PURPOSE This study surveyed dental hygienists in order to assess their routine approach for dental implant maintenance and to determine if a relationship exists between the formal education of dental hygienists and their previous attendance and interest in future implant related continuing education courses. METHODS A survey was distributed to dental hygienists attending an annual national c...

PURPOSE Relative to the overall population, older adults consume a disproportionally large percentage of health care resources. Despite advocacy and efforts initiated more than 30 years ago, the number of providers with specialized training in geriatrics is still not commensurate with the growing population of older adults. This contribution provides a contemporary update on the status of geria...

In this reflection article, Dr. Huw F. Thomas, a U.S. dental school dean, identifies important messages and insights he gained from a series of twenty-one articles about the future of dental education published in the Journal of Dental Education from October 2005 to February 2009. This article addresses three questions: 1) What influence have these articles had on a dental school dean's perspec...

background: dental students have reported a high prevalence of psychological stress and the causes are associated with the challenging dental environmental and demographic factors. this study aimed to conduct a preliminary investigation on dental students’ stress status, using a sample of first-to-third-year bachelor of dental surgery students in an australian university. special interests incl...

Dr. Ettinger is Professor, Department of Prosthodontics and Dows Institute for Dental Research, University of Iowa; Dr. Chalmers is Associate Professor, Geriatric and Special Care Program, Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Iowa; and Dr. Frenkel is Advisor in Community Dentistry (SW Region), SW Dental Postgraduate Deanery, Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol, England. Direct corresp...

The use of telecommunications--telephone, computer, videoconferencing equipment--to provide mental health services at a distance has grown rapidly. This review encompasses reports from programs that provide telepsychiatry services, including telephone- and computer- based education and support services, telephone screening for dementia, and the use of videoconferencing to provide psychiatric co...

Minimal intervention dentistry (MID), a modern, evidence-based approach to caries management in dentate patients, uses a medical model whereby disease is controlled by the "oral physician" and an affiliated dental team. Geriatric MID helps clinicians to address the ever-increasing restorative challenges presented by older patients, including erosion, abrasion, demineralization, rampant coronal ...

Allied dental healthcare providers have been an integral part of the dental team since the turn of the 19th century. Like dental education, allied dental education's history includes a transition from apprenticeships and proprietary school settings to dental schools and community and technical colleges. There are currently 258 dental assisting programs, 255 dental hygiene programs, and 28 denta...

BACKGROUND The manifestations of oral changes and disorders affecting the geriatric population are different from the rest of the population. Inaccessibility to dental care is a compelling impediment to avail oral health services. OBJECTIVE The aims were to assess the dental and oral problems and to find out the determinants of oral health seeking behaviour among elderly population of Al-Jouf...