background and aims. early childhood caries (ecc) is a public health problem with biological, social and behavioural determinants and the notion that the principal etiology is inappropriate feeding modalities is no longer tenable. hence this study was undertaken to assess the relationship between ecc and socio-demographic factors, dietary habits, oral hygiene habits and parental characteristics...

Introduction: Non-carious lesions are an oral health pro-blem in adults, consequently it is necessary to create mechanisms for their diagnosis and prevention. Objective: To determine the frequency of erosion, abrasion related factors patients treated at a university dental clinic. Material Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted sample 153 adults clinic Lima, Peru, 2018. Personal aspects...

PURPOSE This study was done to examine the effects of 4% hypertonic saline solution mouthwash and tooth brushing education on the oral health of elders living in long term care facilities. METHODS In this quasi-experimental study, the participants were assigned to a 2% experimental group (n=20), a 4% experimental group (n=20), and a control group (n=20). Data were analyzed using ANOVA, repeat...

We conducted a study to determine the frequency of bacteraemias following dental extraction and common oral procedures, namely tooth brushing and chewing, and the relationship between bacteraemia and oral health in black patients. Positive blood cultures were detected in 29.6% of patients after dental extraction, in 10.8% of patients after tooth brushing and in no patients after chewing. No rel...

We report a 41-year-old woman with complex reflex epilepsy in which seizures were induced exclusively by the act of tooth brushing. All the attacks occurred with a specific sensation of sexual arousal and orgasm-like euphoria that were followed by a period of impairment of consciousness. Ictal EEG demonstrated two events of epileptic seizure that were provoked after tooth brushing for 38 and 14...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of dental caries in the primary and permanent teeth, and evaluate the brushing habits of school children in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).  Methods. This study was conducted at Dammam, KSA. Oral examination of the participants was conducted from February to May 2014. The total sample size for this cross-sectional study was 711. There were 397 child...

PURPOSE Our analysis of data collected in 1995 showed that 12-year-olds' self-esteem was associated with demographic/socioeconomic background variables and lifestyle variables and with the quality of the variable "oral health behavior." The study reported here was conducted to identify changes at ages 14 (in 1997) and 16 years (in 1999) in the strength of the association between self-esteem and...