Plants produce a number of antimicrobial substances and the roots of the shrub Salvadora persica have been demonstrated to possess antimicrobial activity. Sticks from the roots of S. persica, Miswak sticks, have been used for centuries as a traditional method of cleaning teeth. Diverging reports on the chemical nature and antimicrobial repertoire of the chewing sticks from S. persica led us to ...

The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of oral hygiene practices and halitosis among undergraduate students from King Saud University, College of Dentistry. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed among all 481 students; 263 male and 218 female students. A questionnaire was developed to assess the self-reported perception of oral breath, awareness of bad breath, timin...

Aim: Aimed to evaluate the effect of dental anxiety levels students at Sivas Cumhuriyet University Faculty Medicine on oral hygiene behaviors. Materials and Methods: It is descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out between September-October 2021. was applied online 216 volunteers from class I-V students. Students were asked about their sociodemographic characteristics, behaviors Corah Denta...

The rate of caries has long been observed to be very low in the users of chewing-sticks even when they consume high carbohydrate diets. Recent researches have revealed that the chewing-sticks help in cleaning the teeth not simply due to mechanical removal of plaque but also due to their chemical constituents that possess the properties of whitening the teeth, protecting them from decay and remo...

AIM This study aims to describe the oral hygiene practices and the oral health status of 12-year-old school children of Aden, Yemen. STUDY DESIGN Multistage stratified cross-sectional survey. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross- sectional survey of randomly selected schools in the city was performed. Four hundred 12-year-old students were recruited in the study from both private (N. 200) and go...