Dental hygiene is defined as the science and practice of the recognition, treatment and prevention of oral diseases. The history of dental hygiene research is considered in the context of the development of the discipline and an emerging infrastructure. Research-related events supporting the growth and maturation of the profession are considered from the early years to the most recent. The bene...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyze traumatic dental injuries in children visiting the dental hospital emergency department in Samsun of Turkey, in the period from 2007 to 2011. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data of age, gender, causes of dental trauma, injured teeth, type of dental injuries, the application period, the dental treatments, and traumatic dental injuries according to the ...

BACKGROUND The authors measured the awareness of the dental home concept among pediatric dentists (PDs) and general practice dentists (GPs) in Ohio and determined whether they included dental home characteristics for children 5 years and younger into their practices. METHODS The authors sent a pretested 20-question survey to all Ohio PDs and to a random sample of approximately 20 percent of G...

BACKGROUND So far, there are few studies considering the development of dental anxiety and dental attendance patterns across time in the general population of Norwegian adults. This study aimed to 1) determine the frequency of dental anxiety and regular dental attendance among 25-year-olds in Norway in 1997 and 2007, 2) to study the development (time trend) of dental anxiety and the socio-behav...

AIMS To identify the effect of unmet dental treatment needs and socioeconomic and sociodemographic variables on the patterns of dental visits in the presence of dental pain in 6- to 12-year-old Mexican schoolchildren. METHODS A case-control study included 379 patients that had a dental visit because of dental pain in the 12 months preceding this study and 1,137 controls. Mothers and/or guardi...

1Graduate Student, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, São José dos Campos Dental School, UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. 2DDS, MSc, PhD Student, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, São José dos Campos Dental School, UNESP, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. 3DDS, MS, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, S...

1. Post Graduate Student, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Institute of Dental Sciences & Technology, Modinagar 2. Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthodontics, Institute of Dental Sciences & Technology, Modinagar 3. Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Eklavya Dental College & Hospital, Kotputli, Rajasthan 4. Senior Lecturer, Department of Prosthodontics, Ko...

OBJECTIVE Using strain gauge (SG) analysis, the aim of this in vitro study was quantify the strain development during the fixation of three-unit screw implant-supported fixed partial dentures, varying the types of implant-abutment joints and the type of prosthetic coping. The hypotheses were that the type of hexagonal connection would generate different microstrains and the type of copings woul...

objective: predoctoral dental implant education is included in dental school teaching curricula in most of the developed and some developing countries; however, it was not introduced into undergraduate curriculum of some countries and iranian dental schools. our purpose was to investigate the status of the predoctoral dental implant education of dental schools in the world. materials and method...