You are a dentist employed at a group practice. The practice also has an Oral Medicine specialist and a Prosthodontist. A 65-year-old woman visits the practice complaining about ‘sores’ on the sides of her mouth.Dental History: She has misplaced her dentures about 6 months ago (and has been struggling to eat ever since).Which of the following is not a predisposing factor that may lead to the development of this condition

Pernicious anemia is caused by defective absorption of:

On clinical examination, a 44 year old patient presents with Nail kolionychia (i.e. the central portion of the nail is depressed). This feature is indicative of:

Which of the following is the most common site for the melanotic macule?

Which cranial nerve is affected by Bell palsy?

 A 68-year-old female patient visits your practice complaining of a painful posterior tooth that she wants to have extracted. Upon taking her medical history, she reveals that she recently underwent surgery for a fractured hip, and is currently taking warfarin (and has been on it for the last 3 months). She is unsure of the dose.What would be considered a safe INR value should you decide to extract the painful tooth ?

“We Real Cool” The Pool Players, Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. The speaker suggests that the Pool Players  

“Thus she had lain/sugar cane sweet/deserts her hair/golden her feet/mountains her breasts/two Niles her tears.” These lines from Maya Angelou’s poem “Africa” represent an example of

Often the young people go home in tears, or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and faced this terrible paradox. They may brood over it for weeks or years. But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no doubt, but little more. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy. It has been afraid too long ever to be free of fear. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment. Indeed, after so long it would probably be wretched without walls about it to protect it, and darkness for its eyes, and its own excrement to sit in.   from “The Ones Who Walk Way from Omelas” In the story, LeGuin draws attention to 

“Song: To Lucasta…” Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,          That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind          To war and arms I fly. True: a new mistress now I chase,          The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace          A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such          As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much,          Lov’d I not Honour more. The speaker of this poem has decided to leave his companion because