Dental clinic attendance in Soweto, South Africa, before and after the introduction of free primary dental health services.

abstract：:This investigation examines the incidence of phenytoin-induced gingival overgrowth in a population of epileptic patients who attend General Medical Practices for treatment of their epilepsy and compares the gingival changes with an otherwise healthy group of patients. The plaque score, gingival index, and gingival ove...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Thomason JM,Seymour RA,Rawlins MD

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate causal pathways among as well as interrelationships between changes in dental fear and dental attendance in a nationally representative sample of adult Finns aged 19 years or older in 2000, with 11 years of follow-up. METHODS:Data from the Health 2000 an...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Liinavuori A,Tolvanen M,Pohjola V,Lahti S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to propose a method that could be used to distinguish significantly different dental treatment-need groups, to assist in planning more appropriate preventive dental health programmes than are now generally available. This involved the use of alternative new measures of dental status in conjun...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Maizels J,Maizels A,Sheiham A

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the impact of developmental defects of enamel (DDE) on young people, through their experiences of the condition and it's meaning to their everyday lives. METHODS:The theoretical framework chosen to guide the study was symbolic interactionism. Qualitative interviews with a purposive sample of peop...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Marshman Z,Gibson B,Robinson PG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Since 1999, the public dental health service (PDHS) in the county of Värmland, Sweden, has two co-existing patient financial systems, i.e. ways for the patient to pay for dental care services. Alongside the traditional system of fee-for-service payment, i.e. paying afterwards for provided services, a new sys...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Johansson V,Axtelius B,Söderfeldt B,Sampogna F,Paulander J,Sondell K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to characterize the association between clinical and psychosocial factors as they related to perceptions by parents and adolescents to the adolescent's oral health status and treatment need. Additionally, the degree to which adolescent's and parent's perceptions of oral health and tr...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Weyant RJ,Manz M,Corby P,Rustveld L,Close J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore distribution of stage at diagnosis and relative survival rates among US adults with oral cavity cancer in relation to race, and over time. METHODS:We obtained 1973-2002 oral cancer incidence data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, and computed proportions for eac...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Shiboski CH,Schmidt BL,Jordan RC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This commentary explains and exemplifies a method to estimate the Odds Ratio-OR with a correction for possible errors in diagnosis. This procedure allows reassessing hypotheses of association between health outcomes and exposures when the database entails lack of accuracy, and the estimates of sensitivity and specific...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Antunes JLF

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of water and salt community-based fluoridation methods on caries experience among schoolchildren. METHODS:Data derived from two population-based oral health surveys of 12-year-old schoolchildren exposed to different community-based fluoridation methods were compared: artificially...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Fabruccini A,Alves LS,Alvarez L,Alvarez R,Susin C,Maltz M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade, many studies in Europe and North America have evaluated oral conditions and dental needs in the elderly. Similar information does not exist in Brazil. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of oral health and disease in elderly persons living in an institution in the city of Pira...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Jorge Júnior J,de Almeida OP,Bozzo L,Scully C,Graner E

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveys are projects involving systematic data collection without a specific hypothesis to be tested and hence without a specific research design. This paper reviews their uses, and some of the issues involved with measuring dental caries in surveys. The principal benefits of surveys are in (a) monitoring trends in or...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Burt BA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:With the decrease in dental caries prevalence, public health should place emphasis on other dental diseases. Dental trauma is an irreversible pathology which after occurrence is characterized by life-long debilitating effects. OBJECTIVES:To measure the prevalence of trauma in anterior permanent teeth among ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Sgan-Cohen HD,Megnagi G,Jacobi Y

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A socio-dental survey was carried out to determine the level of dental disease and treatment requirement among elderly people attending a Community Care Centre. A screening programme involving 293 elderly people demonstrated a normative need of 82% and a felt need of 53%. Seventy-six per cent would have benefited from...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Diu S,Gelbier S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Identify predictive variables related to the development and continuation of high dental anxiety among young people over 2 years and assess differences between youth experiencing increased, decreased or unchanged dental anxiety scores over time. METHODS:An observational panel study of 15- to 21-year-old peop...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Nermo H,Willumsen T,Johnsen JK

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the annual congresses of the Norwegian Dental Association in 1986 and 1987 surveys were conducted to assess the significance of potential sources of mercury exposure. Morning urine samples and questionnaires were collected from 672 participants in 1986 and 273 participants in 1987. The mean values of the urinary me...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Jokstad A

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this epidemiologic study was to determine the impact of smoking on marginal bone loss in a subsample derived from an original randomly selected adult sample, after adjusting for oral and general factors. METHODS:The number of participants at baseline in this 10-year longitudinal study was 616 (me...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Bahrami G,Vaeth M,Kirkevang LL,Wenzel A,Isidor F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a per capita based remuneration system on the quality of dental care. METHODS:The basis for the study was a natural experiment in the county of Østfold in Norway in which all public dental officers (n = 34) were given the opportunity to renegotiate their c...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Grytten J,Holst D,Skau I

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A cross-sectional study was conducted to compare a visual dental examination method developed by the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry with assessment of intra-oral photographs as means of detecting dental caries in 5-year-olds and 10- to 11-year-olds. METHOD:130 5-year-olds and 140 1...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Boye U,Willasey A,Walsh T,Tickle M,Pretty IA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Oral health has traditionally been defined in terms of disease. Today, health is seen in a wider context: taking into account its impact on everyday living. Several indices attempt to capture this dimension. The Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI) has been adapted for general use and tested on adu...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Tubert-Jeannin S,Riordan PJ,Morel-Papernot A,Porcheray S,Saby-Collet S

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 1287 patients completed a questionnaire assessing knowledge of home care procedures, adherence to home care instructions, obstacles presented to the dentist in delivering care, and ability to pay for optimal care. Ninety-seven dentists that provided treatment for these patients completed a parallel ques...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Weinstein P,Milgrom P,Ratener P,Morrison K

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Based on Andersen's healthcare utilization model, the present study examined factors associated with dental service use in older Korean Americans. Focus was on predisposing characteristics (age, gender, marital status, education and region), oral health needs (problems with teeth or gums and self-rated oral ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Jang Y,Yoon H,Rhee MK,Park NS,Chiriboga DA,Kim MT

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypothesis was developed that the impact or importance of oral health problems may be reflected in a person's ability to remember these problems occurring in a given period spontaneously. That means that the recollection should occur on a nonspecific stimulant, i.e. a general question regarding recall of health prob...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Westert GP,Oosterhaven SP,Schaub RM

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the discriminative ability of the Generic and Condition-Specific forms of the Child-OIDP index on groups defined by their normative treatment need for dental caries, periodontal disease, malocclusion and traumatic dental injuries. METHODS:All 1034 11-12-year-old children were included from all the...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Bernabé E,Krisdapong S,Sheiham A,Tsakos G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the personal utility of asymptomatic third molar removal in military patients. From 1 to 30 days (mean = 7.4) after the extraction of one or more third molars, 100 returning patients (all male, mean age = 20.1) were asked to respond to hypothetical questions concerning the ex...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Cohen ME,Arthur JS,Rodden JW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of tongue lesions in a district population, in Budapest, called regularly for X-ray lung examinations. Oral examinations of 7820 individuals were performed, 42% were over 60 yr of age, 42.9% were men and 57.1% women. Tongue alterations were found in 18.52% of the exami...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Bánóczy J,Rigó O,Albrecht M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a validating process, tests and indices for dysfunction of the temporomandibular joints and masticatory muscles were compared and correlated in 211 persons with an almost complete or complete natural dentition. Helkimo's Clinical Dysfunction Index (CDI), the Mandibular Dysfunction Symptoms (MDS) scale from ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Duinkerke AS,Luteijn F,Bouman TK,de Jong HP

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the spring of 1996, foods and beverages most commonly consumed by adolescents were analyzed for fluoride as part of a larger investigation. These foods were selected by interviewing 711 adolescents, 12-14 years of age, who were long-time residents of either an optimally or negligibly fluoridated community. The bran...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Jackson RD,Brizendine EJ,Kelly SA,Hinesley R,Stookey GK,Dunipace AJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) started in 1999 to identify environmental factors that could be involved in mechanisms leading to disease. Questions have been raised about potential risks to the fetus from prenatal exposure to mercury from amalgam fillings in pregnant women. The aim of the...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Lygre GB,Björkman L,Haug K,Skjaerven R,Helland V

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate satisfaction with dental care received at the last dental appointment among adolescents and to analyse factors influencing their satisfaction scores. METHOD:A total of 1146 subjects (mean age 15.8 years) attending secondary schools in Kampala (urban, n = 591) and Lira (rural, n = 555) complete...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Okullo I,Astrøm AN,Haugejorden O

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Demarcated opacities in permanent first molars are common developmental tooth defects, characterized by areas with insufficient mineralization of the enamel. The defects present clinically as a continuum from creamy-white demarcated opacities, yellowish-brown demarcated opacities to macroscopic loss of tooth...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Wogelius P,Haubek D,Nechifor A,Nørgaard M,Tvedebrink T,Poulsen S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00