Anosmia, or the inability to detect scents, can have serious psychological consequences, including feelings of physical and social vulnerability and victimization. Anosmia can occur because of nasal obstruction caused by nasal polypi, enlarged turbinates, or oedema of mucous memb...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34879
Background: Menstruation is seldom regarded as an act of immense kindness put forward by a woman to ensure the human race doesn’t cease but ironically, it is now too in this so called modernized world is considered a dirty, unclean, shameful, taboo linking it with the so called t...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34881
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious virus that emerged on January 29, 2020, as a result of a brand new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-31), which the World Health Organization discovered on January 29: and the COVID-...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34883
One of the global health issues is Oral cancer, which has an increased death rate. Awareness of oral cancer screening is important for oral health care professionals for early detection and improving the patients' survival rate. Attitude towards oral cancer awareness and knowledg...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i58A34157
Background: Diabetes mellitus, one of the common serious conditions among the elderly and depression is frequent finding as a Comorbidity. Polypharmacy is common in diabetes and In diabetic senior people, it has been linked to depression. Polypharmacy, especially among the elderl...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34851
Mast cell (MCs) is considered the immune cell of myeloid lineage and make a crucial role in the inflammatory process in several types of oral diseases. This mast cell contains 50–200 large granules which are inflammatory mediators, including rich in histamine and heparin. It is m...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34888
Background: POSSUM Score is used to assess the outcome of complication, surgical intervention and the proportion between predicted and observed morbidity and mortality.Such scoring systems have been especially designed to compare patient’s severity of illness, predict mortality,...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34856
Aim: To determine the frequency of complementary feeding, top feeding and exclusive breast feeding among infants at tertiary care unit Study Design: Retrospective cross sectional study Place and Duration: Pediatric Out Patient Department (OPD) of Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore fro...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34844
The superficial surface of the body called as skin has its main function as tactile reception, on stimulation of the emotional background there might be a presence of certain type of psychosomatic reactions that tend to cause dermatological changes, this in turn brings about the...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34894
Aim: To evaluate gingival recession among the patients wearing fixed braces visiting dental college of Larkana. Study Design: Descriptive Cross-Sectional Place and Duration of Study: Department of Orthodontics, Bibi Aseefa Dental College (BADC) Larkana December 2018 to February 2...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34848
Background: Diabetes has a multitude of macrovascular complications, one of them being Carotid artery Atherosclerosis leading to stenosis and predisposing patient to Stroke. A hypothesis put forward is the presence of low-grade inflammation in Diabetic patients, which may enhance...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34850
Purpose: Breast cancer in women is one of the most common tumors in women worldwide. Throughout Pakistan, there have been multiple reasons that cause a delay in the presentation of breast cancer and many reasons are neither reported nor studied. The objective of our study is to p...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34853
Background: Environmental pollution is a serious threat to living beings and global warming. Indoor pollution also comes under environmental pollution. One of the sustainable but underexploited solutions is the indoor plants which are of much significance and importance. The indo...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34855
Background: Commonly used dental resin composites are used as dental filling materials with the help of light induced polymerization reaction. The purpose of this cross-sectional research was to compare the results of different light intensities on the hardness of different denta...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34866
Uterine fibroids are also known as leiomyomas or myomas are muscular tumors that can form on the uterus. They seldom become malignant, and having them does not increase your risk of uterine cancer. Fibroids come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and locations. They can be found insi...
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Research Article10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i60B34862