Maintaining good dental health among children in the United States today should be easy: regular tooth brushing, flossing, exposure to fluoride, and attention to good nutrition, together with visits to a dentist twice a year, should be enough to assure that a child rarely suffers the pain of an abscessed tooth, or loses a tooth to severe decay. However, many young children, especially those liv...

OBJECTIVES 'Habit' is a process whereby situational cues generate behaviour automatically, via activation of learned cue-behaviour associations. This article presents a conceptual and empirical rationale for distinguishing between two manifestations of habit in health behaviour, triggering selection and initiation of an action ('habitual instigation'), or automating progression through subactio...

Background The maintenance of effective oral hygiene is critical during orthodontic treatment. It is the responsibility of the orthodontist, the general dentist and their teams to collaborate in providing oral hygiene instruction, monitoring and motivation to all patients undergoing orthodontic treatment. It is hoped that these techniques will become habits that stay with the patients for the r...

The purpose of this study was: to determine whether polishing standardized proximal root surfaces with dental floss, Superfloss, wood and plastic interdental cleaners, using a polishing paste, produces any significant change on root surface roughness; and to determine the effectiveness of different number of strokes in polishing. 80 tooth specimens were prepared, 10 in each of 8 sample groups. ...

This study assessed links between racism and oral health outcomes among pregnant Canadian Aboriginal women. Baseline data were analyzed for 541 First Nations (94.6%) and Métis (5.4%) women in an early childhood caries preventive trial conducted in urban and on-reserve communities in Ontario and Manitoba. One-third of participants experienced racism in the past year determined by the Measure of ...

PURPOSE Dental caries is the most common disease of children and remains a significant oral health problem worldwide for both children and adults. The traditional paradigm of treating dental caries solely by "drilling and filling," brushing and flossing and lowering sugar intake has evolved. Current science in the management of dental caries suggests a clear focus on the reduction of responsibl...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure the capability of a triaxial accelerometer (Virtual Corset) to collect humeral elevation angles and exposure parameters in a simulated occupational environment. BACKGROUND There is a need for an economical ambulatory device to estimate elevation angles and exposure parameters in occupational groups. METHOD A magnetic tracking device was used to...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle has been proven to have a dramatic effect on the risk of age-related diseases. The association of lifestyle and facial ageing has been less well studied. OBJECTIVES To identify lifestyle factors that associate with perceived facial age in white north European men and women. METHODS Lifestyle, facial wrinkling and perceived facial age were studied in two cross-sectional ...

Objectives Oral health is an important aspect of general health and well-being for children. Understanding the viewpoint of mothers about children's oral health provides a basis for the development of interventions to improve oral care and disease prevention. The purpose of this study was to explore the perception of Iranian mothers regarding the oral health of their children. Materials and M...

Objective: Oral physiotherapy is described as the maintenance of oral hygiene, and its goal daily, full elimination plaque with least amount work, time, equipment feasible.
 Methods: Materials procedures In order to evaluate brushing effective duration brushing, pattern, sextants, use dental floss, 30 patients aged 18 65 were divided into two groups, one without prior instruction, other in...