Objective: To determive the frequent of myths and remedies rampant among the patients visiting a private teaching dental hospital. Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study at SBDC Peshawar, Pakistan, of patients coming to the hospital in months of Sept-Oct 2019. They were questioned about wrong beliefs, erroneous remedies and fake news among the masses. Data was analyzed using SPSS 16. Results: The sample comprised of 250 adults with 66.8% males and 33.2% females. Mean age was found to be 29.87 with a SD of 11.36. Most common beliefs were that whiter teeth are sign of healthy teeth (77.3%) and intake of antibiotics is mandatory after every extraction and RCT (66.8%). Many believed that scaling can weaken teeth (44%) and amalgam can cause cancer (40.8%). did regular dental checkups were not regarded important by 40.8%. A large number of female population (51.8%) believed in false remedies like treating a painful tooth with clove oil, aspirin and salt water rinses. Conclusion: There is wide spread of misconception in public about oral health care and what constitutes a healthy dentition as well as the proper management of oral health diseases.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of assistive devices to enhancethe activity of daily living  (ADL) and quality (QoL) of life in post-polio paralyzed childrenvisitingthe rehabilitation centre of Peshawar, Pakistan. Methodology: It was an interventional study, before and after using the AT, carried out in the PIPOS rehabilitation centre, Peshawar, from 2021 January to July.A total of 246 children of age 10-15 years were recruited.Both the genders, male(159) and female (87) with post-polio paralysis, were included.Before the intervention, verbal consent was taken from all these children, semi-structured questionnaire was developed to see the effect of the assistive device usage before and after 6 months to check the quality of ADL and QoL.The SUNNAAS index for ADL and WHO-BREFindex for quality of life (QoL) were used. The analysis was done on STATA version 14.0. Results: Male 95 and female 65 children participated in our study. The meandifference was -8.658 was analyzedfor the SUNNAS index of ADL, and the mean of -22.479 and SD 6.350 for the WHO index of QoL were analyzed at a 95% confidence interval. Two paired t-test was significant, with a value of 0.000 P-value for both the indices.

OBJECTIVE:Background: Worldwide oropharyngeal cancers are one of ten most common cancers. A multitude of factors are responsible for the development of oropharyngeal cancers. Some factors are non- modifiable like age, sex, genetics and many are modifiable risk factors like tobacco use, chewing betel nuts, eating paan, alcohol and UV light exposure etc. The main purpose of this study was to analyze frequency and different risk factors associated with oropharyngeal cancers among males visiting tertiary care hospitals of Peshawar.METHODOLOGY:A cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 male patients having different cancers visiting tertiary care hospitals of Peshawar. Study duration was 5 months from January to May 2015. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used. Semi-structured questionnaire, Patient’s record were used as data collecting tools. Different risk factors were assessed and analyzed.RESULTS:Frequency of oropharyngeal cancers was found to be 19%. Common risk factors among these patients were prolong Ultra violet light exposure (4-8 hrs) 74%, 42% were smokers, 42% had history of oral thrush, 37% patients were in a habit of taking snuff regularly, 36% history of leukoplakia and 16% had smoked meat diet history.CONCLUSION:Prolong exposure to ultra violet radiations, smoking, snuff and human papiloma virus increases risk of patients for oropharyngeal cancers.