Oral health screening of elderly people attending a community care centre.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate age- and population-based differences in dentists' infection control practices and willingness and refusal to treat patients with HIV. METHODS:A national mailed survey of a stratified random sample of dentists in Canada (n = 6444) with three follow-up attempts. Pearson's chi-square test and m...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： McCarthy GM,Koval JJ,MacDonald JK,John MA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean scores on five dental anxiety measurements of 60 patients suffering from extreme dental anxiety are compared with those of an equal-sized, matched group of regular dental attenders free from dental anxiety. Four of the measurements, especially Corah's DAS, appear to be suitable for distinguishing persons suff...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

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

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In policy studies, an enduring research question is why some issues are taken seriously while others never become a central focus of policy making. This study aims to analyse the predecision stage of policy making and examines the position of oral health on the broader health policy agenda. METHODS:A study ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Lewis JM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This survey attempted to determine the status of oral cleanliness and gingival health in 150 dental students and 101 faculty members in a dental school. Without advance notice, plaque deposits were scored, using the Plaque Index System, and gingival health was determined using the criteria of the Gingival Index System...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Lang NP,Cumming BR,Löe HA

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Associations between dental conditions and overall health have been previously reported. Investigators have also shown significant inverse relationships between serum albumin (a general health status marker) and root caries. This relationship was explored among a study population of Gullah African Americans ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Marlow NM,Slate EH,Bandyopadhyay D,Fernandes JK,Salinas CF

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To use recent national survey data to compare dentition status and oral diseases in China and New Zealand (NZ), with a particular focus on differences by sex and education level. METHODS:We undertook secondary analysis of representative data from oral health surveys conducted in 2009 in Sichuan (China) and ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： He S,Thomson WM

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Temporal trends of caries frequency in 6-17-year-old children in Finland and its counties during 1975-79 are reported. Initially the attendance rate was 70%: during the 4-year follow-up it increased to 84%. The cross-sectional annual proportion of children needing curative treatment diminished from 80% to 67% at the a...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Hausen H,Milen A,Tala H,Nordling H,Paunio I,Heinonen OP

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to obtain up-to-date information on periodontal disease and oral hygiene status in Israel among 9th to 12th grade non-blind students and among the inmates of six schools for the blind aged 14--17 years. 460 sighted and 434 blind students participated in the study. The examination w...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Anaise JZ

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the rate and associations of interproximal carious lesion progression. METHODS:Retrospective data were analysed from 125 young adults (age range: 18-29 years) with repeated bitewing radiographs collected over a 6-year period. Participants were submitted to different protocols of radiographic e...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Phillips M,Bernabé E,Mustakis A

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between the prevalence of cavitated dental caries and oral health literacy (OHL), family characteristics and sociodemographic factors in early adolescence. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was conducted with 740 twelve-year-old students. The students' gua...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Neves ÉTB,Dutra LDC,Gomes MC,Paiva SM,de Abreu MHNG,Ferreira FM,Granville-Garcia AF

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This survey investigated the reasons why general dental practitioners take radiographs. 179 (54%) dentists responded and provided information for 2359 patients who were radiographed during a specified week. Of those patients aged less than 15 yr, 62% were radiographed primarily for orthodontic purposes and 22% for car...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Osman F,Scully C,Dowell TB,Davies RM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the study were to determine what according to lay people and dentists in the Kuopio and North Karelia provinces of Finland characterizes the ideal dentist and the ideal patient and to develop a proper questionnaire for further studies in dentist-patient relationship. A questionnaire containing 124, five-cl...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Lahti S,Tuutti H,Hausen H,Kääriäinen R

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Responsibility weights can translate services into a common scale of work effort (relative value units). The aims were to describe the responsibility weights for main areas of dental services and assess associations of ratings of the importance of the components of responsibility with responsibility weights....

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Brennan DS,Ju X,Teusner DN

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to investigate the attitudes among dentists and dental hygienists to the policy objective in Norway of delegating more dental work from dentists to dental hygienists. METHOD:A questionnaire was mailed to a random sample of 1111 dentists and 268 dental hygienists in 2005. The response...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Abelsen B,Olsen JA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Few reports have investigated caries prevalence in rural areas of Brazil. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to observe the caries prevalence (DMFT, DMFS) in 12-year-old children living in rural villages of Paraíba, Brazil with low and moderate fluoride levels in the drinking water and to relate it to suga...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Sampaio FC,Hossain AN,von der Fehr FR,Arneberg P

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to review the concepts of risk as we use them today in dental public health practice, and to suggest that we should broaden our view of risk. Use of terms like risk factor in the literature can be quite vague, and it is recommended that a clear definition of that and related terms be adher...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Burt BA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that fluoride is present in beverages prepared with fluoridated water. The purpose of this study was to determine the availability of fluoride from beverages consumed in adjacent fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities taking into account fluoride supplementation regimens. Children in g...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Clovis J,Hargreaves JA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system of diagnosing occlusal caries from bitewing radiographs was developed in an attempt to overcome the problems of clinical diagnosis found in other studies. Standardised bitewing radiographs for 1172 Berkshire schoolchildren aged 11-13 years who were participating in a toothpaste trial, were assessed for occlus...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： King NM,Shaw L

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of defined levels of oral hygiene and dietary habits for predicting caries was investigated. The material comprised 143 3-yr-olds. Three levels of oral hygiene and dietary habits, respectively, were used. Oral hygiene was registered as gingival status. Dietary habits were recorded by interview. Two groups we...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Schröder U,Granath L

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the presence of malocclusion and maintenance of teeth in adulthood was studied in a randomly drawn sample of 499 35-44-yr-old Danes. Maintenance of teeth in the past was expressed through the number of teeth present, attachment level and information of regularity of dental visits. Maintenance ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Hörup N,Melsen B,Terp S

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This work proposes a revision of the 30 item Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Dentistry (REALD-30), into a more efficient and easier-to-use two-stage scale. METHODS:Using a sample of 1405 individuals (primarily women) enrolled in a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (W...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Stucky BD,Lee JY,Lee SY,Rozier RG

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge and beliefs about periodontal disease of 1093 regularly attending patients in 36 North Carolina general dental practices were examined. Patients had a strong positive orientation toward keeping their teeth. Correct information concerning the signs, causes, prevention, and treatment of periodontal disease...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Bader JD,Rozier RG,McFall WT,Ramsey DL

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the investigation was to compare the caries prevalence (DMF-T) among 762 7th grade children, of whom one-half had never received school dental care. The children were grouped according to social status in order to see if there was any difference in the caries prevalence between the social groups. The ca...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Holst D

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the degree of fluorosis in the primary dentition and the accompanying caries patterns in groups of preschool-children in high and low fluoride areas. Among 331 coloured children, aged 1-5 years, living in an area with water F concentrations ranging from 2.2 to 4.1 parts/10(6), 82...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： McInnes PM,Richardson BD,Cleaton-Jones PE

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00