EVALUATION OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF AVULSED TRAUMATIC DENTAL INJURIES IN CHILDREN AMONG GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONERS IN INDIA

Evaluation of knowledge regarding emergency management of avulsed traumatic dental injuries in children among general dental practitioners in India

Context: Traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) leading to dental avulsion occur very frequently in society.Management of avulsion is critical for the dentist, as it requires appropriate knowledge.Aim: The study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge of the general dental practitioners (GDPs) regarding the emergency management of TDI leading to avulsion

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An Upper Cretaceous ichthyodectiform fish from Kyushu, Japan

Ichthyodectiform fishes are an exclusively extinct basal teleost clade, with a temporal range from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).The fish fossils here described were found from Maeshima islet in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan in an outcrop of the Hinoshima Formation of the Lower Subgroup of the Himenoura Group.Althoug

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A Journey of Change in a Comprehensive At-risk High School

It all started with 7th grade reading WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning, used to meet state and federal testing requirements) scores.We had just finished the annual staff meeting of humiliation in which yet another year of the results of our non-progress on the annual state assessments in reading, writing and math had been presented t

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