The main aim of this paper is to present epidemiological indicators of oral health among six-year olds in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) and to analyze values of dmft index and dental treatment needs in order to identify differences in parts of the country. Another aim is to identify the needs from the public oral health care system in Bosnia and Herzegovina related to early permanent dentition by...

There are no published research reports on the prevalence of dental sealant use in children in Saudi Arabia. This study determined the prevalence and socioeconomic indicators of dental sealant use on the permanent molars of a stratified random sample of schoolchildren in Jeddah. A basic oral screening survey of students was conducted by dentists and a self-administered questionnaire was complet...

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of caries stages and interventions on first permanent molars (FPM) in Brazilian children . Material Methods: Data from FPM were extracted dental records aged 5-14 years age that attended UERJ Pediatric Dentistry Clinic. include patient age, sex, biofilm index, presence carious lesions all stages, treatments. was analyzed using SPSS® 20.0 program. Results: A...

Four different commercially available sealants were placed in caries-free permanent premolars and molars for a total of 381 teeth in 53 young participants. The volumetric loss of sealant material was evaluated over a two-year period using a tooth replica technique previously published. The pattern of progressive sealant loss was similar for all materials and for molars and premolars. Approximat...

Retention of sealant material is the main determinant for the caries preventive e€ect of sealants. This may partly explain the low interest in using ®ssure sealants in young children, where sucient moisture control may be dicult to obtain. Consequently, almost no data are available in the literature on the e€ect of ®ssure sealants in young pre-school children. The purpose of the present commu...

Two contradictory hypotheses on the role of dietary carbohydrates in health and disease shape how dental-systemic associations are regarded. On one side, Cleave and Yudkin postulated that excessive dietary fermentable carbohydrate intake led-in the absence of dental interventions such as fluorides-first to dental diseases and then to systemic diseases. Under this hypothesis, dental and systemic...

The clinical effectiveness of Delton (Johnson and Johnson Dental Products Company, East Windsor, New Jersey) fissure sealent was studied in 205 children 6 to 10 years of age (mean age, ;n/2). A total of 993 children in Grades 1, 3, and 4 was screened, and subjects were selected if there was evidence of previous dental caries in the mouth and if a pair of contralateral maxillary or mandibular fi...

AIM This study was designed to describe caries experience and treatment response in groups of children in three countries--Finland, Germany and Russia--with different systems of public dental care. MATERIALS AND METHODS Information concerning permanent teeth (carious and filled surfaces, type of restorative treatment and applied sealants) was collected retrospectively from existing dental rec...