Author: Isreal Olabanji DST, RN

Isreal Olabanji is a certified Dental Nurse in Nigeria with experience in oral health education, public health, dental instruments, and patient care. He writes evidence-based dental and oral health content for readers in Nigeria, the United States, and beyond, making expert oral care guidance accessible no matter where you're reading from. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, or LinkedIn.

What does pinworm mean?    A pinworm infection is one of the most common types of human intestinal. Pinworms are tiny, narrow worms. They’re white in color and less than half an inch long. The male of this species measures only 2 to 4 mm.in length while the female measures 8 to 12mm.in length. A pinworm infection, also known as enterobiasis or oxyuriasis, is the most common type of worm infection in humans in the United States according to the center of disease control and prevention Source: ” Basem Bin Omer Bin Ali ” – under creative commons license   Who…

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Sleep Apnea is a sleep disorder in which the diagnosed person has one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breath during sleep but there is a way to cure it without needing CPAP. The duration of the pauses of a person with this sleep disorder could be a few seconds to a few minutes or more. It is quite possible to have 30 such pauses within an hour. Normal breathing starts again with a loud snort or a choking sound. This kind of sleep disorder occurs when a person switches from deep sleep into light sleep. This makes…

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Mandibular hypoplasia is a frequently encountered craniofacial difference and can be classified into three groups: congenital, developmental, and acquired. There have been numerous publications on patients with syndromic congenital mandibular hypoplasia; however, there has been no investigation and differentiation of the “non-syndromic” patients. What’s Mandibular hypoplasia? The word mandibular means lower jawline or jaw bone and hypoplasia mean undergrowth or incomplete growth. So as the name implies, it is an incomplete development or growth of the lower jaw. Mandibular hypoplasia closely similar to micrognathia in which the lower jaw is undersized or micrognathia similar to mandibular hypoplasia but another term…

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Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD),  also known as Restless Genital Syndrome (ReGS or RGS), results in a spontaneous and persistent genital arousal, with or without orgasm or genital engorgement, unrelated to any feelings of sexual desire. Some physicians use the term Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome to refer to the condition in women; others consider the syndrome of priapism in men to be the same disorder. In addition to being very rare, the condition is also frequently unreported by sufferers who may consider it shameful or embarrassing. Physical arousal caused by this syndrome can be very intense and persist for extended…

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Preventive Child Dental Care Many oral health diseases start in childhood, including malocclusion, dental caries, fluorosis, and much more. It can be prevented through regular preventive dental care and counseling. Despite the drop in the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children from approximately 75 percent in the 1970s to 37 percent in 2011 to 2012, caries continues to be one of the most common recurring oral diseases.    An entry from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention imply that tooth decay in primary teeth of children aged two to five years has fluctuated since the 1980s but has…

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