BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Although preventive dental visits are considered important for maintaining pediatric oral health, there is relatively little research showing that they reduce subsequent nonpreventive dental visits or costs. At least 1 study seemed to find that early preventive dental care is associated with more restorative and emergency visits. Previous studies are limited by their i...

dental status may influence food intake. the aim of this review was to summarize the earlier investigations on the association between food intake and dental status. we searched the electronic databases of pubmed and the cochrane library for articles published until 30 february, 2012. to reach the related published articles, medical subject heading (mesh) terms of ‘oral health,’ ‘masticatory pe...

BACKGROUND Oral health plays a vital role in people's general health and well-being. With regard to the costly treatments of oral diseases, preventive programs need to be designed for dental caries based on children's perspectives. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to describe and explore challenges for caring dental health based on children's perspectives. PATIENTS AND METHODS A qua...

As dental education across the United States undergoes growth and change in an effort to improve access to dental care, one dental school, the Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health, established in 2003, designed its initial curriculum with innovation in mind. One of those innovations was the introduction of an online certificate in public health that can be used as the foundation for a Mast...

PURPOSE The Lumbee tribe, North Carolina's largest American Indian tribe, is located in Robeson County, where there is an access to dental care crisis. There is a high incidence of systemic diseases, including coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes. The tribe also has a higher rate of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared to Caucasian populations. There is little information available regardin...

Contributors: 1Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India; 2Post-graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Correspondence: Dr. Rushabh J. Dagli, Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Email: r.j...

Obesity has been associated with several chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, adverse pregnancy outcomes, diabetes, and mortality; however it has not been until recently that an increased body mass index (BMI) was also related to dental health, especially periodontitis. We conducted a research to determine whether oral health was related to BMI using a cross-sectional desig...

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...

OBJECTIVES To document the trends in expenditures on dental health care services and the number of dental health care professionals in Canada from 1990 to 1999. METHODS Information on dental and health expenditures, numbers of dentists, hygienists and dental therapists, and the population of Canada and the provinces were obtained from the Canadian Institute for Health Information; data on num...

A new information system was used routinely to monitor clinical dental services. Data on 20,729 courses of treatment support the validity and usefulness of continuously collected information about dental health status. Patients who had not attended a community clinic within the year before examination did not need courses of treatment that differed appreciably from those for patients who had at...