Objectives: Dental caries is a public health problem that affects pre-school and school children throughout the world. Poor oral health profoundly affects a person’s quality of life. Information on caries prevalence and severity represents the basis for caries prevention programs and indicates treatment necessity in the population. The occurrence of permanent teeth caries particularly in non-in...

Introduction: Despite advances in caries treatment, the disease still afflicts populations deprived of access to goods and services. Objective: To determine prevalence dental as well treatment needs for children aged five twelve years old from rural public schools Alfenas/MG. Material method: Cross-sectional descriptive observational study, carried out through an epidemiological survey, which d...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Dental and periodontal disease are potentially involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. We investigated whether dental and periodontal status is associated with the presence and future progression of carotid stenosis. METHODS We randomly selected 411 of 1268 participants from the prospective Inflammation and Carotid Artery Risk for Atherosclerosis Study and eval...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship of orthodontic malocclusion with periodontal status, dental caries, and sociodemographic status. Our study population consisted of a sample of 836 school children (384 male and 452 female, aged 11-14 years). Four experienced orthodontists and two experienced periodontists performed the clinical examinations. The Treatment Priority Index (T...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of dental caries in patients with cleft lip and/or palate and their cleft-free sibling controls. METHODS The two subject groups (patient and control) comprised 106 participants. The former group consisted of 53 patients with cleft lip and/or palate,aged 12 to 29 years, who visited the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Hospital at Damascus University of Syria....

Introduction: Hearing impaired children are part of children with special needs in Bulgaria. To them so far not studied for incidence of dental caries. She is one of the very important indicators in the assessment of risk for its development, which is important for the modeling of the oral environment in every child. Aim: To determine the incidence of dental caries in hearing impaired children ...

The global oral health situation of 12-year-old children--decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT) index and the percentage of population affected--is described in this article using the latest representative studies for 80 countries included in the WHO Global Oral Data Bank (GODB) between 1986 and 1996. The quantity of information varied considerably: 68% of developed market economies had at leas...

A wellness is not easy to define, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 19481 defined health as “a complete state of physical, social, and mental well-being and not merely absence of disease”. This bio-psycho-social model changed the previous concept of health oriented merely by disease. Therefore, promoting oral health, and preventing dental caries is a dimension of being healthy. Tremendous ...