Sex disparities in dental caries have been observed across many populations, with females typically exhibiting higher prevalence and more affected teeth. In this study we assessed the sex disparities in two Northern Appalachian populations from West Virginia (WV, N = 1997) and Pennsylvania (PA, N = 1080) by comparing caries indices between males and females across four phases of dental developm...

The aim of this article is to present the pediatric dentistry and orthodontic treatment protocol of rehabilitation of cleft lip and palate patients performed at the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies-University of São Paulo (HRAC-USP). Pediatric dentistry provides oral health information and should be able to follow the child with cleft lip and palate since the first months o...

AIM To report national data on dental caries in Danish children and adolescents from 1988 to 2001. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological study. METHODS Data on dental caries for 5, 7, 12 and 15 year old individuals reported from 1988 to 2001 to the database established by the Danish National Board of Health. RESULTS Caries has decreased in all four age groups, but the d...

Few U.S. adults today experience life without permanent anterior teeth and know little about how an incomplete anterior dentition affects adult well-being. Sudanese refugees, who had resettled in the U.S. and who had six mandibular anterior teeth ritually extracted during youth, provided an opportunity to examine the significance of the effect of this partial edentulism. The authors interviewed...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between incisor and condyle movement during protrusion in children with primary dentition. Subjects were categorized into two age groups. A primary dentition group consisted of 20 children and a permanent dentition group consisted of 25 women. The occlusions and TMJs in both groups were normal, with no history of orthodontic treatment...

A comparison between occlusal deviations in the permanent dentition in the skulls of 94 19th century and 157 present-day Austrian males was made by means of the PAR Index. It was found that the contemporary dentitions showed significantly higher malocclusion scores than the 19th century sample (weighted PAR Index 11.79 and 6.62, respectively). The results show that secular changes in malocclusi...

Objective: To evaluate orthodontists’ preferences in the use and timing of appliances for correction Class II III malocclusions growing patients sociodemographic factors that influence these preferences. Material Methods: Active members Colombian Orthodontics Society (SCO) were invited to complete a previously validated survey on correctors patients. Results: 180 orthodontists responded (80 mal...

A permanent sample plot (PSP) data set was enumerated from primary forest in Jambi province, Indonesia. No silvicultural treatment (harvesting, thinning, poisoning) was applied to the plot during the period in which measurements were taken. The data set including individual tree information such as tree identity, diameter and position within the plot, was input into the Sustainable Yield Manage...