Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes that providing both primary and comprehensive preventive and therapeutic oral health care to individuals with special health care needs (SHCN) is an integral part of the specialty of pediatric dentistry.1 The AAPD values the unique qualities of each person and the need to ensure maximal health attainment for all, regardless o...

With the availability of oral care services very unevenly distributed in rural or remote areas, underserved people seek oral care from non-dental care providers. Against this backdrop, and coupled with the decreasing cost of and innovations in technology, there is a growing interest in the adoption of telemedicine services. Regardless of the lack of good-quality evidence supporting the cost-eff...

School of Dentistry Dental Special Topics (DENS) DENS 503. Introduction to Behavioral Science in Dentistry. 1 Hour. Semester course; 16 didactic hours. 1 credit. Prerequisite: enrollment within a School of Dentistry degree program. Course consists of online lectures, discussion board activities, assigned readings and interactive activities centering on understanding health disparities and acces...

Author details Division of Critical Care Medicine (University of Alberta Hospital), Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, 2-124 Clinical Sciences Building, 8440-112 Street NW, Edmonton, AB T6G 2B7, Canada. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, 5-112 Clinical Sciences Building, 8440-112 Street, Edmonton, AB T6G 2B7, Canada. Division...

The purpose of this article was to compare the social representation between dentistry and social sciences students, concerning the process of health and disease, and the conception of health professional position in our society, aiming a contribution to improve dentistry students' social formation. It is a qualitative research and its methodology was based in interviews performed by two resear...

First submission on 07/01/13; last submission on 07/01/14; accepted for publication on 07/01/14; published on 20/04/14 1. Master’s student of Dentistry at the Post-Graduate Program in Public Health of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). 2. Doctorate in Oral Pathology from UFRN; senior associate professor at the Dentistry Department of UFRN. 3. Doctorate in Sciences from Universi...

AIM The aim was to assess the oral health needs of homeless people in dedicated homeless dental units in London, Cardiff and Glasgow and a homeless shelter in Birmingham in order to allow recommendations for service delivery to be made for this socially excluded group. METHODOLOGY Two questionnaires were designed, one to be completed by homeless people and the other by members of the dental t...

Holistic dentistry or biologic dentistry is an age old alternative approach that is based on the assertion that the whole body is one unit and any changes in one part of this unit can have an impact on the whole unit. Traditional dentistry deals with the head and neck region in general and oral cavity unequivocally but holistic dentistry deals with the unrecognised impact of oral health on the ...

1Reader, 2,3Professor, 4Professor and Head 1,4Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Himachal Institute of Dental Sciences, Paonta Sahib, Himachal Pradesh India 2Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Swami Devi Dyal Hospital and Dental College, Panchkula, Haryana India 3Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Maharishi Markandeshwar College of Dental Scien...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) results in significant morbidity that includes an adverse impact on oral health that is generally not well recognized. This review describes current literature which demonstrates poor oral health in children with JIA. The impact of JIA on oral health is probably multifactorial and these factors are discussed. This review emphasizes the role of paediatric dent...