To describe the self-reported oral health knowledge, attitudes and oral hygiene habits, among pregnant women receiving antenatal care at the Lagos State University teaching Hospital (LASUTH). A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted at the LASUTH antenatal clinic during the period January - June 2008. Most of the respondents demonstrated a reasonable level of oral health knowl...

BACKGROUND The use of tobacco is known to increase the incidence of developing oral cancer by 6 times, while the additive effect of drinking alcohol further increases the risk leading to higher rate of morbidity and mortality. In this short communication, we prospectively assessed the effect of tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking in oral cancer patients on the overall mortality from the diseas...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The number of patients who need prosthetic treatments has increased. Efficient and regular procedures for cleaning removable dentures are important for maintaining good oral health. The aim of this study was to analyze the oral and prostheses care habits of removable denture users, who attended the clinics of Kerman, Iran. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out ...

One of the most challenging tasks for a pediatric dentist is the management of deleterious oral habits which adversely affect the dentofacial complex. However, if these habits can be intercepted and diagnosed well in time, they can save the patient from the psychological impact of undergoing long treatment therapies. One such rare deleterious oral habit is cheek biting that affects the buccal m...

The researchers seek to provide a Gamification model that will help children of Sri Lanka improve their oral hygiene habits, thereby acting as change agent influencing adults’ behaviors have good habits. nature the study was multi-method due its complexity. took place within 13 weeks, where data longitudinally collected from 50 families in natural environment. Both descriptive statistics and qu...

OBJECTIVES: To find the association of extraversion personality traits with oral parafunctional habits. METHODOLOGY: A Cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 200 individuals in College Dentistry, Sharif Medical and Dental College, Lahore, over 5 months from July to November 2021. Data collected using a pre-validated medical questionnaire ten-item inventory scale (TIPI). The sampling...

Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a chronic, progressive, debilitating condition affecting oral mucosa with recognized high risk of transformation into malignancy. Areca nut, betel quid, and gutka consumption are the established primary culprits culminating in chronic irritation leading to inflammation and fibrosis of exposed mucosa. The aim of the study was to describe the pattern of presentati...

INTRODUCTION Oral lichen planus (OLP) is one of the most common dermatologic diseases that manifests in the oral cavity. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between smoking habits and the clinical subtypes of OLP. METHODS Oral findings and smoking data from 187 charts of OLP patients from an oral medicine clinic was reviewed and compared to data from 76 matched control p...