Malocclusion Tips

Baby Bottle Tooth Decay

Tooth decay in infants and toddlers is often referred to as Baby Bottle Tooth Decay, or Early Childhood Caries. Children need strong, healthy teeth to chew their food, speak and have a good-looking smile. Their first teeth also help make sure their adult teeth come in correctly. It s important to start infants off with good oral care to help protect their teeth for decades to come.

You can help prevent your baby from getting cavities or developing what ...more

Malocclusion of the teeth is a misalignment problem that can lead to serious oral health complications. It s also known as:

crowded teeth
crossbite
overbite
underbite
open bite
The teeth won t be able to perform vital functions if they re misaligned. Learn more about this issue and how it may be treated, to protect your overall oral and digestive health.

What Causes Malocclusion?
Malocclusion is usually an inherited condition. This means it can be passed...more

Thalassemia is a grave blood disorder. That is why people who have been diagnosed with it need to be extra careful with how they live their lives. The focus is on always making healthy lifestyle choices. This improves the quality of their lives, helps manage the disorder and will have a less detrimental impact on their lifespan.

Keep the illness under control - With proper care and intervention, thalassemia can be managed efficiently. To continue being healthy, thalassemia patients must...more

Thalassaemia is one of the most difficult hereditary diseases to live with. Even though there is no cure, parents can prevent their child from being born with this terrible disease if they are careful. Thalassemia is a blood illness. It is an inherited disorder. If even one parent is a carrier of thalassemia, the child will be born with this blood disorder. Our blood contains haemoglobin - a protein molecule. It carries oxygen to all parts of the body. But some people are born with an unnatural ...more

Thalassemia is a blood illness that destroys haemoglobin in the blood. Unless managed properly, thalassemia can be fatal. Keeping the disease under control involves not just blood transfusion, folate intake and chelation therapy but also diet. What the patients eat has an impact on how well their bodies will respond to treatment.

Diet for thalassemia patients
Thalassemia can trigger nutritional deficiency illnesses, haemolytic anaemia, diabetes and iron build-up (because of regular ...more

The bile duct is a thin tube which collects bile from the liver, stores it in the gall bladder and carries it to the intestine. Cancer of the bile duct is also known as cholangiocarcinoma. It can either involve the upper part or lower part of the bile duct and is called intrahepatic, hilar or distal cholangiocarcinoma.

Anything causing inflammation in the bile duct increases the risk of this cancer. Examples include

smoking.
choledochal cyst.
infection with liver flukes...more

Dark patches on the skin are a common cause for concern. These patches may not be very harmful but they can affect a person s self-confidence and emotional health. Patchiness is usually the result of excessive sun exposure. Hyperpigmentation is usually used as an umbrella term for all such skin conditions. However, not all dark patches are the same.

What is Hyperpigmentation?
Hyperpigmentation refers to the presence of dark patches of damaged skin triggered by external stressors. Of...more

A common skin condition, which causes the discoloration of your skin in patches across the face, melasma is more of a social embarrassment and cause for distress rather than being a serious condition. Although it affects men as well, studies have shown that over 90 percent of patients are women. It is also known as the mask of pregnancy as many pregnant women develop this skin condition.

Causes of Melasma:

Primary causes of melasma have been attributed to various hormonal chang...more

A common skin condition, which causes the discoloration of your skin in patches across the face, melasma is more of a social embarrassment and cause for distress rather than being a serious condition. Although it affects men as well, studies have shown that over 90 percent of patients are women. It is also known as the mask of pregnancy as many pregnant women develop this skin condition.

Causes of Melasma:

Primary causes of melasma have been attributed to various hormonal chang...more

Melasma is a skin condition resulting in discoloured and dark patches on the skin. It also goes by the name of chloasma. It is frequently observed in pregnant women. As per the report of the American Academy of Dermatology, it is found that 90 percent of the overall cases of Melasma are found among women.

What are the symptoms?

The main symptom of this skin condition is discolouration patches that are darker than the skin colour. Mostly visible in the face, Melasma occurs in a ...more

Melasma is a skin condition that is characterized by the formation of discolored patches on the skin. This condition is primarily observed in women. It usually occurs on the nose, cheeks and the forehead. Other parts of the body that might be continuously exposed to the sun for extended periods of time are also vulnerable to this disorder.

Symptoms:

Melasma exhibits symptoms of discolored patches on the skin. The patches are symmetrical, mostly forming on the face. Brownish pat...more

Thalassaemia is one of the most difficult hereditary diseases to live with. Even though there is no cure, parents can prevent their child from being born with this terrible disease if they are careful.

However, preventing the spread of disease in the world has proven difficult due to the lack of proper awareness about the condition. This is why the World Health Organization established May 8th as World Thalassaemia Day.

Importance of World Thalassaemia Day

8th May is d...more