Although the newer therapies offer advantage over steroids for the management of OLP in recalcitrant cases, extensive lesions, and cases unresponsive to steroids, but sufficient clinical data on their use are still lacking. Hence, more RCTs with large sample size, adequate treatment duration, and long-term follow-up are required for clinical utility.

Statistically significant improvement in clinical findings was observed in both curcumin and lycopene treatment groups in comparison with placebo. However, the therapeutic efficacy of curcumin and lycopene was found to be almost equal in OSMF patients.

This study presents the outcome of a survey of patients satisfaction following day surgery and an assessment of the level of contact between patients and community services within the first 48 h after discharge from a day-surgery unit. A total of 953 patients were provided with a self-completion questionnaire after day surgery; replies were received from 557 (58.4 per cent). Areas investigated regarding overall satisfaction were outpatient services, admission procedure, day-surgery services, preoperative and postoperative information, and postoperative pain relief. The incidence of contact with the hospital or community services in the 48 h after operation was also recorded. Overall satisfaction following day surgery was very high. Only 2.5 per cent of respondents reported that they had needed to contact the hospital within 24 h of discharge. Contact with community services in the 48 h after operation was minimal. Only 4.3 per cent consulted their general practitioner and 1.4 per cent a district nurse. For the small number of patients who did contact the hospital or their general practitioner, the most frequent reason was a problem with pain management.

Objectives: This study analyzed changes in the antegonial region in relation to age, gender, and dental status. Study design: A total of one thousand patients (five hundred males and five hundred females), who were prescribed panoramic radiograph for various purposes were included in the study. The patients were categorized according to age, gender and dentition status. Panoramic radiographs were traced and antegonial angles and depths were measured. Results: A trend of decrease in the antegonial angle and increase in antegonial depth with age was observed in both males and females. Furthermore there were differences between right and left side antegonial angle and depth, with left side angle more than right and right side depth more than left. There was a significant decrease in the values of antegonial angle and significant increase in the values of antegonial depth as the dentition status changed from completely dentulous to partially dentulous and from partially dentulous to completely edentulous state. Conclusions: The antegonial angle decreases with the advancing age and thereby increases the antegonial depth. Similar trends are seen when teeth are lost. Furthermore there is an inherent asymmetry in the antegonial region in right and left side.

Multiple myeloma is the prototype of malignant monoclonal gammopathies. The most common skeletal sites are pelvis, skull, spine, ribs and femoral and humeral shafts. The classic radiographic presentation of multiple myeloma is lytic skeletal lesions. Other types of presentation include sclerotic and porotic changes. Primary sclerotic manifestations are rare and occur in only 3% of cases. Although exceptional, multiple myeloma must be borne in mind in the presence of bone sclerosis. This report presents a patient with multiple myeloma with a sunburst/hair-on-end pattern on the radiograph and sclerotic skeletal lesions.