Abstract Abstract Backgr Backgr Backgr Backgr Background: ound: ound: ound: ound: An acknowledgement of the patient's perspectives about compliance towards doctors' advices is critical in ensuring better results of medical consultation. The compliance to therapies is a primary determinant of treatment success.The authors found a serious dearth of research on this issue.

Background: Food faddism may be labeled as an ice-berg phenomenonoccurring in our population; still there is dearth of research work on this issue; therefore weconducted a baseline study on this problem of public health importance in order to explorehidden facts about this practice. Objectives: (1) To assess the food faddism practices amongresidents of Taluka Latifabad, Hyderabad. (2). To determine the risk factors associated with foodfaddism. (3). To determine the association of food faddism to health status of the participants.Study design: Cross sectional study. Place of study & duration: A community based study oftwo months’ duration (from 1st May-30thJune 2013) conducted in Taluka Latifabad units 4, 7 &12, district Hyderabad. Methodology: 450 subjects were selected by convenience type ofsampling & were registered for the study. The sample comprised of 200 women of child bearingage and 250 children of age ≤ 5 years. Results: The frequency of food faddism was found to be58% i.e. 71.5% among women of child bearing age and 47.2% among children at age ≤ 5years.Living in joint families & being illiterate were associated factors for practice of food faddism(p=0.01) & (p=0.04) respectively. Majority (79.31%) of respondents got advice for this practicefrom family elders; while 36.78% got such advice from family physicians. Being malnourished &borne as low birth weight were its major health outcomes among children. Conclusions: Foodfaddism intangibly affects women & children’s health; therefore elders of the families as well asfamily physicians should be taken on-board to control this dietary malpractice in thecommunities.

Aims: To determine the pattern of chewable tobacco habits, to assess the oral hygiene habits among patients visiting dental OPD and to determine the association of oral health maintenance and chewable tobacco with severity of periodontal disease. Study Design: It was a comparative cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Dental Outpatient Department, Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad and Jamshoro for six months from 1st February 2020 to 31st July 2020. Methodology: A total of 362 subjects were selected by non-probability sampling technique. A pre-designed questionnaire was used to collect the data. Questionnaire forms was close and open ended. The investigator checked the patients, under the supervision of the OPD specialist and classified the periodontal health status. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS v.22) was used for data analysis. Results: A total of 362 subjects, (84.5%) male and (15.5%) females were included in the study with the mean age 34.9 and SD ± 11.7. A highly significant association was found between chewable tobacco consumption and oral hygiene habits on periodontal health (p=<0.001) and statistically significant difference was found between the scores of measure of probing depth and loss of attachment for male and females (p=<0.001). Conclusion: Periodontal diseases and poor oral hygiene have been diagnosed in all consumers of chewable tobacco. Usage of various types of chewing tobacco has been found to exacerbate the condition by developing pocket formation, bleeding on the probe, and inducing gingival recession as well.