Demand for dental care in Sri Lanka.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to analyze the role that psychosocial elements may play concerning dental attendance and oral health in children. In particular, we explored the associations among dental fear-related cognitive vulnerability perceptions, dental prevention beliefs, the pattern of dental visits, and the number ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Carrillo-Diaz M,Crego A,Armfield JM,Romero M

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the timing of emergence of permanent teeth in Flanders (Belgium). Data were obtained in the Signal-Tandmobiel projecta, a longitudinal study in a sample of 4468 Flemish children. Survival analysis with a log-logistic distribution was performed to calculate median (and me...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Leroy R,Bogaerts K,Lesaffre E,Declerck D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The debate about mercury and dental amalgam has been one of the longest running in dentistry, and shows no signs of abating. This study aimed to investigate perceptions about mercury in dental fillings among a representative sample of the Australian public. A random sub-sample of participants in a national dental tele...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Thomson WM,Stewart JF,Carter KD,Spencer AJ

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To measure dental caries, erosive tooth wear (ETW), periodontal health, self-reported oral health problems and performance impacts in a representative sample of UK elite athletes from different sports using standardized conditions clearly defined clinical indices and a measure of impact on performance with e...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Gallagher J,Ashley P,Petrie A,Needleman I

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a short-form version of the 29-item Health Literacy in Dentistry (HeLD-29) instrument. METHODS:Deriving the short-form version used data from a cross-sectional study of 400 indigenous Australians aged 18+ years in Port Augusta, South Australia, which was split to enable short-form testing (N = 191...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Jones K,Brennan D,Parker E,Jamieson L

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：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 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：:A study was made of the dental health of a group of 8-year-old children studied earlier as 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds, including examination of caries, gingivitis and occlusion, as well as certain data on oral habits and fluoride prophylaxis. Caries was found in 92% of the children. The mean DMFS-value was 3.1 and the mea...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Holm AK

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to compare the time utilization of the dentist, and productivity and costs for solo (one dentist, one chairside assistant and one treatment room) and extended duty settings (one dentist, two extended duty dental hygienists, one chairside assistant and two treatment rooms). Only amalgam and compos...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Tan HH,van Gemert HG

更新日期：1977-07-01 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：: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：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：:The dental care habits of parents and children as well as the associations of these habits were investigated in a follow-up study conducted in the Southwest of Finland. The background factors of the child's use of night-time juice were also studied. The families of the study were a representative sample of local young...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Paunio P

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：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：OBJECTIVES:To assess the efficacy of a community-based childhood obesity prevention intervention targeting Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption on self-rated oral health among children and their parents/caregivers. METHODS:This study is a secondary analysis of data from a pilot site-randomized intervention (H2 G...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Wang ML,Minyé HM,Egan KA,Heaton B

更新日期：2021-01-03 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：: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:Several studies have focused on the timing of fluoride intake relative to the development of dental fluorosis. This study reports the relationships of fluoride intake during the first 48 months of life with fluorosis on early-erupting permanent teeth. METHODS:Subjects were followed from birth to 48 months w...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Hong L,Levy SM,Broffitt B,Warren JJ,Kanellis MJ,Wefel JS,Dawson DV

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to compare level of dental caries, treatment pattern and contact patterns with the Child Oral Health Care System of children of immigrants. The study comprised 239 Turkish, 117 Pakistani and 91 other immigrants and a control group of 359 Danish children. Data were extracted from the den...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Heidmann J,Christensen LB

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this investigation was to explore the relative importance of psychologic variables in explaining the degree of denture satisfaction in full denture patients. A group of 125 patients who were on a waiting list to have new dentures constructed participated in this study. The patients completed the Dutch versi...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Vervoorn JM,Duinkerke AS,Luteijn F,van de Poel AC

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the age of the subject on inter-examiner reliability of the clinical signs of temporomandibular disorder (TMD). METHODS:Forty-three elderly (ES) and 44 younger adults (YS) were selected. The female/male distribution was almost the same in the two grou...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Hassel AJ,Rammelsberg P,Schmitter M

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:This paper discusses the purposes of collecting epidemiological data on periodontal disease, and concludes that the severe shortcomings of the CPITN makes it unsuited as a tool for assessing the prevalence and severity of periodontal disease. ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Baelum V,Papapanou PN

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation services in general dental practice (dental), general medical practice (GMP), pharmacy and NHS Stop Smoking Services (NHS SSS) from the perspective of the provider and the perspective of the NHS. METHODS:Retrospective monitoring data from NHS Bradford w...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Csikar JI,Douglas GV,Pavitt S,Hulme C

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the impossible result of an increase in the number of teeth present in a quasi-longitudinal study of an adult population. In 1983 and 1994, random samples were drawn from birth cohorts 1939-48 and 1930-38. The paradoxical result that adults acquired new teeth in the quasi-longitudinal study gave r...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Schuller AA,Holst D

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed 5,997 dentists in Ontario to investigate gender differences in the characteristics, infection control practices, knowledge and attitudes regarding the treatment of HIV-infected patients. The response rate was 70.3%. Reports indicated that female dentists are younger and more likely to work in larger urban ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： McCarthy GM,MacDonald JK

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether there is an Appalachian disparity in caries prevalence or extent in children living in Pennsylvania. METHODS:We conducted a cross-sectional clinical assessment of caries in a sample representing 1st, 3rd, 9th, and 11th grade students across Pennsylvania. We used logistic regression and ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Polk DE,Kim S,Manz M,Weyant RJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 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