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Background: Surgical extraction of the impacted mandibular third molar is associated with intraoperative and postoperative complications, subsequently affecting the patient's wellbeing and reducing the quality of life especially in the week following surgery. Quality of life records are better outcome parameters than clinical variables because it assesses multiple aspects of life. The wound closure technique is an operative factor reported to affect the severity of postoperative complications. If these affectation would translate into any difference in the overall quality of life is yet to be studied. Therefore, there was need to compare the quality of life of two widely varied techniques - the complete closure and the non-closure (sutureless). This wa Methods: s a prospective, randomised clinical study carried out at the Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery department of a tertiary hospital from December 2019 to November 2020. Seventy-four participants were randomized into a complete closure group and a sutureless technique group. They were subjected to the procedure under similar conditions and thereafter followed up for 1 week to assess the changes in their quality of life using the modied OHIP-14 questionnaire. Variables were recorded and analysed using the SPSS (v 25.0). The critical level of signicance was set at P

Background: Data regarding the features and outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Africa are increasingly available. Objectives: To describe socio-demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 86 adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 between March and November 2020. Characteristics were described in survivors and non-survivors. Results: Mean age was 60.9±16.1 years, 53(61.6%) were male. Co-morbidities were found in 77(89.5%) patients. On severity, 6(7%) were mild, 23(26.7%) moderate, 51(59.3%) severe and 6(7%) critical. Oxygen saturation and respiratory rate were 71±22% and 38±11/minute in non-survivors and 90±7% and 31±7/minute in survivors respectively (p