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Dental Health Surveys (4):
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Dental Health Surveys
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We used quantitative and qualitative methods to assess residents' satisfaction with the model and the role of DHATs in the cultural context in which they operate. Our findings suggest that the DHAT model can provide much-needed access to urgent care and is beneficial from a comprehensive cultural pe...
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PMID: 21852624
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The availability of information on the individual perception of own's dental appearance and desire to uptake orthodontic treatment is of importance in the planning of orthodontic care within a population.
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PMID: 21913541
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Military Medicine (176)8 Suppl 2011
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (17)7 2011
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Information empowers people to take charge of their health. The aim of this study in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran was to evaluate parents' knowledge about dental malocclusion, referral routes and information sources. A random sample of 1000 7-9-year-old schoolchildren were given a questionnaire t...
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PMID: 21972484
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Fogorvosi szemle (104)2 2011
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In this study, risk determinants were assessed for periodontal disease in the oral health survey of a representative Hungarian adult population sample. 4153 individuals participated in the study after formal consent. Participants were questionned on level of education, dental office attendance, smoki...
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PMID: 21789934
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Fogorvosi szemle (104)1 2011
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We consider gender differences, CPI 3 and CPI 4 were more frequent among males while women had CPI 0 and CPI 2 with higher frequency. Our findings reflect regional differences of periodontal health conditions as 16% of the population of the capitol and its surroundings had healthy periodontal condit...
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PMID: 21789930
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To assess oral health status and practices of 5- and 12-year-old Tribal school children.
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PMID: 21678679
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To analyze and quantify the sociodemographic, behavioral, and clinical factors influencing the oral pain and eating difficulties reported by Spanish 35- to 44-year-old adults and more elderly people in the most recent Spanish National Oral Health Survey.
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PMID: 21528121
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If a child's general health is compromised, care for his/her oral and dental health becomes an absolute necessity. Children with heart diseases require special dental care because of the risk of developing infective endocarditis.
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PMID: 21678677
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Professionally determined needs as well as self-perceived oral health needs play significant roles in the assessment of needs for dental care. The aim of this study was to compare the self-perceived oral health needs by the adolescents with professionally determined needs by the oral health-care give...
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PMID: 21809605
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To identify factors associated with self-perceived oral health among Brazilian elderly individuals.
Data from the Projeto SB Brasil (Brazilian Oral Health Project), conducted in 2002-2003, were used. A probabilistic sample of 5,349 elderly individuals, aged between 65 and 74 years, was analyzed, int...
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PMID: 20882263
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)7 2010
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The aim of this study was to report on dental visit patterns and their association with periodontal health among young Saudi Arabian students. A representative sample of 3090 students was randomly selected. The students' dental visit patterns were assessed with a questionnaire. Clinical examinations...
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PMID: 20799540
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Oral habits, prevalence and effects on occlusion of 4-15 year old school children in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Three hundred and sixteen children (34.1%) of total children examined, exhibited one form of oral habit or another. The most common habit observed was digit sucking which was observed in 17% of the children. Increased overjet was observed in 33% of the habit children. This was significantly higher t...
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PMID: 20539325
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The findings of this study do suggest that the culturally adapted OHIP-14 version may be a good research instrument to be considered for use in measuring the impact of oral problems on the quality of life in Czech population....
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PMID: 20939256
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The OHIP-Mx-49 is a reliable and valid instrument that can be used with older Mexicans....
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PMID: 20602065
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The normative need for dental treatment was significantly higher among the psychiatry group compared to the medical group (85% vs 52%; p<0.001); even after taking account of the effect of age, gender, teeth status, physical comorbidity, cognition, depressive symptoms, and overall mental and social h...
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PMID: 20003632
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Georgian medical news ()182 2010
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We are experiencing the process of radical aging. It is very essential to evaluate the quality of orthopedic treatment. For this purpose we should identify the prosthesis of different constructions of the patient's mouth cavity. It is very important to evaluate also their availability and validity....
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PMID: 20587826
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of the indexes DAI and IOTN in predicting the need of orthodontic treatment based in one property: reproducibility. The index DAI was developed in USA in 1989 and can identify 10 occlusal alterations that result, mathematically, in scores, with weigh...
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PMID: 20464191
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Indicators and analyses that used the database from SB Brazil 2003 (the most recent nationwide oral health survey) have been criticized as unreliable due to sampling problems. The current study countered that this critique was based solely on statistical concepts, unsupported by empirical evidence....
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PMID: 20512200
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School nurse news (27)2 2010
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Significant levels of treated and untreated caries and gingival disease were observed in this sample. The importance for primary and secondary prevention, as well as treatment for periodontal and dental disease, in rural Puerto Rican communities is evident from this investigation....
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PMID: 20222332
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In order to gain insight into the development of caries prevalence and caries experience among Dutch youth, a meta-analysis was carried out on epidemiological caries data collected in 5 and 6 and 11 and 12 year-olds between 1980 and 2009. From the present analysis it appears that after the mid-1980'...
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PMID: 20387339
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)1 2010
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A total of 1340 5-year-old children were examined as part of the first national survey of the oral health of children in the United Arab Emirates. The objective was to determine dental caries status and compare variations in caries experience in all 9 medical districts. Sampling and examination for...
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PMID: 20214158
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Pediatric Dentistry (32)7 2010
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Using qualitative methods, the purpose of this study was to understand low-income parents' experiences and how these influenced their oral health-related behavior toward their children.
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PMID: 21462765
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Swedish Dental Journal (34)2 2010
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Orthodontic treatment need and demand in 19-year-olds in Sweden has not previously been analysed in relation to geographic origin. The aim of this follow-up study was to examine the prevalence of self-perceived treatment need, malocclusion, earlier orthodontic treatment, self-perceived dental aesthe...
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PMID: 20701218
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Swedish Dental Journal (34)2 2010
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The aim of this study was to investigate self-perceived oral health in two elderly populations, age's 65 and 75 years, and its relation to background factors, socioeconomic, individual, and dental health service system factors. Another purpose was to investigate if there were any differences in thes...
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PMID: 20701219
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The clinic research proved the dental caries appeared among 96.7% of adolescents. The dental caries incidence was 7.27. There was a statistically higher number of teeth which needed the treatment in the smaller town and the village in comparison with the city. The SIC index was 11.28. The treatment...
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PMID: 20976961
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The biggest proportion of tooth wear (47.3%) presented the value 2 of the Smith and Knight index. Most of the tooth wear with Smith and Knight index 3 (54.4%) are abrasions, 71.4% of the tooth wear with Smith and Knight index 1 are attritions, and 20.3% of the tooth wear with Smith and Knight index...
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PMID: 20701001
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One in 5 Canadian adults experienced adverse impacts from oral disorders. Further work is needed to identify the material and psychological determinants of these impacts....
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PMID: 19744362
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There has been no overall change in the oral health of adults aged 65 years and older from 1995 to 2006. However, approximately 75 percent of the elderly in California were missing one or more teeth due to disease in 2006. Californians who are older, black, less educated, have low family income, and...
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PMID: 19753883
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Receiving dental care is positively related to having dental insurance; being female; increasing age; being white, Hispanic or Asian; higher levels of education; higher levels of family income; better health status; and being unmarried. In contrast, being more likely to perceive financial barriers t...
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PMID: 19753880
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In California, adults living in the community who have two or more of six functional limitations in activities of daily living outnumber adults who live in skilled nursing, intermediate care, and congregate living facilities by almost 2:1. In 2003, approximately 106,000 elderly women living in the c...
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PMID: 19753881
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When the DHC is considered, 2 per cent of Tehran school children showed 'Extreme need', 18 per cent 'Severe need', 23 per cent 'Moderate need', 37 per cent 'Little need' and 20 per cent had 'No need' of orthodontic treatment. In those needing treatment (Grades 4 and 5) common deviations were hypodon...
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PMID: 19634457
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Although subjective and objective assessments of preadolescent orthodontic treatment need are rather consistent, the percentage of actual treatment recommendations exceeded both the subjective and objective assessments of treatment need. Preadolescent self-assessments and desire for braces were sign...
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PMID: 19362271
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We used logistic regression to compute adjusted odds ratios (OR) for ECC and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Children with the best dietary practices (uppermost tertile of the HEI) were 44% less likely to exhibit severe ECC compared with children with the worst dietary practices (lowest tertile of th...
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PMID: 19407158
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We examined whether cognitive ability was associated with oral health, and whether it influenced the relationship between oral health and socio-economic position. Data were from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994), for participants aged 20-59 years. Oral health was...
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PMID: 19407156
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Das Gesundheitswesen (71)3 2009
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If a cluster design is chosen for a caries epidemiology survey in nursery centres, the sample size calculation and the analysis should take that into account in order to avoid misleading results....
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PMID: 19221982
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The Health Insurance Board (CVZ) initiated a study of the functioning of the dental care system for mentally disabled people in the Netherlands.Two independent samples were used for the study, each drawn from a subpopulation of people with a mental disability in the age-group 15-45: people who have...
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PMID: 19382540
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Community dental health (26)1 2009
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The majority of low SES children did not practice effective caries prevention; few reported twice daily brushing with fluoride toothpaste. Caries experience was very high and much was untreated. Immigrant status, supervised tooth brushing and parental knowledge about fluoride in toothpastes were sig...
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PMID: 19385436
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Community dental health (26)1 2009
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Three-hundred and thirty-two (332) children were examined. The mean DMFT was 0.80 (SD 1.24). Analysis (Mann-Whitney U test) based on stratification of the sample according to medical-card status revealed no statistically significant difference between DMFT median scores of children of medical-card h...
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PMID: 19385438
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Community dental health (26)1 2009
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Caries is a severe oral health problem for Singaporean preschoolers, especially in the Malay community and among children with low economic status....
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PMID: 19385434
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Dentists need pregnancy-specific education to provide up-to-date preventive and curative care to pregnant patients. The results of the study identified specific skills and misinformation that could be addressed through CDE. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Comprehensive dental care provided during pregnancy i...
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PMID: 19188418
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The aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with negative self-rated oral health. Elderly subjects from the Brazilian Ministry of Health's oral health survey (2002-2003) who rated their own oral health as bad or very bad were compared to those who rated their oral health as excellent...
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PMID: 19219250
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High prevalence of tooth loss among Brazilian adolescents shows a need for targeted dental actions including prevention at earlier ages, treatment of affected teeth and universal access to fluoridated water....
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PMID: 19169572
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This contribution updates federal survey findings on children's oral health and dental care since release of Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General in 2000. Dental caries experience continued at high levels, impacting 40% of all children aged 2 to 11 years, with greater disease and...
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PMID: 19945076
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A total of 1791 permanent teeth were extracted of which 708 (39.5%) teeth were extracted due to caries and its sequelae, 508 (28.4%) due to periodontal disease, 347 (19.4%) for orthodontic purposes, 29 (1.6%) due to impactions, 155 (8.7%) for prosthodontic purposes, and 44 (2.5%) for other reasons....
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PMID: 19838611
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (15)6 2009
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (15)4 2009
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This paper describes the first national survey of oral health in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Using WHO criteria, dental caries and fluorosis were recorded in 2651 schoolchildren aged 12 and 15 years, and periodontal disease in those aged 15 years. The prevalence of dental caries in the permanent...
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PMID: 20187552
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Adults with spinal cord injury reported a high prevalence of oral problems and oral pain. Those with paraplegia were more likely to report problems than those with tetraplegia. Because dry mouth and smoking were significantly associated with these problems, patient education from both dental and med...
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PMID: 19777862
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Ten point eight percent of the sample is of foreign origin. The prevalence of caries in temporary dentition at 6 years is 35.9% with a DFT of 1.26, in permanent dentition, 28.5% and 46.4% at 12 and 14 years; the average of affected teeth 0.63 and 1.28 respectively. The index of restoration is 26.1%...
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PMID: 19738644
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Seven of the original 8 OIDP items were translated into the local language. Cronbach's alpha was 0.85 and 0.80 in urban and rural areas, respectively. The prevalence of oral impacts was 25% in the urban and 30% in the rural area. Corresponding estimates for CPI>0 were 63% and 68%. Adjusted ORs for h...
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PMID: 19828031
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