BACKGROUND AND AIM The role of caretakers at day-care centers has become more imperative in promoting oral health care in children since many new mothers opt to work outside their homes, leaving their children at day-care centers. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of oral health promoting factors among secondary caretakers of children attending day-care cen...

OBJECTIVE To determine the reasons for replacement of composite resin restorations and evaluate the association between the reasons for replacement of restorations with gender, duration of failure and different class of cavities. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Operative Department of Fatima Jinnah Dental Hospital, Karachi, from January to May 2009. METHODO...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is the most prevalent oral disease of childhood; however, not much attention has been given to studies on this among the rural Nigerian children. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence and risk factors associated with dental caries in secondary school children residing in the rural communities of Awgu North Local Government Area, Enugu. METHODS...

AIM The aim of the Child Dental Health Survey in Lithgow was to establish the oral health status of primary schoolchildren to assist the local council in deciding whether to fluoridate the water and to provide a baseline for future monitoring of changes in caries rates. METHODS All six primary schools in Lithgow were invited to participate, and 653 children aged 6-12 years were clinically exa...

OBJECTIVES This paper collates some of the existing data on the clinical evaluations of resin-modified glass-ionomer cements (RMGICs) since their introduction two decades ago. METHODS The relevant literature was considered and data reviewed under the headings of retention, marginal characteristics, material deterioration, secondary caries, color stability, as well as pulpal and biological eff...

The Global Caries Initiative (GCI), was launched by FDI World Dental Federation in 2009, setting out an ambitious worldwide agenda together with a profession-led call to action, whose goal is ‘to improve oral health through the implementation of a new paradigm for managing dental caries and its consequences, one that is based on our current knowledge of the disease process and its prevention, s...

Aim. To determine the prevalence of dental caries among a representative sample of preschool children (4-5 years old) who were accompanied by their parents to the dental centre of the Arab American University in Jenin whether they come seeking dental treatment or as visitors with adult patients. Materials and Methods. 1376 children of both sexes were investigated by three calibrated and trained...

The aim of this study was to verify the relationship between type of school as a measure of socioeconomic conditions and caries prevalence among preschoolers and schoolchildren in Rio Claro, São Paulo State, Brazil, a city with fluoridated water supply. The data were secondary, from a sample of 888 children 5 to 12 years old enrolled in private and public schools. Caries was measured by the dmf...

BACKGROUND Dental caries remains one of the most common chronic diseases of adolescents. In Australia there have been few epidemiological studies of the caries experience of adolescents with most surveys focusing on children. The New South Wales (NSW) Teen Dental Survey 2010 is the second major survey undertaken by the Centre for Oral Health Strategy. The survey is part of a more systematic and...

Background: Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) is a congenital abnormality that can be risk factor for Early Childhood Caries (ECC). ECC caries occur in children aged 0-71 months. Poor oral hygiene often found CL/P patients due to anatomic defects, treatment devices, and surgical scars facilitate the colonization of Streptococcus mutans Lactobacilli as caries-causing bacteria. This study aims deter...