OBJECTIVES Every expectant mother should receive a comprehensive oral health education & risk assessment. Numerous reports have shown association between oral diseases and preterm, low birth weight and gestational diabetes. The purpose of this study is to understand the attitude, knowledge regarding prenatal and perinatal oral health care among obstetricians and knowledge, attitude & practice s...

OBJECTIVE To gain a better understanding of the level of literacy in information technology (IT) across the dental team working within primary care in Scotland, thus allowing appropriate planning of education and training for effective use of IT. DESIGN A postal questionnaire survey of all dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) within primary care in Scotland; online reply was also an ...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is the most prevalent oral disease in children and this is preventable. Paediatricians are the first professionals whom children visit and are in good position to begin the process of prevention of dental caries if they recognize and encourage good preventive habits. OBJECTIVE To determine the knowledge, practice and opinion of pediatricians in prevention of dental ca...

This paper describes and compares the education in and practice of dental public health in Finland and the United Kingdom. A brief introduction describes the populations of the two countries in terms of their geography, mean per capita, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), life expectancy, recent oral epidemiological data, oral health needs and the dental workforce. This is followed by a description o...

Believe it or not, the art of dentistry taking care one’s teeth has been established long before original toothbrushes were made. The first use was invented by Chinese in 15th to 16th century.

This chapter will describe the role and evolution of the scope of clinical practice of dental hygienists, dental therapists and oral health therapists. These three groups of allied oral health professionals are playing an increasingly important role in the provision of oral health services and it is therefore important to understand how they are utilised as part of the dental team. Historically...

Introduction: Oral and dental health is one of the most important parts of public health. The purpose of this study was to assess the factors influencing oral and dental health among the pregnant mothers referring to urban health centers in Khorramabad, Iran, based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) in 2016. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 340 pregnant mothers living in Khorramabad, Iran...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the knowledge, attitude and practice behaviors of dental hygienists' providing oral health care to pregnant women. METHODS Data was collected from an anonymous electronic survey administered to all Michigan Dental Hygiene Association (MDHA) members (n=1,047). The survey asked questions which assessed dental hygienists knowledge, behaviors and a...

many health studies were interested to find the association between multiple predictors with a dependent variable. the popular method to analyze these studies was multiple regressions that assumed the predictors were independent. while in practice some predictors may depend on each other and they could not be presented in a regression model simultaneously, as a result the appropriate models suc...