OBJECTIVE The purposes of this study were to (1) quantify dentists' practice patterns regarding caries prevention and (2) test the hypothesis that certain dentists' characteristics are associated with these practice patterns. DESIGN The study used a cross-sectional study design consisting of a questionnaire survey. PARTICIPANTS The study queried dentists who worked in outpatient dental prac...

OBJECTIVE This study tested the hypothesis that successful periodontal treatment was associated with a reduction in the incidence of spontaneous preterm birth (PTB). DESIGN This was a randomised, controlled, blinded clinical trial. SETTING Hospital outpatient clinic. POPULATION Pregnant women of 6-20 weeks of gestation were eligible. METHODS Of 322 pregnant women with periodontal diseas...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of periodontal non-surgical therapy on serum levels of the inflammatory cytokines in chronic periodontitis subjects with stable coronary heart disease. METHODS Seventy-five subjects with both chronic periodontitis (CP) and stable coronary heart disease (CHD) were enrolled in the study. Forty subjects received periodontal nonsurgical treatment including oral h...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of Nonsurgical Periodontal Therapy (NPT) on periodontal clinical parameters and Serum Inflammatory Factor (CRP, IL-6, TNF-α) levels of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and periodontitis. Methods: Fifty-three patients were randomly divided into Groups A and B, and another 30 patients with periodontitis but without systemic diseases were included as Gr...

In the western surgical tradition there has been little acknowledgement of ancient Vedic surgeon Sushruta who initiated many aspects practice. his compendium Samhita, systematised medicine in various areas. His meticulous knowledge branches is evident. A brilliant surgeon, he developed plastic techniques, types bandaging, hygiene practices and over one hundred instruments. this article, I focus...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of professional preparation among clinical instructors employed in baccalaureate dental hygiene programs in the U.S. and to examine clinical instructors' and students' perceived need for educational preparation. The data-generating sample consisted of 285 dental hygiene clinical students and 76 dental hygiene clinical instructors fr...

Preventive dentistry has received so much attention from both the dental profession and the public during the past few years that several new approaches to dental health education have been developed. The report which follows will describe the results of a two-month, oral-health, educational activity conducted by faculty and students from the University of Michigan. The study included 60 boys b...

despite the extensive deployment of multi-core architectures in the past few years, the design and optimization of each single processing core is still a fresh field in computing .on the other hand, having a design procedure (used to solve the problems related to the design of a single processing core )makes it possible to apply the proposed solutions to specific-purpose processing cores .the i...