Custom-made different designs of pressure clips for the management of ear lobe keloids

Introduction : Keloids are frequent finding after physical trauma. Keloids of ear lobe are common complication of ear piercing, although its incidence remains unknown. The use of intrakeloid resection and a form pressure device to treat pinna keloids. The recommendation of this therapy is to maintain constant pressure and duration of pressure therapy was about 25 weeks. Clinical innovation : This article will present inexpensive custom made pressure clips of various designs. The dimensions of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) plates in ear lobe clip presented by us though they esthetically not so good, but colored PMMA has been used to make it decorative and acceptable by most of the patients. This has been an encouraging experience to use the different designs. Discussion : Ear clip prosthesis has been developed for maintaining pressure on ear lobe keloids before and after surgical removal. The prosthesis includes an ear clip to which heat-polymerized acrylic resin is attached, which covers the keloid area. Pressure therapy is widely used to help in the early maturation of scar tissue and to prevent the recurrence of keloid. The preliminary report by Brent revealed that constant light pressure was an effective means of preventing post excision recurrence of ear lobe keloids using a decorative, spring-pressure earring

Iron in Oral Health and Disease

Certain essential elements are required by the metabolically active cells and tissues for the maintenance of health of human body. Iron is one of the essential elements for life and is needed for a number of highly complex processes that continuously take place at molecular level and that are indispensable to human life. It is necessary for oxygen transport, electron transport, cellular differentiation, and functioning of many enzymes. Concentration of iron in body tissues must be tightly regulated because excessive iron leads to tissue damage whereas iron deficiency encompasses a broad spectrum of diseases with diverse clinical manifestations. Iron levels affect the integrity of oral mucosa alongwith the development and progression of many oral lesions. Also, iron levels could act as a prognostic indicator for many oral lesions