Tooth loss, chewing habits, and food choices among older Nigerians in Plateau State: a preliminary study.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether subjective oral symptoms were associated with self-rated oral health after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and dentition status in 4 different Indigenous peoples from Central-West Brazil. METHODS:A population-based cross-sectional study of oral health was conducted betw...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Arantes R,Frazão P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etiological models that predominantly emphasize current adult life styles, such as smoking, diet and lack of exercise have recently been seriously challenged by a growing body of evidence that disturbed early growth and development, childhood infection, poor nutrition, and social and psychosocial disadvantage across t...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Nicolau B,Thomson WM,Steele JG,Allison PJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effects of using an intra-oral camera (IOC) during supportive periodontal therapy (SPT), on the psychological, behavioral, and clinical parameters of patients with gingivitis, outlined by evidence and a theory-based framework. METHODS:A group of 78 adult patients with gingivitis receiving an...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Araújo MR,Alvarez MJ,Godinho CA,Pereira C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Questionnaires have been used to determine the point when dentists think a filling ought to be placed (restorative treatment threshold). This study assesses the method. 211 general dental practitioners were interviewed and asked to identify the point at which they would instigate restorative treatment in a 12-yr-old p...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Nuttall NM,Pitts NB,Fyffe HE

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although oral health (OH) problems are common during pregnancy, little is known about individual characteristics or behaviors relating to clinically assessed OH during pregnancy. This cross-sectional study describes the clinical OH status of a sample of pregnant women, examines relationships between sociodem...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Chung LH,Gregorich SE,Armitage GC,Gonzalez-Vargas J,Adams SH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overjet values were studied in a stratified convenience sample of 820 Nigerians aged 15, 19, 20 and 21 years from Lagos educational establishments. There was no indication that between 15 and 21 years of age overjet values were age or sex dependent. The mean overjet value, which is one indication of antero-posterior o...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Akpata ES,Jackson D

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of 2,138 subjects, aged 15-65+ years, was carried out by calibrated examiners using mirrors and fibre optic illumination. Each subject was scored by the Periodontal Status Index, PSI (WHO Oral Health Surveys), Periodontal Index, PI (Russell) and the Oral Hygiene Index, OHI (Greene & Vermillion). For the PS...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Cutress TW,Hunter PB,Beck DJ,de Souza P

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Tooth retention has improved over the past few decades, but it is not known whether these trends have been observed across all demographic/socioeconomic subgroups. We examined number of missing teeth among dentate individuals (n = 9,113) as well as edentulism and systematically modeled their trends over time...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Wu B,Hybels C,Liang J,Landerman L,Plassman B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We assessed how socioeconomic and clinical conditions could affect parents' perceptions of their child's oral health. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was conducted in a sample of 455 children, aged 1-5 years, representative of Santa Maria, a southern city in Brazil. Participants were randomly selected among...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Piovesan C,Marquezan M,Kramer PF,Bönecker M,Ardenghi TM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between signs and symptoms of mandibular dysfunction was studied in 285 17-yr-old adolescents living in the municipality of Skellefteå, Sweden. Of the sample 62% had either some sign or symptom of dysfunction, and there was a positive correlation (P less than 0.05) between the two indices used. Neithe...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Wänman A,Agerberg G

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to establish the relationships between dental anxiety and personality traits, such as neuroticism and locus of control, a survey has been carried out among 30-40-yr-olds in a Dutch town. In the first instance, the questionnaires comprising the psychologic items were treated by Non-Metric Principal Compon...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Schuurs AH,Duivenvoorden HJ,Thoden van Velzen SK,Verhage F,Makkes PC,Eijkman MA

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year clinical trial was conducted using an adolescent population from a low-fluoride area to evaluate the anticaries effect of self-applications of zirconium silicate paste containing 9% stannous fluoride. tthree study groups totaling 464 children, with an initial average of 12.8 years, completed the study. The co...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Fleming WJ,Burgess RC,Lewis DW

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding socially relevant attitudes to fluorosis and dental caries is important. Previous studies have concentrated mainly on aesthetic implications. AIMS:To investigate social judgements beyond the aesthetic, made when viewing digitally manipulated extraoral images of dental fluorosis of varying degr...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Williams DM,Chestnutt IG,Bennett PD,Hood K,Lowe R,Heard P

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In ancient and medieval times, the prevalence of caries and periodontal disease varied. There were no treatments for dental hard tissue, but dental cosmetics played an important role. In the late 19th century, caries levels reached a maximum in Europe and North America after refined sugar became a cheap staple food. T...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Marthaler TM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis was assessed in 1739 Singaporean children aged 9, 12 and 16 yr in three different ethnic groups. All subjects had resided since birth in Singapore, which has a tropical climate. The water supply was fluoridated in 1957 at a level of 0.7 ppm. In this sample, mouth prevalence ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Lo GL,Bagramian RA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study is to collect information on the reasons given by dentists, randomly selected from the Italian Dental and Maxillo-Facial Association's, for extracting permanent teeth in Italy. From the 164 dentists responding, 1056 teeth in 839 patients were extracted during two weeks of working activity. Mor...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Angelillo IF,Nobile CG,Pavia M

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-three percent of the 300 employees of a paper mill in central-eastern Finland answered a questionnaire in the context of a clinical dental survey. One third had visited the dentist annually, 22% once in 2 years and the rest irregularly. Dental visit frequency of females was somewhat higher than that of males. P...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Rajala AL,Rajala M,Paunio I

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of infraocclusion of primary molars was studied in 1059 Swedish children aged 3-12 years with an even distribution between the age groups. No extractions were performed due to infraocclusion. 94 children (8.9%) showed infraocclusion of primary molars. Infraocclusion was found from 3 years of age. The pr...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Kurol J

更新日期：1981-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and periodontal disease are two highly prevalent, directly and independently associated long-term conditions that disproportionately impact Indigenous Māori in New Zealand (NZ). Although poorly understood, a number of social and biological mechanisms connect these conditions. ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Reid J,Koopu P,Burkhardt N,Stewart T,Anderson A,Harwood M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the risk indicators for root caries in institutionalized elders. METHODS:Nonfrail elders living in 21 residential elderly homes who had at least 5 teeth with exposed roots were examined in this cross-sectional study. The dental examinations were conducted by one trained dentist in the elderly ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Tan HP,Lo EC

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the available information on the rate of caries progression comes from studies in which two examinations have been done and the percentage of lesions that do not progress from a carious state between the examinations recorded. Extrapolation from this type of study is subject to two offsetting biases. On the on...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Shwartz M,Pliskin JS,Gröndahl HG,Boffa J

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in human subjects should be conducted only if the rights and welfare of the participants are protected. Prospective study subjects must be given adequate information about all aspects of a study so that they can make a rationally exercised decision about participation; coercive techniques to solicit participa...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Horowitz HS

更新日期：1977-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a Portuguese language version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire for 11-14-year-olds (CPQ(11-14)) showed differential item functioning (DIF) when compared with the original English language version. METHODS:CPQ(11-14) data from a school-based Brazilian study (n = 138) was compared wi...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Traebert J,de Lacerda JT,Thomson WM,Page LF,Locker D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The epidemiology of periodontitis regarding oral-hygiene practices particularly the frequency of tooth brushing has been the subject of relatively few dedicated studies. This paper provides a systematic review of available relevant epidemiological studies and a meta-analysis of the effect of tooth brushing f...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Zimmermann H,Zimmermann N,Hagenfeld D,Veile A,Kim TS,Becher H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate a voice operated data collection system intended for use in epidemiological surveys. Three groups of 45 adolescents, with similar caries experience, were examined by one examiner in schools. The caries data resulting from these examinations were collected in three ways; keyboard a...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Hawley GM,Hamilton FA,Worthington HV

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caries status of 1784 children aged 7 to 10 years was examined in a cross-sectional, epidemiological study in the Rhine-Neckar-District. Results showed that 30.5% of the children had caries-free primary and 65.2% had caries-free permanent teeth. The d(m)ft index was 2.68, and the D(M)FT averaged 0.76. As in previo...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Zerfowski M,Koch MJ,Niekusch U,Staehle HJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been conducted to assess the prevalence of oral soft tissue lesions. In cooperation with the public health screening organization of the County of Uppsala in Sweden, all inhabitants older than 14 years of age in two communities, Håbo and Enköping, will be called for examination. So far, 8,696 individuals h...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Axéll T

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a non-linear, multivariate analysis, the resistance against admitting to being dentally anxious was studied. Dental anxiety was found to be repressed by a subgroup, among them more men than women, of a sample, who also repressed the feeling of low self esteem about tooth loss. Based on the results, regular and i...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Duivenvoorden HJ,Schuurs AH,Thoden van Velzen SK,Verhage F,Makkes PC,Eijkman MA

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00