A type of photothermal biocompatible organic nanoparticles with a high PCE (40.6%) was developed and investigated, followed by the achievement significantly more effective phototheranostic dental hypersensitivity treatment combined laser.

BACKGROUND The current investigation examined the determinants of oral health experiences associated with dentine hypersensitivity using prospective diary methodology. METHODS Staff and students from a large UK university who had self-diagnosed dentine hypersensitivity completed an online daily diary and text survey for 2 weeks recording their mood, oral health-related coping behaviours, copi...

BACKGROUND Dentine hypersensitivity (DH) affects people's quality of life (QoL). However changes in the internal meaning of QoL, known as Response shift (RS) may undermine longitudinal assessment of QoL. This study aimed to describe patterns of RS in people with DH using Classification and Regression Trees (CRT) and to explore the convergent validity of CRT with the then-test and ideals approac...

CONTEXT The gold standard treatment modality for dentine hypersensitivity has not yet been established. This review examines the effectiveness of self and professionally applied treatments for the reduction in pain from dentine hypersensitivity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Electronic (three databases) and hand searches were performed 14-21 July 2014 to identify randomized controlled trials for the ...

Objectives. The aim of the present paper was to review the published literature in order to identify all relevant studies for inclusion and to determine whether there was any evidence of the efficacy of strontium and potassium toothpastes in the treatment of dentine hypersensitivity (DH). Methods. Following a review of 94 relevant papers both from searching electronic databases (PUBMED) and han...

UNLABELLED Dentine hypersensitivity is a common clinical finding with a wide variation in prevalence values and etiological factors. The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the prevalence and some etiological factors of dentine hypersensitivity of Emirati patients visiting general dental clinics in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over a period of three calendar months. M...