Litao Sun, Yongming Tang, Wei Zuo
Atanu Kumar Das, Md. Nazrul Islam, Md Morsaline Billah, A.K. Sarker
Healthcare waste comprises the waste generated by healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and biomedical research facilities. Improper treatment of this waste poses serious risks of disease transmission to waste pickers, waste workers, health workers, patients, and the community in general throu...
Md Saiful Islam, Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Yanni Sun, Mohammed Owais Qureshi et al.
OBJECTIVE: In the current absence of a vaccine for COVID-19, public health responses aim to break the chain of infection by focusing on the mode of transmission. We reviewed the current evidence on the transmission dynamics and on pathogenic and clinical features of COVID-19 to critically identify a...
Anas Tahir, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury, Amith Khandakar, Tawsifur Rahman et al.
The immense spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has left healthcare systems incapable to diagnose and test patients at the required rate. Given the effects of COVID-19 on pulmonary tissues, chest radiographic imaging has become a necessity for screening and monitoring the disease. Numerous...
Daniele Angerame, Matteo De Biasi, Martina Agostinetto, Andrea Franzò et al.
Abstract Objectives To evaluate the fracture resistance and marginal quality of maxillary molars restored using lithium disilicate glass‐ceramic (LDG) occlusal veneers with two preparation designs. Methods Sixteen extracted maxillary molars were assigned to two groups (n = 8). In group 1 (G1), the t...
Tamal Chowdhury, Hemal Chowdhury, Salman Rahman, Nazia Hossain et al.
COVID-19 pandemic-borne wastes imposed a severe threat to human lives as well as the total environment. Improper handling of these wastes increases the possibility of future transmission. Therefore, immediate actions are required from both local and international authorities to mitigate the amount o...
Sidra Fahim, Afsheen Maqsood, Gotam Das, Naseer Ahmed et al.
Many modern advancements have taken place in dentistry that have exponentially impacted the progress and practice of dentistry. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are becoming the trend in the practice of modern dentistry because of their impact on changing the patient’s experience. The...
Md Zillur Rahman, Md Enamul Hoque, Md. Rubel Alam, Abdur Rouf et al.
Increasingly prevalent respiratory infectious diseases (e.g., COVID-19) have posed severe threats to public health. Viruses including coronavirus, influenza, and so on can cause respiratory infections. A pandemic may potentially emerge owing to the worldwide spread of the virus through persistent hu...
Mashura Shammi, Arvind Behal, Shafi M. Tareq
The global pandemic COVID-19 culminated in escalating biomedical waste (BMW) worldwide, and the management authorities are struggling with waste treatment. Bangladesh and India are two densely populated South Asian developing countries with limited resources. Both countries face mass community trans...
B. Curtis, RW Evans, Alexandra Sbaraini, Eli Schwarz
BACKGROUND: The recently published National Survey of Adult Oral Health 2004-06 indicated that tooth loss, mean decayed and number of DMF teeth were all higher outside capital city locations. In addition, dental attendance patterns were worse in terms of frequency, reason for visit, and continuity i...
Michaelina Macluskey, Justin Durham, Adam Bell, J. G. Cowpe et al.
BACKGROUND: A national survey was undertaken to establish a baseline of our final year students' perception of how their undergraduate oral surgery education has equipped them for key areas of general dental practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Questionnaires were distributed to the 13 UK schools with f...
Li Luo, Xiaohua Cheng, Shiyuan Wang, Junxue Zhang et al.
BACKGROUND: Blended learning that combines a modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) with face-to-face teaching was applied to a medical statistics course to improve learning outcomes and evaluate the impact factors of students' knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) relating...
Jan Cosyn, Mehran Moradi Sabzevar
BACKGROUND: Since scaling and root planing are not always successful, predominantly when access to periodontal defects is compromised, various antimicrobial agents as adjuncts have been suggested to enhance their efficacy. Gel vehicles delivering chlorhexidine (CHX) have become available and tested ...
Sanchita Kar, Popy Devnath, Talha Bin Emran, Trina Ekawati Tallei et al.
BACKGROUND: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a deadly pandemic in the 21st century, resulting in many deaths, economic loss, and international immobility. Vaccination represents the only mechanism to defeat this virus. Several intramuscular vaccines have be...
Saanjaana Rahman, Sajid Amit, Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Telehealth allows healthcare workers to see patients virtually in locations that were not accessible previously, which has reduced cost and time and saved lives. The research aims to examine gender disparity among telehealth usage during the pandemic in 2020. This study will lev...