abstract：OBJECTIVE:Variation in dental service provision over time has been related to changes in factors such as oral health and demographics. Dentist factors such as age and cohort effects are also potential sources of influence. The aim of the study was to examine the operation of age, period, and cohort factors on variation...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Brennan DS,Ryan P,Spencer AJ,Szuster FS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the dental caries and treatment experience of groups of adults from minority ethnic communities living in the South Thames Region of England. DESIGN:Cross-sectional clinical study. SETTINGS:Community, religious and educational centres for adults from minority ethnic communities. PARTICIPANTS:Sn...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Robinson PG,Bhavnani V,Khan FA,Newton T,Pitt J,Thorogood N,Gelbier S,Gibbons D

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate dentists' real-life decisions as to mode of preventive treatment in adolescents and young adults, in relation to these patients' oral-health status, and to the dentists' characteristics. DESIGN:A random sample of 206 adolescents and 239 young adults (mean ages 13 and 27 years) produced 411 (92%) ...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Helminen SE,Vehkalahti M,Lammi R,Ketomäki TM,Murtomaa H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a strategy for a campaign aimed at general medical practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists and to evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign on (a) awareness of the role of liquid oral medicines containing sugar in dental disease and (b) changing prescribing and dispensing of sugar-containing medicines...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Evans DJ,Howe D,Maguire A,Rugg-Gunn AJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to investigate the modification of two utility assessment techniques (visual analogue scale and daily time trade-off) used in medicine to the dental setting, with a focus on their test-retest reliability and ease of use. BASIC RESEARCH DESIGN:The study involved a postal questi...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Fyffe HE,Deery C,Nugent Z,Nuttall NM,Pitts NB

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A previous study suggested that the most likely explanation for the rise and subsequent fall in caries in children in England and Wales during the last 50 years was the concurrent increase and then reduction in the sugar challenge to the population, mitigated after the early 1970s by the preventive effect of ...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Downer MC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to assess tooth loss among various age-groups in Saudi Arabia as a part of a national epidemiological study on oral conditions. DESIGN:Methodology was based on the WHO International Collaborative Study II. The sampling strategy covered Kingdom-wide sites in 10 regions with str...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： al Shammery A,el Backly M,Guile EE

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the relationship between the dental health of populations and the removal of impacted third molars. DESIGN:Data were obtained for the reported episodes of care undertaken in NHS hospitals in England for the surgical removal of third molar teeth and also for the number of removals undertaken in N...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Landes DP

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Three questions were proposed in this presentation. 1) How can existing quality of life measures be used most effectively now? (2) What additional work is needed in their development or application? (3) Can existing data be used for secondary analyses of 'generic questions' concerning the relationships betwee...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Hayes C

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To design a simulation model of population screening for oral cancer and precancer and to obtain estimates of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) and lives gained from screening, using decision analysis. DESIGN:A hypothetical opportunistic screening programme was compared with the status quo (no screening). ...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Downer MC,Jullien JA,Speight PM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between dental caries and Jarman underprivileged area scores at regional, district and electoral ward level and explore any possible relationship with water fluoridation. DESIGN:An ecological study using the English results from the NHS dental surveys on 5-year-old children in 1991...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Jones C,Taylor G,Woods K,Whittle G,Evans D,Young P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To apply the stages of change model for sugar and fat intakes in a sample of adolescents and to assess the factors influencing young people's ability to change their eating patterns. BASIC RESEARCH DESIGN:Self complete questionnaires assessed young people's readiness to change both their sugar and fat intak...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Watt RG

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of standardised clinical caries examinations of 172,659 five-year-old children from across the United Kingdom. These 1995/96 coordinated surveys are the latest in a series which seek to monitor the dental health of children and to assess the delivery of dental services. The criteria and ...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Pitts NB,Evans DJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to determine the opinions of a group of adolescents about the cosmetic acceptability of a range of fluorosis, investigate the prevalence and severity of fluorosis in the sample and consider the extent to which fluorosis levels were related to their dental caries experience. A random sample ...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Hawley GM,Ellwood RP,Davies RM

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dental health of 35-year-old Oslo citizens was investigated in cross-sectional studies applying similar methods in 1973, 1984 and 1993. In the 1993 investigation, a clinical and radiographic examination of dental caries was performed on 121 randomly selected individuals (response rate 68 per cent). DMFT/S scores w...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Berset GP,Eriksen HM,Bjertness E,Hansen BF

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the pattern of carious attack, prior to and after enlistment, experienced by a cohort of 291 Royal Air Force recruits first inspected in 1988 and observed again in 1992. On enlistment the recruits had suffered more occlusal than approximal caries. Over the next five years approximal caries occurr...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Richardson PS,McIntyre IG

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early 1970s the dental health of Israeli children was poor. As the dental services were insufficient to cope with the high disease rate the only realistic way of improving dental health was by prevention. The central element of this strategy was water fluoridation. The first water fluoridation plant was opened ...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Kelman AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of dental caries was determined in 322 Brazilian children aged 6 to 36 months. The earliest age at which initial and manifest caries were recorded in children were 6-12 months and 13-18 months respectively. Sixty-five per cent of the children were caries free. Seventeen per cent of the affected children...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Mattos-Graner Rde O,Rontani RM,Gavião MB,Bocatto HA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reports the dental status of a cohort of Royal Air Force (RAF) recruits in 1988 and details the work required to render and maintain them dentally fit for their first 5 years in the service. The mean DMFT (7.3) at inspection in 1988 increased by 0.8 whilst the mean number of restorations placed was 4.0. Endo...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Richardson PS,McIntyre IG

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the results of standardised clinical survey examinations of 127,481 14-year-old children across the United Kingdom. These 1994/95 coordinated surveys are the latest in a series which seeks to monitor the dental health of children and contribute to assessments of the provision of dental services. The...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Pitts NB,Evans DJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Delphi technique is a method for obtaining answers to questions that are issues of uncertainty even to experts. The aim of this study was to use the Delphi technique to develop two standards for the assessment of the diagnostic performance of dentists using radiographs. Two Delphi consensus procedures were initiat...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Stheeman SE,van 't Hof MA,Mileman PA,van der Stelt PF

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an undergraduate elective project, 56 villagers of all ages residing in a remote region of Sierra Leone were examined for caries and periodontal status. The results show moderate disease levels which increase with age. There is little evidence of provision of dental services. Although there is no sucrose av...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Bly S,Bradnock G

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of the potential for an index of material deprivation to indicate groups of young children at risk to dental caries and to assess caries experience in their age group at three levels of deprivation, measured by the Townsend Index, was undertaken in County Durham. Electoral wards were ranked on an inde...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Provart SJ,Carmichael CL

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are firmly entrenched in Hong Kong no data are available on the knowledge and attitudes of Hong Kong secondary school teachers and teenage children towards this infection, and their perception of infection control meas...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Chu CS,Chan TW,Hui HM,Samaranayake LP,Chan JC,Wei SH

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to establish the sensitivity and specificity of a clinical examination for the detection of early oral cancer and precancer. A screening programme was conducted over a period of one year and 2027 subjects aged 40 years and over were examined. Screening took place at two sites; opportunist...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Jullien JA,Downer MC,Zakrzewska JM,Speight PM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the relative contribution of dental services to the changes and geographical variations in caries status of 5- and 12-year-old children in England and Wales in the 1980s. A secondary aim was to assess the association between caries experience and social factors. An ecological study...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Nadanovsky P,Sheiham A

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative consumer research was used to develop a health promotion campaign for school pupils aged 15-17 years to encourage them to attend a dentist for examination. The campaign used a combination of conventional health education about the benefits of dental care together with incentives for attending. The emphasis...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Craven RC,Blinkhorn AS,Schou L

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjective orthodontic treatment need and perceived oral condition were studied in a sample of 226 young adult Finns with and without previous orthodontic treatment. The subjects, applicants to enter the University of Helsinki, were interviewed immediately after their entrance examination. Altogether 38.5 per cent of ...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Tuominen ML,Tuominen RJ,Nyström ME

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The views of community dental officers working in Northern Ireland were obtained concerning the difficulties they experience in treating disabled people. A closed questionnaire was used and a response rate of 84 per cent was achieved (60 officers). Thirty-seven per cent of the officers had received postgraduate traini...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Russell GM,Kinirons MJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A representative sample of 1,200 schoolchildren of Auvergne (France) ranging in age from 6 to 15 years was randomly selected. Dental caries experience was determined using the dft, DMFT and DMFS indices. The plaque index and the gingival index were also recorded. Comparison with an identical 1987 study enabled the cha...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Tubert-Jeannin S,Albuisson E,Planche R

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental ill health will not be controlled by clinical intervention, therefore, it is important to improve the efficacy of the dental profession's preventive care. This will involve a much broader perspective than has been the case in the past and is encompassed by the term health promotion. This represents an attempt b...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Blinkhorn AS

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on inequalities in health is extensive and provides convincing evidence that lower socio-economic groups have poorer general and dental health than higher socio-economic groups. In this literature, socio-economic status has been measured in terms of occupation, income or education. These conventional me...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Locker D

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most obvious consequence of a genuine dental phobic reaction is the avoidance of necessary dental care. Previous research has indicated that such avoidance results in deterioration of the oral status, which subsequently worsens patients' well-being and quality of life. The authors' previous investigations have sho...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Hakeberg M,Berggren U

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of sugar consumption in a sample of 350 11-12-year-old adolescents was examined. Their knowledge of the sugar content of a range of common foodstuffs was also investigated. There were only small differences between the social class groups in mealtime sugar consumption. The frequency of total food and drink...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Kinirons MJ,Beattie G,Steele PA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was carried out in Montreal (Canada) to predict caries development over the period of one year in primary teeth of kindergarten children (mean age 5 years 8 months +/- 4 months) living in a non-fluoridated area. The 302 children were examined at school on two occasions, one year apart. At the first examination...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Demers M,Brodeur JM,Mouton C,Simard PL,Trahan L,Veilleux G

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of various factors in the occurrence of tooth surface loss was explored in a, cross-sectional study using blind dental examinations. Two samples were drawn; one from Finland, comprising 186 workers from four factories and another from Tanzania of 180 workers from two factories. Among the 326 de...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Tuominen M,Tuominen R

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a review of the literature concerning the access of physically and mentally handicapped people to dental care, and the attitudes of dentists towards them. It is particularly concerned with access for those who are housebound, or restricted to wheelchairs. Accessible dental care facilities and infor...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Wilson KI

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1005 subjects were examined using the CPITN and DFT indices. CPITN data were modified in their presentation in order to be suitable for cross-tabulation. Two different methods were considered. One, described previously by Roland et al. (1984), classified subjects according to the combination of their highes...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Miller NA,Benamghar L,Roland E,Penaud J,Martin G

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A CPITN survey was conducted on 1958 institutionalised elderly people aged 59 years and older at 29 of the 30 public and private institutions in the city of Kitakyushu, Japan. About 60 per cent of the sample was edentulous, and the prevalence of periodontal conditions was high. The percentages of dentate subjects with...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Miyazaki H,Shirahama R,Ohtani I,Takehara T,Shimada N,Pilot T

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of enamel mottling in optimal and low fluoride areas of the West Midlands was studied in March 1989 using the Al-Alousi index and the TF index. A total of 600 children aged 8-10 years, in three groups of 200 each, formed the study group. Significantly more mottling was found in the optimal fluoride area...

journal_title：Community dental health

authors： Hamdan M,Rock WP

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00