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The importance of hands in the transmission of hospital infections has been well demonstrated and hand hygiene reduces the prevalence of hospital acquired infections. The study was designed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, practices and satisfaction of the available facilities among Postgraduates and CRRIs and to identify the gaps in hand hygiene practices and to implement an Institutional program on hand hygiene policy. A self-administered questionnaire was used. The study was conducted between September 2018 and November 2018. A total of 275 participants (148 Postgraduates and 127 CRRIs) participated in the study. Data was analyzed using Microsoft excel 2010 software. Pearson chi-square test was used to check for statistically significant differences. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Majority had moderate knowledge (90.9%) whereas postgraduates had better knowledge than CRRIs. The study population had moderate attitude (40.7%) and practices (44%). Postgraduates had good attitude and practices than the CRRIs. 73.5% suggested improvement of the available facilities. A need for hand hygiene training program and multifaceted interventional behavioral program particularly for the medical students to improve the compliance.

Dental Caries is multifactorial in nature and preventive strategies are a must and are being followed since decades. A tooth (which is primarily mineral in content) is in a constant state of Demineralisation and remineralisation with the surrounding saliva. Pediatric dentistry faces challenges in preventive strategies of oral and dental health in children and adolescents. The search for alternative products such as use of phytochemicals isolated from plants are considered to be good alternatives, hence an introduction of Ayurvedic Medicine in this context holds a lot of temptations and over rulings. Ayurveda an ancient science based on herbal therapies believes that dental problems can be treated by balancing the three doshas of a human body -The Vatta, Pita and Kapha, just like any other diseased condition. Thus this article aims to review the prospects and perspectives of use of Ayurveda in Dentistry as a whole and its affinity in Pediatric Dentistry.

Background: Menstruation is a physiological process but generally it is considered as unclean in the Indian society. Hygiene related practices of menstruation are of considerable importance as it has health impact in terms of increased vulnerability to reproductive tract infections (RTI) and drop outs from school. A good knowledge regarding menstrual hygiene is important during adolescence age which helps to practice good hygiene, minimize the sufferings of women and to manage their menstruation without any hesitation.Methods: A cross sectional study was undertaken in a rural field practice area of BMCRI, Bengaluru. Data was collected from 311 adolescent girls by using predesigned semi structured questionnaire.Results: It was evident that 38.3% participants were aware about menstruation before their menarche and among them; mothers were the main source of the information for 72.3% girls. It was found that 80.4% respondents used sanitary pads and 73.6% girls did not have practice of changing the adsorbent in the school. Only 27.7% had the practice of changing ≥4 pads/cloths per day during the menstruation. Majority of the girls were restricted to enter the place of worship (73.3%) and to attend the religious functions (41.5%) and also restriction to eat certain food items among 20.3% girls. There was a significant association between the religion and the frequency of changing the adsorbent and cleaning the external genitalia during the menstrual period.Conclusions: This study could found that majority of the girls had no information about menstruation before menarche. Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) was very poor.