Leprosy sequelae patients surmount the inconvenience by the handicap.
  When people with the handicap are able to do the same act as healthy people, we may not pay attention to the originality and creativity for it. Therefore, we are not able to notice some risks which are hidden.
  We turned our attention to the denture in the oral region.
  The methods of putting in and taking out the denture of leprosy sequelae patients are characteristic. Even a partial denture, there are many patients who take out their denture using only their tongue, without touching a clasp with a finger. And they put in the denture by biting. But we had never not announced the details of their methods. So, we investigated how to handle their denture in National Sanatorium Nagashima Aiseien. We explain their methods and show the results.
  On the other hand, there are a lot of cases of the denture breakage in National Sanatorium Nagashima Aiseien. We think most of these matters occur due to their handicaps. We researched on the cases with dentures broken. In addition, we also describe our countermeasure.

  Due to aging and aftereffects of leprosy, many of them are now struggling with hearing loss and visual impairment. The purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze the present situation of hearing level and hearing aid among residents in leprosy sanatorium.
  We have been carrying out hearing screening for the all ex-patients in three national sanatoriums, Nagashima-Aisei-en (since 2011), Oku-Komyo-en (since 2012), and Matsuoka-Hoyo-en (since 2014). The results of audiometry and questionnaire in 2014 were analyzed.
  Eligible persons who took pure tone audiometry were 198, and their age ranged between 59 and 99, mean 82.95. Their average hearing level of better hearing ear was 39.3±17.2dB. Since this result is not different from previous reports, which mentioned about average hearing level in elder persons, history of leprosy may not affect with hearing.
  According to the questionnaire, not only hearing level but also the awareness of hearing disability may lead to need for hearing aid. Also, it was considered that each communicative condition in sanatorium could have effect on self-assessment of hearing disability.

  Biologics are relatively new drugs developed through modern monoclonal antibody techniques and became more familiar to some disease treatments such as Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, ulcerative colitis, malignant lymphoma, SLE and lupus nephritis. Some case reports shows development of leprosy during/after biologics treatment and success treatment of ENL with biologics.
  Collection of reports was done through web search by using document retrieval engine such as Pub-med and ProQuest. 7 cases of development of leprosy with biologics and 2 cases of ENL treatment with biologics and they were reported in the mini-symposium of Annual academic meeting of Japan Leprosy association. The widespread use of biologics reminds us of development of some infectious diseases as a side-effect and leprosy might be one of them. Because number of the reports was still very limited, we cannot go to further discussion at this moment. Accumulation of reported cases will lead the detailed information about correlation between biologics and leprosy, either on effectiveness or on adverse ones.

Summary of the global leprosy situation (2013-2014) as reported by WHO in Weekly epidemiological records (WER No.36,2014,89,389-400) and (WER No.36,2015,90,461-476).