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...

Dental educators provide learning experiences for dental students that help them develop the belief that universal access to oral health care is a social justice imperative that will compel them to provide care to underserved patients after they graduate. To accomplish these learning outcomes, dental schools first recruit underrepresented minority students and students with previous volunteeris...

BACKGROUND Dental care is extremely costly and beyond most people means in developing countries. The primary aim of this study was to determine the impact of out-of-pocket payments for dental care on household finances in 40 low and middle income countries. A second aim was to compare the burden of payments for dental care with that for other health services. METHODS We used data from 174,257...

This paper reviews more than 30 studies of health care utilization in which the effects of religion variables are examined, an area previously unreviewed. The authors found that over three-quarters of these studies reported significant religious differences in rates of utilization. The most common operationalization of religion was religious affiliation (typically Protestant vs Catholic vs Jewi...

BACKGROUND Oral health impacts on general health and quality of life, and oral diseases are the most common non-communicable diseases worldwide. Non-White ethnic groups account for an increasing proportion of the UK population. This study explores whether there are ethnic differences in oral health and whether these are explained by differences in sociodemographic or lifestyle factors, or use o...

Increasing the quality of the services provided in a Dental School can raise the satisfaction level of patients and consequently increase the level of their oral health. This study was conducted to evaluate the quality of dental care and services provided to patients referred to a Dental School in Kerman, Iran. In this qualitative study, face-to-face, in-depth interviews were conducted with 41 ...

The scope of this study was to investigate dental care from the life course perspective and its determinant factors among young people in the city of Sobral, State of Ceará, Brazil. A cohort study was conducted with waves in 2000, 2006 and 2012 with 482 young people aged between 17 and 21 years. Two outcomes were investigated: immediate dental care and the lack of dental care, based on the dent...