B with mean age was 28.44±7.15 years in group A and 27.93±7.33 in group B respectively. 51.2% patients have infraorbial nerve recovery in group A while 65.8% have infraorbital nerve recovery in group B. Conclusion: Closed reduction approach was found to be the best reduction technique and open reduction was effective in terms of stability, prevention of relaps and functional recovery of infraorbital nerve injuries. Key words: Functional recovery, Infraorbital nerve, Paresthesia, Closed reduction, Zygomaticomaxillary complex fracture
Unreliable networks often use excess bandwidth for data integration in smart cities. For this purpose, Messaging Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) with a certain quality of service (QoS) is employed. Data integrity and data security are frequently compromised for reducing bandwidth usage while designing integrated applications. Thus, for a reliable and secure integrated Internet of Everything (IoE) service, a range of network parameters are conditioned to achieve the required quality of a deliverable service. In this work, a QoS-0-based MQTT is developed in such a manner that the transparent MQTT protocol uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)-based connectivity with various rules for the retransmission of contents if the requests are not entertained for a fixed duration. The work explores the ways to improve the overall content delivery probability. The parameters are examined over a transparent gateway-based TCP network after developing a mathematical model for the proposed retransmission-based mutant QoS-0. The probability model is then verified by an actual physical network where the repeated content delivery is explored at VM-based MQTT, local network-based broker and a remote server. The results show that the repeated transmission of contents from the sender improves the content delivery probability over the unreliable MQTT-based Internet of Things (IoT) for developing smart cities’ applications.
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