BACKGROUND The burden of untreated tooth decay remains high and oral healthcare utilisation is low for the majority of children in South Africa. There is need for alternative methods of improving access to low cost oral healthcare. The mobile dental unit of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has been operational for over 25 years, providing alternative oral healthcare to children and ad...

Over the past few years, community-based clinical teaching programs have become established within many dental schools in the United Kingdom. One such primary care teaching unit was developed to support the dental undergraduate program at Cardiff University in 2002. Students visit this unit throughout their five-year dental school training-as assistants/observers initially, but gaining about tw...

Department of Infectious Parasitic and ImmuneMediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy (M L Ricci BiolD, S Fontana PhD, F Pinci BiolD, M Scaturro PhD); Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale, Forlì, Italy (E Fiumana MD); Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale, Cesena, Italy (M F Pedna BiolD); Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente, Bologna, Italy (M A Bucci Sabattini BiolD); and “G B Morga...

Objective: A cross-sectional study was carried out to assess standard precaution practices among dental personnel and to investigate microbial counts in indoor air samples collected from a hospital dental clinic before and during dental works. Material and Method: Thirty dental personnel who voluntarily participated were interviewed using a questionnaire towards demographic information and stan...

statement of the problem the incidence of infectious diseases is considerably high among dentists and the team of dental care providers because of frequent exposure to blood and saliva. therefore, infection control regulations must be taken seriously in order to prevent cross-contamination purpose the aim of the present study was to investigate infection control measures in dental offices in ha...

Different service models have emerged in Canada and the United States to address the issue of senior citizens' lack of access to comprehensive dental care. Over the past decade, one such model, the use of mobile dental service units, has emerged as a practical strategy. This article describes a mobile unit, operated as an adjunct to the general practitioner's office and relying mainly on existi...

UNLABELLED Dental unit water systems are contaminated with biofilms that amplify bacterial counts in dental treatment water in excess of a million colony forming units per milliliter (cfu/ml). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Dental Association have agreed that the maximum allowable contamination of dental treatment water not exceed 500 cfu/ml. This study was cond...