Management of Chronic Gingivitis with localized periodontitis by Nonsurgical (Phase I) Periodontal Therapy- A Case Report

Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the periodontal tissues (periodontium) which surround and support the teeth, that results in attachment loss and alveolar bone destruction leads to ultimate tooth loss.It is caused by the bacteria present in dental plaque, which is a tenacious substance that forms on teeth and gingiva just after te

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Classification Model of Clock Drawing Test Based on Contrastive Learning Using Multi-Channel Features With Channel-Spatial Attention

The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a professional examination that can detect cognitive impairments, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, based on scoring criteria.The pooling layers of a convolutional neural network (CNN) compress features by reducing dimensionality, which tends to focus on a single dominant element.This can be

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Early age at first childbirth and skilled birth attendance during delivery among young women in sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract Background Despite the numerous policy interventions targeted at preventing early age at first childbirth globally, the prevalence Play Basket of adolescent childbirth remains high.Meanwhile, skilled birth attendance is considered essential in preventing childbirth-related complications and deaths among adolescent mothers.Therefore, we est

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Support practices by an interdisciplinary team in a palliative-care unit for relatives of patients in agonal phase

Abstract Background In the absence of extant recommendations, the aim of this study was to formalise support practices used by an interdisciplinary team in a palliative-care unit (PCU) for the relatives of patients in the agonal phase preceding death.The secondary objective was to understand the expectations of relatives during this phase in terms

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