Mucormycosis is a fungal infection found in the covid-19 patients with uncontrolled blood sugar level or prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stay or prolonged steroid medication and reduces their ability to fight environment pathogens. On inhalation of fungal spores, it mostly affects lungs or sinuses. If left untreated it may turn fatal as well.

Aim: The study investigates the relationship between BMI and dental caries status in children aged 3 to 16 years old in Guntur (Urban).
Background: Obesity is a rising global health epidemic. Dental caries have been the predominant disorder in modern society. Obesity and dental caries are major health problems with multifactorial characteristics and similar risk factors, such as diet. Various studies have documented diverse outcomes linked to BMI and dental caries.
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was implemented on 756 participants. The DMFT index has been used to assess the prevalence of dental caries. Information on the study participants’ height and weight was reported using a standardized measuring scale and weighing machine; after that, the BMI was measured. SPSS version22 was used to analyze the data.
Results: Among the study participants, 475 (62.8%) were boys, and 281 (37.2%) were girls. The mean DMFT of the study participants in normal-weight children was 2.3. There was a positive correlation between the status of BMI and dental caries. This was significant of value 0.27.
Conclusion: Diet counselling and regular dental check-ups should be prescribed to prevent dental caries from occurring and monitor children’s healthy weight. Balanced nutrition needs to be provided to children by school authorities and parents.
Keywords:Body Mass Index; DMFT; School Children

COVID-19 has created a devastating scenario across the globe being the major infectious disease prevailing since 2020 till date. Acute infection due to severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can appear in varied spectrum of illness, alternating from asymptomatic state to critical life threatening condition. Post-acute covid-19 is thought to be a multisystem disease usually occurring after a comparatively mild illness. Patients mostly complain of fatigue and dyspnea, while others include joint and chest pain after acute COVID-19. Apart from these, specific organ related symptoms principally concerning the heart, lungs, and brain have also been accounted for. Researchers are of the belief that patients who recover from acute SARS-CoV-2 infection will present with certain sequelae in the long run, due to obstinate symptoms, sustained organ dysfunction or possibly due to new syndromes. However, the full gamut of the nature, duration, gravity and severity of post-acute COVID-19 is presently unfamiliar and research is still going on. It is thus clear that the overall incidence of post-acute COVID-19 symptoms and its effect on organ dysfunction remains a matter of concern to the researchers. Further studies are essential and indispensable for proper understanding of postacute COVID-19 so as to facilitate multidisciplinary methodology to diagnose and treat this unrelated condition.
Keywords:Post-Acute COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; ACE2 Receptor