INTRODUCTION This article compares and evaluates the effect of dental health education through schoolteachers and dental health professionals to "specific learning needs" children attending special school. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 71 "specific learning needs" children attending special school participated in the study. The baseline oral hygiene index-simplified (OHI-S) for all the par...

BACKGROUND Child Health Investment Partnership (CHIP) of Roanoke Valley is a home visiting program that promotes children's health and family self-sufficiency. CHIP's Begin With a Grin program provides preventive dental services in the home (oral health anticipatory guidance and fluoride varnish) for children aged 0 to 6 years. The purpose of this study was to compare the dental utilization of ...

PURPOSE To explore the oral health perceptions and practices of Vietnamese adolescents 13 to 17 years old in San Jose, Calif. METHODS A purposeful sample of 10 Vietnamese parents with adolescent children were recruited at a Temple in San Jose, Calif. After gaining parental consent and adolescent assent, Vietnamese adolescents participated in an audio-taped, 20 to 30 minute, individual, semi-s...

The contributions of dental hygiene as a discipline of prevention, the inception of systemic fluoride in community water systems, the continual research conducted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), and the success of dental sealants have all contributed to the decrease in incidences of dental diseases. The prevalence of employer-based dental insurance must al...

6. Lewis DW, Ismail AI. Preventive Dental Care (Chapter 36). Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1994. 7. US Preventive Services Task Force cited in Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Canadian guide to clinical preventive health care. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1994: 408-431. 8. Allister J, Stewart J, Spencer ...

High level of periodontal problems of dental caries are frequently observed in mentally handicapped children. This group of patients presents various problems when they face dental treatments. Identification of such population and providing them affordable oral health care is the new concept. A systematic method for identification and screening of persons with mental retardation has been develo...

This study explored catastrophic health expenditure in China, due to out-of-pocket payments for dental care, and its associated individual- and contextual-level factors. We pooled data from 31,566 adults who participated in the third National Oral Health Survey with province-level data from different sources. We defined catastrophic dental health expenditure (CDHE) as payments for dental servic...

BACKGROUND An asymmetrical oral disease burden is endured by certain population subgroups, particularly children and adolescents. Reducing oral health disparities requires understanding multiple oral health perspectives, including those of adolescents. This qualitative study explores oral health perceptions and dental care behaviors among rural adolescents. METHODS Semistructured individual i...

aims: decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft) index plays a key role in health care decision-making. according to who guideline, dmft should not be more than 1 in 12-year old children. the role of fluoride intake in tooth and bone health is also well known. this study was carried out to investigate the dmft index in junior high school students of golpaygan city, iran, and its relation the fluo...

conclusions according to this study results, implant-retained overdenture prosthesis provided better qol for iranian patients. results in the group of iod, 55.6% of the patients had “good” qol vs. 46.7% of the patients in cd group. three patients (6.6%) in both groups had “poor” qol. no significant relationship was observed between demographic factors and different dimensions of qol, except the...