Background Due to the increase in prevalence of asthma, especially childhood, oral health problems arising from use asthma medications have become a major concern. Inhaled corticosteroids are widely used since they cornerstone management. This study aimed investigate effects inhaled on and various factors regarding active ingredients inhalers, inhaler-spacer device use, rinsing mouth after admi...

OBJECTIVES Dental diseases in children have been reduced in recent decades in developed countries, although trends remain unclear in other countries. Oral healthcare in Argentina is based on demand and depends on a patient's health insurance coverage. The objective of this study was to determine the oral health situation of the population of six-year-olds in Berisso, Buenos Aires province (Arge...

BACKGROUND Limited research has been undertaken in Australia to assess the dental status of pre-school Aboriginal children. This cross-sectional study records the number of decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft) and surfaces (dmfs) of pre-school Aboriginal children living in different locations in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. METHODS A convenience sample of young children from seven Ab...

Oral Health and Social Inequalities are intrinsically interrelated. Aim: assess the association of dental caries in relation with socio-economic status, age and sex in population of Lucknow. Material & MethodAn epidemiological study was conducted in a dental teaching hospital of Lucknow. Oral examination was performed to record DMFT and DMFS scores. Data regarding age, sex, and socioeconomic st...

INTRODUCTION Dental caries is one of the most common conditions affecting the general health of children. The present study was carried out among school children of Kathmandu valley to determine the prevalence of dental caries in two age groups. METHODS The study was conducted from December 2007 to May 2008. The age of the school children of the study was divided into two group: 5 - 6 years a...

A cross-sectional study was performed with the aim to investigate the caries prevalence and associated factors in 6 to 15 year old school children living in a village outside Cluj-Napoca, Romania. All children were offered to be included and examined for dental caries according to World Health Organisation (WHO) criteria. Caries was scored at the tooth and surface levels D/d=decayed, M/m=missin...

Salivary components may suffer variations that can be detected by chemical determinations. The aim of this work was to determine physical and biochemical characteristics of the saliva of a group of diabetic children compared to those of a control group. Relation to oral health indices was also determined. Twenty diabetic children (3-15-years-old) and 21 control children (5-12-years-old) were in...

BACKGROUND The Caries Assessment Spectrum and Treatment (CAST) is a new epidemiological instrument for detection and treatment of dental caries. Worldwide, the WHO criterion constitutes the epidemiological tool most commonly used for caries detection. The objective of the present study is to determine the levels of similarity and difference between the CAST instrument and WHO criterion on the b...

There are universal patterns of caries, in terms of prevalence, incidence, frequency distribution and rates of progression, in permanent teeth that can be considered working rules that can be applied when planning dental care. The universal patterns are: (1) caries levels follow trend lines; therefore, knowing the caries level at one age can be used to predict the levels at later ages in that c...