OBJECTIVES To describe oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among New Zealand adults and assess the relationship between clinical measures of oral health status and a well-established OHRQoL measure, controlling for sex, socioeconomic status (SES) and use of dental services. METHODS A birth cohort of 924 dentate adults (participants in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Developm...

Background: The clinical and pathological evaluation of oral lesions are very important in this field. The purpose of this study was to assess clinico- pathological agreement on 232 cases with oral lesion s.Methods: The consecutive files of 232 patients with oral lesions from pathological laboratory archives of Babol Dental faculty and Shahid Beheshti Hospital were reviewed and the data include...

Urethral gonorrhoea (UG) dramatically decreased in Paris between 1986 and 1997 as a consequence of safer sexual behaviour. Thus, only 43 cases of gonorrhoea have been collected in our clinic in 1997, the lowest number since the early 1970s. Since 1998, an increase has been observed, as in other STD clinics in France and in the Renago laboratory network. 1–3 Men who have sex with men (MSMs) repr...

Oral cancer is a major public health issue in India with ∼ 77,000 new cases and 52,000 deaths yearly. Paan chewing, tobacco and alcohol use are strong risk factors for this cancer in India. Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are also related to a subset of head and neck cancers (HNCs). We examined the association between oral HPV and oral cancer in a sample of Indian subjects participating in a hosp...

BACKGROUND Oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with oral cancer development. However, few epidemiologic investigations have focused on oral HPV prevalence in healthy individuals. The objective of this study was to provide updated information regarding oral HPV prevalence in patients without oral cancer worldwide. METHODS We systematically reviewed 29 studies reporting the ...

results out of the 129 elderly participants, aged between 60-87 years (mean: 66.71 ± 6.21), males constituted 58.1% (n = 75) of patients and female were 41.9% (n = 54). normal variations of oral mucosa were observed in 62% (n = 80) of patients, while 44.2% (n = 57) had oral mucosal lesions. normal variations were significantly associated with smoking (or = 1.2), while denture wearers were at hi...

parents and teachers are critical stakeholders. Many would be uncomfortable allowing their children or students to participate in a survey that is so sexually explicit. It is worth noting that the age range in the Sanders study was 18e96 years, and included no minors. To achieve community buy-in, which is critical, one must be careful not to burden respondents and other key stakeholders. Admini...

The oral mucosa may be affected by a variety of systemic diseases and oral lesions most often may precede several mucocutaneous or systemic disorders. The systemic basis for many of the oral lesions is not clearly known. One such oral disease which may have a strong systemic basis for its pathogenesis is chronic desquamative gingivitis (CDG). In the literature there are conflicting reports as t...

BACKGROUND Gas6 is a vitamin K-dependent antiapoptotic protein that has been implicated in cardiovascular pathophysiology. We report the development and validation of an ELISA for Gas6, and the variation of plasma Gas6 with hormonal status in a study designed to evaluate the effect of oral contraception on plasma markers. METHODS After validation of the main stages of the ELISA assay, we meas...

Few serum biomarker tests are implemented in clinical practice and recent reports raise concerns about poor reproducibility of biomarker studies. Here, we investigated the potential role of sex and female hormonal status in this widespread irreproducibility. We examined 171 serum proteins and small molecules measured in 1,676 participants from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety. Co...