Atul Anand Bajoria1, M L Asha2, Medha Babshet3, Preeti Patil3, Piyush Sukhija1 1Post-graduate, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 3Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Rad...

Anuja Chandra1, Hoti Lal Gupta2, Pradeep Kumar3 1Post-graduate Student, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Rajasthan Dental College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 3Reader, Department of Periodontics and Oral Implantology, Rajasthan Denta...

Sagar Satish Jangam1, Pallavi Adinath Ranadive2, Snehal Nilesh Ingole3, Mohan Devidas Deshpande3 1Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 2Assistant Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 3Professor, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Sur...

BACKGROUND Collaboration between dental practitioners and non-dental primary care providers has the potential to improve oral health care for people in rural and remote communities, where access to oral health services is limited. However, there is limited research on collaboration between these professional disciplines. The purpose of this paper was to explore the relationships between dental ...

BACKGROUND In England and Scotland, dental extraction is the single highest cause of planned admission to the hospital for children under 11 years. Traditional dental services have had limited success in reducing this disease burden. Interventions based on motivational interviewing have been shown to impact positively dental health behaviours and could facilitate the prevention of re-occurrence...

BACKGROUND To improve the oral health of low-income children, innovations in dental delivery systems are needed, including community-based care, the use of expanded duty auxiliary dental personnel, capitation payments, and global budgets. This paper describes the protocol for PREDICT (Population-centered Risk- and Evidence-based Dental Interprofessional Care Team), an evaluation project to test...

INTRODUCTION Dental emergencies often present to primary care providers in general practice and Emergency Departments (ED), who may be unable to manage them effectively due to limited knowledge, skills and available resources. This may impact negatively on patient outcomes. Provision of a short educational workshop intervention in the management of such emergencies, including education in suppo...

INTRODUCTION The oral health of rural Australians continues to lag behind that of those living in metropolitan areas. Research has shown that people living in rural areas are more likely to suffer from dental caries (decay), visit the dentist less often and have poorer access to oral health services. The purpose of the study was to examine hospitalisations for dental conditions and utilisation ...