Pyogenic granuloma is a benign vascular tumour of the oral mucosa that follows chronic irritation such as trauma, microorganisms, plaque, calculus etc. It involves the gingiva most frequently. The tumour can also mimic like other vascular lesions, solid tumours, and soft tissue infections.

A typical single gingival overgrowth known as a peripheral ossifying fibroma is hypothesised to develop from the gingival corium, periosteum, or periodontal ligament. The cranial bones are where osseous fibromas are most likely to develop, however the peripheral kind exhibits a close association with the periodontal ligament and nearby alveolar bone. It typically occurs in young girls and women (predilection of 3:1). In this study, a female presentation is described, along with a methodical approach to identifying and treating peripheral ossifying fibroma.

Introduction: Social media became an influential tool that affects people’s way of communication and became a significant source of information for the society. The study aimed to evaluate the impact of social media on patients seeking aesthetic dental treatment.

Materials and methods: The study employed a large-scale online survey of 1940 patients attending and/or seeking dental treatment at Rama dental college and private clinics of Kanpur city. The targeted age of participants ranged from 18 years and above. The study data were collected using a three-part questionnaire.

Results: More than half of the patients were females in both groups (52.7%). The majority of patients used social media for communication and entertainment purposes. It was also found that the most popular platform used by patients was Snapchat (71.1%), followed by Instagram (66.9%). A lot of patients did not like their teeth appearance (38.5%). Moreover, patients preferred to have “bleaching” as an aesthetic treatment to improve their smiles (63.8%).

Conclusion: The impact of social media can be considered as high. Patients are influenced by social media applications and are seeking aesthetic treatment as an outcome. It is the responsibility of dentists to educate patients about the best treatment options.

Aim: To assess the effect of honey on healing of oral recurrent aphthous ulcers.

Materials and Methods: 100 patients (50 male 50 female) with minor oral ulcers (2–5 mm) were attended to consultant in the O.P.D. of Rama dental College hospital & research center Kanpur,demanding a treatment for their painful ulcers were treated by either kenalog in orabase (Triamcinolon acetonide 0.1% in oral paste 5g) or the application of honey dressing.

Results: The ulcerations have almost completely disappeared after 3 days treatment by honey dressing.

Conclusions: Honey has an obvious influence on the rate of healing process of the oral ulcers.

Soft tissues of the oral cavity are often affected by various mucocutaneous disorders of variable etiology, affecting both the skin and mucosae, with severe clinical manifestations such as blisters involving the tissues; and therefore, their appropriate management relies on their correct diagnosis. Clinical signs to elicit characteristics of blisters are a crucial part of the examination of patients with such disorders. It is therefore essential for clinicians to be familiar with, or rather be expert at eliciting these signs to frame an accurate diagnosis, since proper treatment and follow up will depend on which disease is involved. The Nikolsky’s sign is one such sign that can be helpful in the clinical diagnosis of pemphigus group of disease and differentiating it from other blistering dermatoses. This review gives an overview of sign of Nikolsky and other related sign, its clinical presentation and their diagnostic implications, using PubMed and Medline databases searching for articles written in English. Peer reviewed articles were targeted using the keywords “Nikolsky’s sign”, “mucocutaneous disorders” and “pemphigus”. Available full text articles were read, and related articles were also scrutinized and finally the search was subsequently refined to articles concerning to “Nikolsky’s sign”. It was concluded that early recognition of these signs is necessary to prevent delayed diagnosis and for early institution of appropriate treatment of these potentially serious mucosal and dermatological diseases.