abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between tooth loss, chewing habits, and food choices among older Nigerians. METHODS:A questionnaire was administered by an interviewer to 500 randomly selected Nigerians, aged 50 and above, drawn from households in Plateau State in the North Central part of Nigeria. Intake of fru...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Akpata E,Otoh E,Enwonwu C,Adeleke O,Joshipura K

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：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: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: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: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:Patient satisfaction and dissatisfaction are critical dimensions leading to favorable or unfavorable treatment outcomes. Although impacted third molar (ITM) surgery is one of the most common dental surgical procedures, it is a challenging operation because of numerous potential complications and patients gen...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Kim Y,Kim S,Myoung H

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a Portuguese language version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire for 11-14-year-olds (CPQ(11-14)) showed differential item functioning (DIF) when compared with the original English language version. METHODS:CPQ(11-14) data from a school-based Brazilian study (n = 138) was compared wi...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Traebert J,de Lacerda JT,Thomson WM,Page LF,Locker D

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Demarcated opacities in permanent first molars are common developmental tooth defects, characterized by areas with insufficient mineralization of the enamel. The defects present clinically as a continuum from creamy-white demarcated opacities, yellowish-brown demarcated opacities to macroscopic loss of tooth...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Wogelius P,Haubek D,Nechifor A,Nørgaard M,Tvedebrink T,Poulsen S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Dental caries is a global public health problem, especially in children. Most caries in developing countries remains untreated. Only limited data are available on the clinical consequences of untreated dental caries because there is no measure to quantify the prevalence and severity of oral conditions resulti...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Monse B,Heinrich-Weltzien R,Benzian H,Holmgren C,van Palenstein Helderman W

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to assess the caries status of 5-year-olds in a low caries area, and study associations between dental caries and parent-related factors: parents' education, national origin, oral health behaviours and attitudes. METHODS:The material consisted of 523 children and was a stratifi...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Wigen TI,Wang NJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the role of adulthood socioeconomic status (SES) and sense of coherence (SOC) in the relationship between childhood SES and adult oral health-related behaviours. METHODS:This study analysed responses of 5318 dentate subjects aged 30 years and over who participated in the Finnish Health 2000 Survey...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Bernabé E,Watt RG,Sheiham A,Suominen-Taipale AL,Nordblad A,Savolainen J,Kivimäki M,Tsakos G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We explored the relationship between income and two oral health outcomes in Brazil, in order to assess the shape of this relationship. METHODS:Individual-level data from a national oral health survey were obtained for 22 634 15- to 19-year-old subjects from 330 municipalities. Relationships between income (...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Celeste RK,Nadanovsky P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to investigate the association between dental fear and both dental caries and periodontal indicators. METHODS:A three-stage stratified clustered sample of the Australian adult population completed a computer-assisted telephone interview followed by a clinical examination. Oral health measure...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Armfield JM,Slade GD,Spencer AJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To analyse the possible effects of the socioeconomic status (SES) on the prosthetic replacement of missing teeth in working-age people and to explore the role of potential confounders. METHODS:Cross-sectional data were collected from 2310 German adults aged 30-59 years. The relationship between each of the ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Mundt T,Polzer I,Samietz S,Grabe HJ,Messerschmidt H,Dören M,Schwarz S,Kocher T,Biffar R,Schwahn C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVES:Previous to this research, no literature had explored the clustering of betel quid chewing at the school-level and the contextual factors contributing to this behavior among elementary schoolchildren. This study therefore examines this in clusters stratified according to school geography and the rate of abor...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Huang HL,Lee CH,Yen YY,Chen T,Chen FL,Ho PS,Lai TC,Tsai WL,Hsu CC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Objective measures of dental diseases reflect only their clinical end-point. There is a need to use multidimensional measures of diseases that consider their psychosocial aspects and functional impact. The aim of this study is to compare the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) between a group of HIV...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Mulligan R,Seirawan H,Alves ME,Navazesh M,Phelan JA,Greenspan D,Greenspan JS,Mack WJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the relationship between dental fluorosis, polymorphisms in the COL1A2 gene, and serum calciotropic hormone levels. METHODS:We conducted a case-control study among children between 8 and 12 years of age with (n = 75) and without (n = 165) dental fluorosis in two counties in Henan Province, Ch...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Huang H,Ba Y,Cui L,Cheng X,Zhu J,Zhang Y,Yan P,Zhu C,Kilfoy B,Zhang Y

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess the relationship between parents' dental attitudes and the caries increment in their children from the age of 3 to 5 years. METHODS:Data based on parental questionnaires and dental examinations were collected from children participating in a follow-up study from age 3 years (n = 354) in 2002 to 5 ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Skeie MS,Espelid I,Riordan PJ,Klock KS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite a marked improvement in oral health of Australian children over the last 30 years, severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) affects up to 17% of 2- to 3-year-old children with some requiring hospitalization and invasive treatment. This provided a compelling rationale to develop and test an oral health pr...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Plutzer K,Spencer AJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the perceived inability to cope (PIC) and impact on quality of life (QOL) in dental pain patients, and investigate their effect on perceived need for pain medication. METHODS:Fully structured self-complete questionnaire survey of a sample of patients with current experience of dental pain/discom...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Pau A,Croucher R,Marcenes W

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of overweight children in the United States continues to increase. OBJECTIVES:To examine the relationship between being overweight and caries in primary and permanent dentition in a nationally representative sample of children. METHODS:Data from the NHANES III (1988-1994) were analyzed using...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT,Auinger P,Billings RJ,Weitzman M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study is to determine the level of engagement among dentists, and subsequently, to investigate which dental job resources are positively correlated with engagement. METHODS:By stratifying on gender, age, and region, a representative sample of 848 general dental practitioners was drawn at ran...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Gorter RC,Te Brake HJ,Hoogstraten J,Eijkman MA

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to characterize the association between clinical and psychosocial factors as they related to perceptions by parents and adolescents to the adolescent's oral health status and treatment need. Additionally, the degree to which adolescent's and parent's perceptions of oral health and tr...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Weyant RJ,Manz M,Corby P,Rustveld L,Close J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Etiological models that predominantly emphasize current adult life styles, such as smoking, diet and lack of exercise have recently been seriously challenged by a growing body of evidence that disturbed early growth and development, childhood infection, poor nutrition, and social and psychosocial disadvantage across t...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Nicolau B,Thomson WM,Steele JG,Allison PJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore distribution of stage at diagnosis and relative survival rates among US adults with oral cavity cancer in relation to race, and over time. METHODS:We obtained 1973-2002 oral cancer incidence data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, and computed proportions for eac...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Shiboski CH,Schmidt BL,Jordan RC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the relative importance of dental and medical features in relation to perceived oral and general health in a sample of 31-year-old individuals. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:The present study used information collected from the longitudinal Cardiff Survey, which commenced in 1981. The initial sample cons...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Richmond S,Chestnutt I,Shennan J,Brown R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to validate a Korean version of the oral health impact profile (OHIP) and to develop a short-form of OHIP for the Korean elderly. METHODS:The original English version of OHIP was translated into Korean using a forward-backward method. Internal consistency was measured by Cronbach's alpha am...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Bae KH,Kim HD,Jung SH,Park DY,Kim JB,Paik DI,Chung SC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study explored oral health counselling concerning changes of oral hygiene habits in 11- to 13-year-old schoolchildren within a theoretical framework of the transtheoretical model and the motivational interview. METHODS:The follow-up data (2002-2003) formed two sequential parts: the first part comprised ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Kasila K,Poskiparta M,Kettunen T,Pietilä I

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Understanding socially relevant attitudes to fluorosis and dental caries is important. Previous studies have concentrated mainly on aesthetic implications. AIMS:To investigate social judgements beyond the aesthetic, made when viewing digitally manipulated extraoral images of dental fluorosis of varying degr...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Williams DM,Chestnutt IG,Bennett PD,Hood K,Lowe R,Heard P

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:In Sweden, many patients with symptoms allegedly caused by their dental materials have exchanged their restorations, but the effects of the exchange have been insufficiently investigated. Therefore, the aim of the study was to describe the change in health over time for these patients and the hypothesis was ...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Tillberg A,Berglund A,Mårell L,Bergdahl J,Eriksson N,Lindén G,Stenberg B,Widman L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess (by direct determination) the fluoride (F) exposure from ingested toothpaste among 4-5-year-old Malaysian children. METHODS:This was part of a larger study to determine fluorosis status and F exposures. A total of 1343 10-11-year-old subjects were sampled by two-stage syst...

journal_title：Community dentistry and oral epidemiology

authors： Siew Tan B,Razak IA

更新日期：2005-10-01 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