VOLUME 46 • NUMBER 6 • JUNE 2015 The primary goal of dental education is to train dental professionals who can competently address a wide range of issues in oral health care and independently practice evidence-based comprehensive dentistry aimed at improving the health of society.1 Competency-based education as a philosophy has widely been adopted by dental schools worldwide for both undergradu...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Health Interview Survey, 2008. Among approximately 172 million persons under age 65 years with private health insurance: The majority of persons (73%) had some type of dental coverage. However, approximately 45 million persons had no dental coverage. About 8 out of 10 persons with employment-based private health insurance had dental coverage compared with abo...

Dr. Waldman is Professor of Dental Health Services, School of Dental Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook; Dr. Perlman is Global Clinical Director, Special Olympics, Special Smiles and Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatric Dentistry, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University. Direct correspondence to Dr. H. Barry Waldman, Professor of Dental Health Services, Department of General Dentis...

1Postgraduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College & Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College & Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 3Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College & Research Institute, Bangalore, K...

OBJECTIVE The Common Risk Factor Approach proposes that public health efforts can be improved by multiple agencies working together on a shared risk factor. The present study aimed to assess the acceptability to parents, dental practice staff and commissioners of the delivery of dietary advice in the dentistry setting in order to address obesity. DESIGN Semi-structured focus groups with denta...

The aim of this research was to study the evolution of dental health of dental students during their academic training and to assess the extent to which the knowledge acquired was reflected in their own dental care. A sample of 107 students at the schools of dentistry and medicine (the latter as a comparison group) of the University of Barcelona, Spain, underwent an oral examination and complet...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate self-reported oral health attitude and behavior among a group of Turkish dental students and to compare differences in oral health attitudes between years of study and gender. METHODS This study included 267 (153 female, 114 male) dental students. A modified English version of Hiroshima University Dental-Behavioral Inventory (HU-DBI) which ...

Data are presented on dental and general health for seven groups of wild ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta, from the Beza Mahafaly Reserve, in southern Madagascar. As part of a study of population demography, adults were captured, collared, and tagged, and biometric measurements, dental casts, and analyses of dental and general health were made. Results indicate that patterns of dental health var...

The present research developed the Self-Regulation for Dental Home Care Questionnaire (SRDHCQ), based on self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2000), and used it in an SDT process model of dental health behaviors and self-rated oral health. In this model, patients’ perceptions of autonomy-supportive (relative to controlling) dental professionals were expected to positively predict patien...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine the extent of dental health knowledge among students at the Kuwait University Health Sciences Centre (HSC), as well as their attitudes toward dental health and their oral hygiene habits. METHODS A structured questionnaire was distributed to 450 of the 800 students enrolled in 3 faculties of the HSC from March to April 2000. The questionnaire was...