Shorea robusta Gaertn. f. (Sal) forests cover over 11 million ha in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.These forests are conventionally managed for timber. Recently, interest in producing multiple products from sal forests has increased....

Patient compliance, anchorage preservation and lack of anchor units often present a perplexing problem for orthodontics, mainly because of a lack of effective devices. Headgear, which is used to control anchorage and requires patient cooperation, is a device that has been used in orthodontics for at least 100 years....