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abstract：:The caries prevalence (dmft) and severity (css) in 3-, 4-, and 5-yr-old children in South Africa were examined. Four levels of S. mutans in the saliva of 228 of these children was estimated by the spatula method. In all three age groups a statistically higher dmft and css was found with a S. mutans level of greater th...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Chosack A,Cleaton-Jones P,Woods A,Matejka J

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of older people continues to grow worldwide, especially in developing countries. Non-communicable diseases are fast becoming the leading causes of disability and mortality, and in coming decades health and social policy-makers will face tremendous challenges posed by the rapidly changing burden of chron...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Petersen PE,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to assess the impact of the presence of initial and other stages of dental caries on the impairment of oral health-related quality of life in preschool children (COHRQoL) through a cohort study. METHODS:During an epidemiological survey, 478 children (12-59 months old) were examined for dental carie...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Guedes RS,Ardenghi TM,Piovesan C,Emmanuelli B,Mendes FM

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first-year consequences of national dental insurance, introduced in Sweden in 1974, are examined here from the point of view of social justice. The concept of equity of access in medical care is discussed. In a local survey, a comparison is made between use of dental services in 1972, 1973, and 1974. The results i...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Barenthin I

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,159 children (612 girls and 547 boys) aged 11-12 years were examined to determine the range and mean overjet values in four defined upper lip-maxillary central incisor relationships. No clinically significant differences were found on comparison of the data relative to each upper lip position. The findings suggest t...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Haynes S

更新日期：1977-03-01 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：:All 55-yr-old citizens (n = 1012) of Oulu (a middle-sized Finnish town) were invited to a clinical examination; 780 agreed to participate. The associations of lifestyle with decayed tooth surfaces and the number of teeth were studied in the 533 dentate subjects. Measures of lifestyle included dietary habits, a smoking...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Sakki TK,Knuuttila ML,Vimpari SS,Kivelä SL

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the severity of dental caries in South American Indigenous peoples. METHODS:A systematic review was conducted regarding the severity of dental caries in South American Indigenous peoples using the following electronic databases: MEDLINE/PubMed, SCOPUS, SciELO, LILACS and grey literature up to M...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Soares GH,Pereira NF,Biazevic MGH,Braga MM,Michel-Crosato E

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An innovative approach for the early detection of oral cancer and precancer within the context of the primary health care system has been field tested in Sri Lanka. The overall compliance in accepting this particular PHC approach for cancer screening, as estimated by arrival at a referral centre manned by consultant s...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Warnakulasuriya S,Ekanayake A,Stjernsward J,Pindborg JJ,Sivayoham S

更新日期：1988-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between socioeconomic position and periodontal diseases among adolescents. METHODS:Data were obtained from 9203 Chilean high school students. Clinical examinations included direct recordings of clinical attachment level and the necrotizing ulcerative gingival lesions. Students ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： López R,Fernández O,Baelum V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to characterize trajectories of intergeneration mobility from birth to age 33 years and to assess the influence of these trajectories on adult oral health. METHODS:Repeated data on occupational social class (birth and 7, 11, 16, 23 and 33 years) and two subjective oral health indicators (li...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Delgado-Angulo EK,Bernabé E

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The study assessed the time until first dental caries for young children seen at five Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in Iowa and the relationship with the frequency and gaps (in months) of dental episodes, the number of topical fluoride treatments, and the number of dentists caring for the subject...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Kuthy RA,Jones M,Kavand G,Momany E,Askelson N,Chi D,Wehby G,Damiano P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe early childhood caries (ECC) patterns and evaluate the associations with maternal caries experience and other factors. METHODS:A secondary analysis was undertaken using data from the Study of Mothers' and Infants' Life Events Affecting Oral Health (SMILE), a population-based birth cohort study. I...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Hariyani N,Do LG,Spencer AJ,Thomson WM,Scott JA,Ha DH

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to update our knowledge about the relation between sugar consumption and dental caries in nations throughout the world. Data on the prevalence of dental caries for 6- and 12-year-old children in, respectively, 23 and 47 nations were obtained from the World Health Organization's Global Oral Epi...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Sreebny LM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a field study (1979-1984) four out of six major hilltribes of Northern Thailand, namely the Lahu, Karen, Lisu and Meo, as well as a group of rural Thai, were examined. Chewing, smoking and drinking habits and lesions of the oral mucosa (leukoedema, preleukoplakia, leukoplakia and chewer's mucosa) were recorded. 186...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Reichart PA,Mohr U,Srisuwan S,Geerlings H,Theetranont C,Kangwanpong T

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate time trends in primary reasons for extraction of permanent teeth in Norway from 1968 to 1988. Johansen studied reasons for extraction of 8757 teeth in 4216 patients during a 3-week period in 1968. Twenty years later a random sample of 500 Norwegian dentists provided ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Klock KS,Haugejorden O

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify how to translate dental public health surveillance and broader research into policy and practice. METHODS:Via a literature review to identify both the potential uses of surveillance data and key elements in the policy making process. Then through a consideration of Australian dental public healt...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Rogers J

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to analyze whether perceived bruxism was associated with stress experience, age, gender, work role, and occupational health care use among a nonpatient multiprofessional population. Altogether, 1784 (age 30-55 years) employees of the Finnish Broadcasting Company were mailed a self-administered...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Ahlberg J,Rantala M,Savolainen A,Suvinen T,Nissinen M,Sarna S,Lindholm H,Könönen M

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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 oral status of an adult population of 204 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was compared with that of an age and sex-matched random sample of non-rheumatic subjects. The percentage of edentulous subjects, number of existing teeth in dentate subjects, prevalence, and quality of fixed and removable prostheses ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Laurell L,Hugoson A,Håkansson J,Pettersson B,Sjöström L,Berglöf FE,Berglöf K

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Clinical patterns of early childhood caries (ECC) encompassing specific teeth or surfaces have been previously proposed on an a priori basis and have been used as case definitions. The underlying assumption is that the patterns result from different host response and environmental conditions. Identifying cari...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Psoter WJ,Zhang H,Pendrys DG,Morse DE,Mayne ST

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim was to assess the role of visit history factors between the age of 13 and 30 years on oral health-related impact. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In 1988-89, n=7,673 South Australian school children aged 13 years were sampled with n=4,604 children (60.0%) and n=4,476 parents (58.3%) returning questionnaires. ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Brennan DS,Spencer AJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of concern about dental health contributes significantly to the reluctance of people to attend for dental check-ups and to implement preventive dental measures. The aim of this study was to develop and assess a questionnaire method of detecting this attitude which was described as dental indifference. The questio...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Nuttall NM

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriologic and clinical studies suggest that sealants can be used therapeutically on incipient caries of the enamel. The present study was designed to explore this approach further by determining whether there is a difference in retention rates on sound or carious tooth surfaces sealed for the first time as well as...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Handelman SL,Leverett DH,Espeland M,Curzon J

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the study were to examine the knowledge of occupational hazards from blood-borne viruses, and practices related to cross-infection control in Brazil, by a survey of 947 Brazilian dental practitioners at a National Dental Congress in January 1990. Over 80% were aware that hepatitis B virus can be present in...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： de Almeida OP,Scully C,Jorges J

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fluoride was first added to the Australian water supply in 1953, and by 2003, 69% of Australia's population was receiving the minimum recommended dose. Extending coverage of fluoridation to all remaining communities of at least 1000 people is a key strategy of Australia's National Oral Health Plan 2004-2013. ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Cobiac LJ,Vos T

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00