OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation of oral health home-care practices, snacking habits and dental caries experience among 3-15 year-old-HIV-positive children attending out-patient clinic at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya. DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital comprehensive care centre out-patient clinic. SUBJECTS Two hundred and twenty par...

The aim of this study was to determine if students selected from Japanese dental schools for competition at the Japan Dental Association meeting and who subsequently won awards were different from students who did not win. Eighty abstracts submitted from 1995 to 2001 by dental students for the Japan Student Clinician Program (SCP) award were evaluated. Multiple logistic regression analysis usin...

INTRODUCTION. Pain intensity and oral health practices among patients with toothache, a major dental public health problem is necessary information for the formulation of preventive and interventional oral health policies. OBJECTIVE. To assess the pain intensity and oral health practices among dental patients attending a Nigerian secondary healthcare setting with toothache. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

Urgent dental care education is a critical aspect of the D.D.S. curriculum as dental students must be adequately prepared to face real-world dental emergency challenges in practice. Dental emergency education is likely the most variable component of the dental curriculum. To assess potential differences in emergency education, a sixteen-question survey was sent to directors of urgent care of al...

The autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are neuro-development disorders. The provision of dental care for affected children can be challenging because they are often unsettled in the dental environment. The dentist frequently must make adjustments in clinic practice and use behavior management strategies to meet the special needs of the patients with these diso...

The purpose of this study was to identify the performance differences between two groups of Austrian dental students (one with a prior medical degree and one without a medical degree) during their dental school training and final dental licensure examination. A specific aim was to determine if having a medical degree is a predictive factor for dental students' scores on the Austrian Dental Admi...

BACKGROUND The management of the avulsion of deciduous and permanent teeth in children is well outlined in the guidelines of the International Association of Dental Traumatology and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. However, little information is available about the level of knowledge in the management of dental trauma among undergraduate dental students in Japan. The objective of th...

BACKGROUND In Isfahan, the second metropolitan in Iran, there are 1448 dentistry treatment centers that most of them are inefficient. Today, efficiency is the most important issue in health care centers as well as dentistry clinics. The goal of this research is to investigate the affordability and efficiency of dentistry clinics in Isfahan province, Iran. METHODS The current work is a quantit...

Objectives: To evaluate the attitude and awareness of the dental students and interns toward infection control measures in prosthodontic clinic and to assess their satisfaction toward applying these measures during prosthodontic treatment. Methods: A questionnaire study was conducted among 360 fourth and fifth dental students and interns (238 males and 122 females) in November 2014 in College o...