/library/oar/handle/123456789/38945 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:22:40 GMT 2025-11-11T20:22:40Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/701 Title: The prevalence of impacted permanent maxillary canines in Maltese school children : a pilot study Authors: Camilleri, Simon Abstract: The aetiology of ectopic canines is not clear. A number of causes have been put forward such as the long path of eruption of the maxillary canine, lack of guidance by the lateral incisor root, narrow arches, cystic enlargement of the dental follicle large arches, and familial tendency. In this article the author gives a detail report of the pilot study carried out on Maltese school children in various schools compared to school children of other countries. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/701 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/680 Title: A maternity unit in Gozo a hundred years ago Authors: Savona-Ventura, Charles Abstract: The present paper reviews the hospital confinements which occurred at Victoria Hospital in Gozo during the period 1876-1893. These hospital confinements are shown to have been generally restricted to needy women from the lower socio-economic strata. The lower socio-economic status of these mothers, together with the fact that these mothers were more likely to have significant medical and/or obstetric problems, resulted in higher perinatal and maternal mortality rates than those reported for the general population in Gozo and Malta. These observations are in conformity with the maternity care situation in European establishments. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/680 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/634 Title: Lithium : old & new uses in medicine Authors: Birch, Nicholas J.; Gallicchio, Vincent S. Abstract: Lithium has been used in psychiatry since 1949, and since the mid 1960s its use has escalated until it is estimated that about 500,000 patients receive it world-wide. During the last decade a new phase of interest in lithium has begun. Lithium is being used with beneficial effects as a treatment in other health related problems unrelated to psychiatry. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/634 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/606 Title: Clinical and financial consequences of setting up an asthma clinic at St. Luke’s Hospital Authors: Ebejer, Martin J.; Galea Baron, A.; Ellul-Micallef, Roger; Fenech, Frederick F. Abstract: The effects of setting up an asthma clinic were assessed in an audit study. A comparison was made between the quality and quantity of medication used by patients before and after attending the asthma clinic. The number and severity of exacerbations during a six month period before and a six month period after attending were also assessed. The cost of treatment before and after was also calculated. In 14% of patients, occupational factors, drugs or underlying lung disease were significant contributors to asthma. The number of acute episodes of severe asthma were reduced from 98 to 47, with hospital admissions falling from 26 to 1. Pulmonary function (%FEV1) improved in the group as a whole with the number of patients having their best FEV above 80% improving from 44 to 71. In spite of the expense of high cost drugs and the running costs of the clinic there were substantial savings largely from the reduced number of hospital admissions. The calculated annual cost fell from Lm 22,769 to Lm 10,654. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/606 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z