Background and aims. Tooth development is widely used in determining age and state of maturity. Dental age is of high importance in forensic and pediatric dentistry and also orthodontic treatment planning .The aim of this study was to compare the accuracy of four radiographic age estimation methods. Materials and methods. Orthopantomographic images of 537 healthy children (age: 3.9-14.5 years o...

Received on: 6/11/10 Accepted after Revision: 9/12/10 2Professor and Head, 3Professor, 4Associate Professor Private Practice, Gurgaon, Haryana, India 2Department of Pedodontics, Laxmibai Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Patiala, Punjab, India 3Department of Orthodontics, Inderprastha Dental College Sahibabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 4Department of Orthodontics, Government Dental College,...

Patients with special needs often present a challenge for the dental care team. The exacting and surgical nature of dental procedures requires significant patient cooperation to ensure the safe delivery of care. Some individuals who have special care needs have difficulty cooperating during treatment, thus creating a potentially harmful situation. Modern dentistry, particularly pediatric dentis...

BACKGROUND Can the entry of a policy entrepreneur challenge the equilibrium of a policy network and promote changes that might clash with the goals of powerful civil-servants and/or interest groups and, if so, why and how? Our goal is to examine two sides of the same coin: how does an in-depth analysis of Israel's dental care reform enrich our understanding of policy networks and policy entrepr...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study were to investigate the willingness of general practitioners to provide dental care for preschool-aged children, and to explore the relationship between dental school experiences and practitioners' attitudes about treating Medicaid-enrolled children 3 years of age and younger. METHODS A survey was mailed to 3,559 randomly selected general dentists in Texas. R...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate fear, temperament, behavioral symptoms and verbal intelligence in a study group of uncooperative child dental patients, partly in comparison with a reference group of ordinary child dental patients. A second aim was to explore a hypothesis of heterogeneity by searching for subgroups within the study group. METHODS Parents of 86 study group children (36 ...

The goal of this study was to identify the factors and program characteristics that influenced the program ranking decisions of applicants to pediatric dentistry residency programs. A questionnaire was sent to the first-year resident class in 2005 with a response rate of 69.2 percent (n=260). Approximately 55 percent were female (104/180) and 61 percent were non-His-panic white (110/180). The r...

Owais Gowhar1, Narendra Nath Singh2, Tasneem S Ain3, Saima Sultan4 1Dental Surgeon, Department of Dentistry, Government J and K Health Services, Jammu and Kashmir, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Kothiwal Dental College and Research Centre, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, 3Dental Specialist, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kothiwal Dental Colle...

PURPOSE Effective verbal communication is essential for successful dental treatment. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively and quantitatively examine communication techniques used by pediatric postdoctoral students during treatment. The operation of a communication model comprised of three linguistic approaches-permissive, empathic and personal-together with other strategies common to ...