BACKGROUND AND AIM: Oral health knowledge and oral health seeking behavior among people living with human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) (PLWHA) have been found to be very low. The importance of education to improve awareness and oral health practices cannot be overemphasized. The study determined the level of awareness, perceived oral status...

For several decades, health professions education has been transforming; pedagogical constructs such as active learning, recorded lectures, electronic assessment, asynchronous content delivery, and interprofessional practice. However, the typical oral curriculum need for further transformation to ensure graduates' ability function in an integrated system. There is significant literature outlini...

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...

Taxonomies provide schemas to help classify entities and define the relationships between them. Early computing enabled the development of ontologies and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), the first modern classification of medical terminology as applied to medical literature. Later developments, such as MEDLINE, expanded MeSH to include a number of medical informatics terms. However, a lack of s...