Materials and Methods:The study was a cross-sectional questionnaire based survey at ojha hospital. The patient selection was random and the products of questionnaire received were based on likert scale coding. The results were measured through spss 16 software by applying descriptive analysis and anova test. Descriptive analysis was done to measure central tendency of the responses. Results:The mean values of all the variables lie between MEAN=2.8 to 4.3 i.e. more than fair to good. The overall patient's satisfaction level is calculates a 4.0 with standard deviation of SD=1.1. The responses of administrative efficiency, dentist proficiency, clinical setup and advocation if profoundly significant i.e. p value=<0.05 whereas responses of facilities compared with number of visits is not significant p value = >0.05 and vice -versa. The anova test applied within groups for number of visits over y axis is y = 0.1366x + 0.0754 with R² = 0.5396 whereas for level of education is y = 0.0056x + 0.0358 and R² = 0.0566. Conclusion:It is concluded majority of patients were satisfied with the interaction between dentist and the patient, technical expertise, administrative competence and hospital's environment whereas responses for the facilities compared with number of visits is not substantial but
Background: This study is carried out with an objective to comparative investigation of antibacterial and antifungal potentials of four medicinal plants of Pakistan. The ethanol extract of Aloe vera (gel), Azadirachta indica (bark), Salvadora persica (stem) and Syzygium aromaticum (oil) were used against Streptococcus salivarius, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus uberis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Candida albican. Method: Antimicrobial activity was evaluated by agar well diffusion assay at 20, 10 and 5mg/ml concentration of test samples. Ampicillin is used as standard drug. The sensitivity of microorganisms to all selected parts of four plants were compared with each other and with standard antibiotics. All plant extracts showed increase in antimicrobial activity with increase in concentration. Result: Among all extracts the extract of A. vera present maximum antimicrobial activity in dose dependent manner with highest zone of inhibition of 29.1±3.2 at 20mg/ml conc. while S. persica exhibited minimum antimicrobial activity with zone of inhibition 17.5±2.5 at 20mg/ml conc. Conclusion: The present study suggested that theses medicinal plants contain certain compounds which can be used to discover bioactive natural products to cure common dental problems, which are safe and economical. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.19(2) 2020 p.284-290
In this study, the attitude, knowledge and awareness of the dental students of Karachi were evaluated on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV). Cross-sectional and nonexperimental study was carried out on 377 dental students. Data were analyzed using PASW v.18 and Minitab 11 statistical software. Mean ± standard error of mean (SEM) was used to represent participant's scores. Spearmen correlation coefficient (R) was used to test the association of variables. Regression analysis and scatter plot was also used to represent the score wise association of variables. 71% was the total return rate of questionnaire in which 18.2% were male and 81.2% were female dental students. The mean age was 20.93 ± 0.1. Cronbach's alpha (α) value was 88%. The attitude score was 22.66 ± 0.22, knowledge was 23.12 ± 0.25 and awareness was 16.12 ± 0.14. Total aggregated score was 61.89 ± 0.54 and Spearman R coefficient of all these variables showed strong positive direct association (P < 0.0001). Regression analysis and scatter plots also verify the aforementioned impacts. Findings conclude that, majority of the respondents have positive attitude with good knowledge and awareness towards the aforementioned infections which definitely contribute to its prevention as well as transmission.
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