OBJECTIVE Determining the oral health status (dental decay and gingivitis) of adolescents from Mexico City and affection pattern by tooth type and treatment needs. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was designed for 590 adolescents aged 13 to 16 from an urban area of Mexico City. Oral exploration formed part of the health diagnosis provided by the Schools Promoting Health Programme....

Dental caries affects most adults worldwide; however, the risk factors for dental caries do not necessarily exert their effects uniformly across all tooth surfaces. Instead, the actions of some risk factors may be limited to a subset of teeth/surfaces. Therefore, we used hierarchical clustering on tooth surface-level caries data for 1,068 Appalachian adults (ages 18-75 yrs) to group surfaces ba...

The wave concept of group (or energy) velocity is used to predict how errors propagate in three numerical schemes for the solution of the diffusion equation with flow and decay. A five-point filter is used to isolate the long and the saw-tooth gridscale errors. Contour plots are presented which illustrate the markedly different propagation of the long and saw-tooth errors. The energy of long er...

large proportion of low‐income American adults face persistent, systemic barriers to oral health care – key among them, inadequate dental coverage. While states are federally mandated to provide comprehensive dental coverage for Medicaid‐enrolled children, dental benefits are optional for adult Medicaid beneficiaries, despite growing recognition of the consequences of poor oral health. These ca...

Coronal fractures of permanent dentition are the most frequent type of dental injury. If the original tooth fragment is retained following fracture, the natural tooth structures can be reattached using adhesive protocols. The development and use of fiber-reinforced composite root canal posts make possible of the reattachment of the crown esthetically. This case report presents a clinical techni...

The word periodontal means around the tooth and is used to refer to the chronic inflammation in the gums causing the gums, the bone structure and the tooth to fall prey to harmful repercussions. Our mouth is prone to bacterial attacks at all times. These bacteria can lead to tooth decay (Cavities), gum disease (Gingivitis) and periodontitis. Hormones are specific regulatory molecules that haves...

Root caries is not exclusive to older individuals. Any caries-prone patient having gum recession can develop root caries. However, the elderly are usually more vulnerable to root caries because of several conditions. First, older patients are more likely to experience gum recession. Gum recession exposes the root of the tooth, which is softer than the enamel-covered crown of the tooth. Conseque...

BACKGROUND Smokers often have oral health problems. We studied whether poor oral health among non-smoking adolescents is connected to smoking behaviour in adulthood. METHODS We used an age cohort born in 1979 (n = 2582) taking part in annual oral health check-ups between the ages of 13 and 15. Self-reported non-smokers were used as the study population. As measures we used decayed, missing or...