:Aims: A descriptive type of cross-sectional study was conducted comprising 100 non-commissioned soldiers of Bangladesh Army attended Dhaka combined military hospital (CMH) during January to July 2012, to find out the factors affecting their oral health. Materials and Methods:Data were collected by structured questionnaire. Collected data were compiled, tabulated, analyzed by computer using SPSS version 16.0.Results: Mean age of the respondents was 30.16±5.09 (range 20-41) years where about 60% were married.Most (91%) of themcompleted secondary school certificate. Eightypercent (80%) lived in barracks and 97% had idea about dental diseases and 3% had not.Of all, 73% respondents brushed their teeth once daily and 27%, twice daily.Majority(76%)respondents brushed their teeth at morning and the lowest 11% after breakfast and the rest (13%) brushed their teeth at bed time.Ninety nine percent(99%) respondents used tooth paste as cleaning materials and only 1% respondents used something else.In this study, 40.0% visited dentist once in a year, 17% twice in a year and 43% did never visit dentist without dental problem. Usually48% visited dental chamber for gum bleeding and only 1%visited for regular dental checkups. Among the respondents, 36% visited dental chamber for pain and 15% visited dental chamber for detection of dental caries by themselves. The notable bad habits were not observed among 84.0% of the respondents. A few respondents had smoking (6.0%), betel nut chewing (4.0%) and snuff dipping (3.0%)habits. Of all,63% of the respondents had swelling of gum and 37% had no swelling of gum. Presence and absence of calculus on the gingival margin were found 47% and 53%, respectively.In view of individual perspective,2DMFT had among 40.0% respondents, followed by 1DMFT, 29%, 4DMFT,12%, 3DMFT, 3.0% and 16% respondents had no DMFT. Conclusions:Overall findings suggest that the factors that affect the oral health were smoking, frequency of tooth brushing, having some bat habits and visit to dentist when dental symptoms such as bleeding gums or toothache occurred. Clinical factors included bleeding and swollen gums, toothache and caries.

Emergency department is one of the most important part of the hospital and also vulnerable to criticism. The reputation of a hospital rests to a large extent on the service of emergency department. The sudden and unexpected nature on the emergency produces panic and psychological disturbances to the relatives, which must be valued and borne in mind during organization and management of services. A descriptive type of cross sectional study was conducted at Emergency Department of National Institute of Cardiovascular Hospital, Dhaka to evaluate the existing facilities, waiting time for the patients for receiving treatment, emergency referral rate and availability of health personnel, overall management and patient’s suggestion to improve the services of the emergency department. A total of 150 patients were interviewed by a structured questionnaire and a checklist was utilized for equipments and drugs. It was observed that the mean age 49.49 years. About 38.7% patients were attended by doctor within 6-10 minutes. Shifting of the patients form emergency department to another hospital was 12%.  87.3% patients were satisfied with time to complete treatment. In emergency department 69.3%   patients were satisfied with reception facility, 89.3% patients were satisfied with given treatment, 92% patients were satisfied with doctor’s service and 74% patients were satisfied with the service of the support staff. About 90% patients were satisfied with overall management. The findings of cardiac emergency services obtained through check-list were fairly comparable with the opinions expressed by the patients. For further management of emergency department patients gave suggestion for arrangement of waiting room and toilet facility, X-ray and other laboratory facility for emergency patient should be made available for all the duty shift, drugs should be supply adequately and on regular basis. They suggested for augmentation of the equipments, drugs and security and other facilities and recruitment of some trained service providers. According to the patients the Emergency Department is well-studded to manage most of the cardiac emergencies. However, specific problems identified by different stakeholders need to be critically appraised by the authority to improve the services further.DOI: http://doi.dx.org/10.3329/bjdre.v2i2.16245 Bangladesh Journal of Dental Research & Education Vol.2(2) 2012: 52-57