Lifestyle, dental caries and number of teeth.

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：: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：: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 investigate the prevalence and incidence of dental erosion in children and adolescents. METHODS:Lesions were registered for all tooth surfaces of primary and permanent teeth using pre-orthodontic study models. A total of 1,000 individuals (mean age 11.4+/-3.3 years) were included; 265 of them were followe...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Ganss C,Klimek J,Giese K

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of germinated and fused primary teeth was studied in a sample of 1141 Finnish children aged 3-4 years. The prevalence was 0.7%. All the joined teeth were found in the anterior area of the mouth. In seven cases the diagnosis was a fusion of two separate teeth, and in one case it was a germination of a sin...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Järvinen S,Lehtinen L,Milén A

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：:The DMFT Index, degree of fluorosis (DEGF), and enamel fluoride concentration (F) were determined in 88 children living in a high- and 79 children living in a low-fluoride area in South Africa. The following interrelationships between these parameters were found: in both areas there was a significant negative correlat...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： van der Merwe EH,Bischoff JI,Fatti LP,Retief DH,Barbakow FH,Friedman M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to present normative data on dental fear for the Dutch child population, by identifying not only highly fearful children but also children at risk for developing this high dental fear. METHODS:Fear distribution of samples of high and low fearful children was studied, using the Dutch parent's...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： ten Berge M,Veerkamp JS,Hoogstraten J,Prins PJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dental needs, demands and patterns of service utilization were assessed in a randomly selected sample of 750 subjects attending the Dental Faculty, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Toothache accounted for the most frequent overall dental complaint. However, the most common motives for seeking dental care varied...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Razak IA,Jaafar N

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Future treatment needs for dental services are discussed in the perspective of the objective which the services are meant to fulfill. These are, broadly speaking, equal distribution of services and economic efficiency. Within the Nordic countries, the emphasis has been on equity, perhaps less on efficiency. Equity of ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Holst D,Schuller A,Grytten J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of periodontal disease and overhanging approximal amalgam restorations in molars and premolars was registered in a clinical and radiographic examination of Norwegian adults (born 1959). A random sample of 250 persons was drawn from the populations of two neighboring towns where the Public Dental Service...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Lervik T,Riordan PJ,Haugejorden O

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of edentulousness, reasons for full clearance, and clinical status before extractions were studied in a longitudinal setting in 47 rural communities in Finland. The annual incidence of total loss of teeth was 50/100,000 inhabitants and loss of maxillary teeth 20/100,000 inhabitants. The rates were about twic...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Takala L,Utriainen P,Alanen P

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the role of partial recording protocols (PRPs) in reporting prevalence and severity of dental fluorosis and assess whether prevalence/severity estimates derived from PRPs differ by race/ethnicity. METHODS:Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for the years 1999-...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Akinkugbe A,Iafolla T,Chattopadhyay A,Garcia I,Adams A,Kingman A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate ethnic-specific deprivation gradients in early childhood dental caries experience considering different domains of deprivation. METHODS:We used cross-sectional near whole population-level data on 318 321 four-year-olds attending the "B4 School check," a national health and development check i...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Shackleton N,Broadbent JM,Thornley S,Milne BJ,Crengle S,Exeter DJ

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：: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：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：: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：: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: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：OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this study was to investigate the impact of reduced sugar consumption on caries experience among 12-year-old Libyan schoolchildren during the Libyan conflict, in comparison to preconflict data collected in the same water-fluoridated setting from a similar age group. A further aim was to in...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Arheiam AA,Harris RV,Baker SR

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:The demand for dental care was assessed among 3000 dental patients visiting an out-patient clinic in Sri Lanka. 46% of the patients sought treatment for complaints related to advanced stages of dental caries whilst 18% requested treatment for early stages of decay. 20% had complaints related to periodontal disease of ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Warnakulasuriya S

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to measure total intake, urinary excretion and estimated retention of fluoride in children under customary fluoride intake conditions, living in either fluoridated or low-fluoride areas of north-east England. Subsidiary aims were to investigate the relationships between the variables ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Maguire A,Zohouri FV,Hindmarch PN,Hatts J,Moynihan PJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Recently qualified dentists from a dental school in Stockholm, Sweden (n = 259) and the dental school in Kuopio, Finland (n = 103) were sent a questionnaire designed to obtain information concerning the perceived relevance of their undergraduate education to the practice of dentistry. The response rate was 71% for Sto...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Widström E,Martinsson T,Nilsson B

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This paper compares the performance of the GOHAI and the OHIP-14 as measures of the oral health-related quality of life of the compromised elderly. METHODS:Data were obtained from a cross-sectional survey of 225 participants, most of whom lived in a large geriatric care centre. RESULTS:The mean age of subj...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Locker D,Matear D,Stephens M,Lawrence H,Payne B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential for the increased risk of transmission of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) from patients to dental health care workers (DHCWs) in the workplace is examined. Based on published and hypothetical risk estimates, the authors conclude that in certain world communities with high prevalence rates of HIV infec...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Morris RE,Turgut E

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a pressing need for a reliable, low-cost method of assessing the gingival and periodontal status of large population groups. Existing indexes, despite their value in dental public health, are still too subject to examiner variability for use by uncalibrated examiners. This study describes an evaluation of a q...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Burt BA,Roder DM,Cecil JC,Eklund SA

更新日期：1978-11-01 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