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Health is one of the most challenging sectors in the underdeveloped and developing countries. In countries like India where majority of population do not have access to medical health; oral health is of least importance. Prevalence of dental diseases has been steadily increasing over the years especially oral cancerous lesions. However despite the improved dentist to population ratio and substantial increase in number of dental college we are yet to achieve the desired oral health status as the problem lies not in number but on the distribution of college and dental surgeon. Increased appointment time and OPD procedure followed by dental college were cited as the major reason for low OPD at Dental Colleges. There is urgent need to bring about certain changes in the oral health programme and OPD procedure followed by the dental colleges and hospital. Use of Information Technology to streamline the OPD procedure should be implemented. Effort should be made to make the dental services as accessible to the general population as possible. Tax incentives and benefits for dentist and dental hospital opened at rural area should be thought of. Dental post at every PHC's should be created so as to make dental treatment accessible to population along with medical facilities.

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Congenital malaria (CM) is a rare disease with only about 300 cases reported so far. In general, it presents with fever along with other common features such as jaundice, anemia and hepatosplenomegaly. We report a case of CM who presented atypically without fever along with other typical features.

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