BACKGROUND Dental care is the most common unmet health care need for children with chronic conditions. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that not all children with chronic conditions encounter difficulties accessing dental care. The goals of this study are to evaluate dental care use for Medicaid-enrolled children with chronic conditions and to identify the subgroups of children with chronic...

The objective of this study was to investigate distribution of stresses in the human TMJ discs, generated during clenching into various occlusal positions. The work presents a biomechanical finite element model of interaction of mandibular and maxillary dental arches and the TMJ discs of a particular person, based on real geometrical data obtained from spiral computed tomography two-dimensional...

BACKGROUND Child Health Investment Partnership (CHIP) of Roanoke Valley is a home visiting program that promotes children's health and family self-sufficiency. CHIP's Begin With a Grin program provides preventive dental services in the home (oral health anticipatory guidance and fluoride varnish) for children aged 0 to 6 years. The purpose of this study was to compare the dental utilization of ...

This study was undertaken to examine which factors contributed to the correction of crowding in two patients who underwent nonextraction orthodontic treatment. A study model analysis was conducted to determine the effects of the orthodontic treatment for crowding with high canines on crown angulation and dental arch width in two patients. The results showed that the crown angulation was signifi...

BACKGROUND In anesthetic practice, tooth damage may impair patient safety and is a common reason for litigation. The use of dental shields may reduce this complication. In this study, we examined the effectiveness of dental shields for altering the force on the teeth during endotracheal intubation. METHODS Five preformed dental shields (Endoragard, Ormco, Nouveau Dispositif (ND), PEB, and Cam...

Background & objectives: Dental caries is one of the most common chronic diseases and affected by many determinants identified as social inequalities. So, this study explored how social determinants of health had impacts on dental health in school children of Hamadan. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted based on data related to the examination of 14858 students in Hamadan in 2016...

The traditional approach to dental skills training has drawbacks in terms of cost, availability, and lack of real-world cases. We develop a virtual reality (VR) dental training system utilizing a haptic (force feedback) device. We generate three-dimensional surface model of the teeth from patient’s data and a realistic model of a dental handpiece with a cylindrical cutting burr. Collision detec...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence of an association between oral health, specifically dental status, and chronic systemic diseases. However, varying measures of dental status across different populations and low study sample has made comparison of studies and conclusion of findings unclear. Our aim is to examine whether the number of teeth as a measure of dental status is associated with inc...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of filmed modeling in comparison with commonly used tell-show-do technique (t.s.d) on the anxious and cooperative behavior of 4-6 years old children during dental practice. materials and methods: forty six children aged 4-6 years were enrolled in this study and randomly allocated into two groups. group i: at the fi rst visit, the proc...