Background: This study was carried out to assess the gender based inequality and use of oral health care services.

Material and Methods: A cross sectional study was undertaken among 15 teaching dental institute in Bangalore city. 1652 subjects were selected for the study and representative sample was drawn using a two stage random sampling technique. 200 females aged between 15 years and above were selected from each representative teaching dental hospital. Equal numbers of males belonging to same age group were selected for comparison. Interview was conducted and the information was collected on a Performa. Statistical analysis was done using SPSS version 19. Chi-square test and student test were used to detect difference.

Result: It was found that overall utilization of oral health care services was worse among females. More women perceived there oral health as poor, overall treatment needs in term of dental caries, periodontal health and prosthetic status was more for both genders. However, the required treatment needs were worst for females. There was a significant gender gap among females perception of gender inequality in use of oral health care both at home and at hospital. There was association between the perception of inequality and oral health care utilization and oral health outcome

Conclusion: The lower utilization of services, coupled with lack of importance and awareness regarding the oral health and the increasing burden of dental diseases especially among females can put this population under higher risk. Hence there is an urgent requirement for strategies to address the issues.

Background and objectives: Malnutrition and dental caries is major public health problem in India among the children. The objective of this study was to find association between nutritional status and dental health among school children attending outreach program.

Material and methods: This is retrospective observational study. This study was conducted among the school children aged 5-15 years who attending outreach program conducted by M.R.Ambedkar dental college and hospital from the year 2010 to 2018. A total of 1231 participants were included in this study. The dental caries was measured based on the WHO diagnostic criteria for caries. Age and height measurement was also recorded for the children. The nutritional status was measured using the Gomez’s classification for under weight, Waterlow’s classification for stunting and wasting. Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS version 24.

Result: A total of 1231 participants were there of which female-628, male-603, and were in the age group 5-10years-813, 11-15years-418. Prevalence of dental caries was 67.2%, prevalence of underweight, wasting and stunting is 46.8%, 15.1% and 32.9% respectively. Significant association was found between dental caries and stunting, dental caries and wasting. No association was found between dental caries and underweight. Mean number of dental caries was found to be significantly associated with underweight, wasting and stunting.

Conclusion: There was high prevalence of dental caries and malnutrition among the school children attending the outreach program. Outreach programs can be used as an effective measure to provide education regarding health, providing treatment in the area inaccessible to the health services.

Nanocurcumin possesses diverse pharmacological effects, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiangiogenic activities, etc. The objective of the experiment was to investigate the impact of the Trivedi Effect®-Consciousness Energy Healing Treatment on the isotopic abundance ratios along with the structural properties of nanocurcumin using sophisticated spectroscopy techniques. Nanocurcumin powder was divided into two parts – one part of the sample was termed as control, while the other part was received the Trivedi Effect®-Consciousness Energy Healing Treatment by a famous Biofield Energy Healer, Mr. Mahendra Kumar Trivedi and termed as treated sample. The LC-ESI-MS analysis of both the control and treated nanocurcumin exhibited the protonated molecular ion mass at m/z 369 (calcd for C21 H21 O6 +, 369.13) at retention time (Rt ) 18.98 minutes along with similar fragmentation pattern. However, the relative peak intensities of the fragmented ion peaks of the treated nanocurcumin were significantly altered compared to the control sample. The isotopic abundance ratio of PM+1 /PM (2H/1H or 13C/12C or 17O/16O) was significantly increased by 76.54% in the treated nanocurcumin compared to the control sample. Therefore, the 13C, 2H, and 17O contributions from C21 H21 O6 + to m/z 370 in the treated sample was significantly increased compared to the control sample. On the contrary, the isotopic abundance ratio of PM+2 /PM (18O/16O) in the treated sample was significantly decreased by 28.39% compared to the control sample. Therefore, the 18O contribution from C21 H21 O6 + to m/z 371 in the treated nanocurcumin was significantly decreased compared with the control sample. The GC-MS analysis showed that the chromatographic peak area% was significantly increased by 31.49% in the treated nanocurcumin compared to the control sample at Rt 10.68 minutes. The fragmented mass peak intensity of the treated sample at m/z 177 (C10 H9 O3 +) and 192 (C11 H12 O3 •+) were significantly increased by 37.60% and 42.84%, respectively compared to the control sample. The proton and carbon signals for CH, CH2 , OH, CO, COH, and OCH3 groups in the 1H and 13C NMR spectra of the treated and control samples were almost similar. The Trivedi Effect®-Consciousness Energy Healing Treatment might provide the necessary energy for the neutrino oscillations in nanocurcumin leads to the altered isotopic abundance ratio and improved solubility profile. Thus, the Biofield Energy Treated nanocurcumin would be more efficacious nutraceutical/pharmaceutical formulations for the treatment of inflammation, cancer, rheumatism, hyperglycemia, myocardial infarction, etc.