CONTEXT Dental caries is a disease of multifactorial etiology. A variety of potential predictors have been examined for the association with caries increments in longitudinal and cross-sectional studies. AIMS The aim of this study was to assess the possible relationship among salivary cariogenic microflora, buffer capacity, secretion rate, and caries experience among 6-year-old school-going c...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of a North Carolina Medicaid preventive dentistry program in primary care medical offices (Into the Mouths of Babes Program [IMBP]) on decayed, missing, and filled teeth (dmft) of kindergarten students statewide and in schools with a large proportion of students from low-income families. METHODS An ecologic study using panel data of 920,505 kindergarten stude...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization identifies oral health as a necessity for public health through the entirety of life. This issue has been considerably addressed due to susceptibility to tooth decay during pregnancy and maternal and fetal health. OBJECTIVES Investigate the effect of educational intervention on perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, and DMFT of pregnant women. PATI...

relationship between sweetness preference and dental caries in mother child pairs dr. a. pakdel* - eng. n. valaei** - dr. n. mirzabeygi*** *- assistant professor of pedodontics dept. - faculty of dentistry – tehran islamic azad university. **- the member of islamic azad university. ***- dentist. background and aim: considering the existing concern on increasing caries and the importance of swee...

Background/Aim: The objective of this research was to evaluate the level oral hygiene, prevalence caries, and condition soft tissues in children adolescents referred for their first orthodontic examination. Material Methods: conducted at Department Orthodontics Sarajevo University - Faculty Dentistry with Dental Clinical Center. A total 300 patients mixed permanent dentition who were examinatio...

The authors study here electrical conductivity in the Hubbard model on a square lattice perpendicular magnetic field. They present formalism full detail, and perform extensive dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) calculations to scan phase diagram. show that vertex corrections cancel within DMFT, reliable results can be obtained even from zero-field self-energy. dc exhibits Shubnikov--de Haas qua...