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Introduction: Trichotillomania (TTM) is a type of impulse control disorder with chronic hair pulling. It effects on behavior, feelings, thoughts and quality of life. Case Presentation: The patient is a 28 year-old single woman that was referred to hair transplantation. She was worried about her appearance, cosmetic problems and marriage. The physician noticed that she is a patient with trichotilomania type of impulse control disorder. After confirming the diagnosis of trichotillomonia by a psychiatrist, pharmacotherapy begun with Rispridone 1 mg at night, Fluvoxamine 50 mg/daily and Clomipramine 5 mg at night. Over nine months of treatment there were significant reductions in hair pulling. She was followed up and finally, the response was acceptable. Conclusions: TTM is a poorly understood disorder that requires more studies. Despite what we know about TTM, those with the disorder report not receiving enough information for diagnose and treatment. However, the information presented in this paper can help us to prevent this disorder, reduceing the prevalence and selecting the appropriate treatment.

Background: Divorce, as a consequence of family disruption, is a common phenomenon within all communities. Considering the increased frequency of divorce cases in Yazd city during recent years, this study was conducted to investigate the distribution of divorce causes and design an efficient program to deal with it. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional analytic study was conducted on the data collected from 118 male and female individuals referred to Yazd courts with divorce requests during  12 months. The participants were randomly selected and asked to complete a researcher-made questionnaire about the divorce. one of which include the participants' general information The second section contain 18 sub-scales and dealt with different causes of divorce. The collected data were analyzed by ANOVA using SPSS version 17. Results: The most effective divorce factor was misunderstanding and disagreement (44.9%), while the least important factor was friends (1.7%). Based on the results, the involvement of friends had the lowest effect on the incidence of divorce (1.7 %), while misunderstanding and disagreement were among the most frequent causes of divorce (44.9 %). Causes of divorce included addiction, unemployment, delinquency and infidelity, mental illness, violence, insults, and immorality in terms of gender differences and economic conditions represent a significant difference in the divorce rate with respect, as well as other factors of divorce. The findings represent a significant difference in the divorce rate with respect to the education status (p = 0/6). Conclusion: The findings showed that disagreement was the main factor for divorce. Disagreement includes various moral, cultural, and religious aspects. Infidelity was also another most frequent cause of divorce in Iran and other countries. Considering different factors that affect the incidence of divorce, strategies should be seriously conducted before and after marriage to prevent and decrease its frequency within the society.

A BSTRACT Background and Purpose: Dental treatment under general anesthesia (GA) is one of the common treatment methods today for dental treatment in children, so dentists’ point of view in this field is very important. Therefore, the purpose of this study was evaluation the awareness and attitude of pediatric dentists and final-year dental students about dental treatment for children under GA. Methods: To conduct this study, 150 people, including 75 general dentists (GD) and 75 final-year dental students (FYDS), were randomly selected in Tehran. In this study, a researcher-made questionnaire containing 15 questions (7 awareness questions and 8 attitude questions) was used to evaluate the awareness and attitude of the participants. After extracting the raw results, statistical analysis of the results was done using SPSS-Ver. 22 software. Results: 60% of the participants (90 people) were men and the remaining 40% (60 people) were women. The results showed that the level of awareness of male dentists was significantly higher than that of female dentists (P = 0.015). In addition, although the awareness level of FYDS was lower than GD, this difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.130). The average level of awareness among different age groups had a significant difference (P = 0.009), so the age group of 36-45 years compared to the younger age groups (25-35 years) and the older age groups (36-45 and 55 -46 years), had a higher level of awareness. Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that it is necessary to use appropriate educational methods to improve the level of awareness and attitude of children’s dentists.