The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for the practice of companion animal dentistry for the veterinary profession. Dental care is necessary to provide optimum health and quality of life. Diseases of the oral cavity, if left untreated, are often painful and can contribute to other local or systemic diseases. This paper includes guidelines for materials and equipment, dental clea...

During a recent scientific meeting held in Botswana (16th-19th October 1991), it was reported that the oral health situation in developing countries was typified by an increase in the prevalence of dental diseases. Kenya was cited as one of the typical examples of this worrying trend. For there to be an increase in dental diseases, there must be a concomitant increase or an upward shift in the ...

The two major afflictions of the oral cavity are dental caries and gingival/periodontal disease. While microorganisms have long been acknowledged as important etiologic factors, the most recent research data demonstrate that both of these pathologic conditions have a strong hereditary base, i.e., even in the presence of putative pathogenic microorganisms, if the host individual is not genetical...

Oral diseases persist to be a major health problem around the world. Apart from dental caries and periodontal diseases which are the most important global oral health problems, other conditions like oral and pharyngeal cancers and oral tissue lesions are also of important concern.Oral health is essential to general well-being and is related to the quality of life that extends beyond the functio...

There is a role for dentistry in the interprofessional management of chronic diseases by addressing common risk factors Background A critical scientific foundation has developed for management of risk factors common to major diseases including periodontal disease, caries, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically review this scientific literature. T...

ELENA MIHAELA CARAUSU1, VIOLETA TRANDAFIR2,3*, LAURA GHIBU4,5*, OVIDIU STAMATIN6, LAURA ELISABETA CHECHERITA7 1Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Department of Management and Public Health Dentistry, 16 Universitatii Str, 700115, Iasi, Romania 2 Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Department of Oral and M...

The next decades will show a shift in the attention given to diseases of the dental hard tissues. Clinical evidence on how to prevent dental caries is now available. More emphasis should be given to optimising the rational use of schemes of prevention. Caries still shows epidemic patterns in many countries while in some developed countries a high prevalence of the disease is limited to a small ...

The concept of microbial ecological change as a mechanism for preventing dental diseases is an important one while altered microbial ecology may also lead to dental diseases. New methods such as probiotic approaches to eliminate pathogenic members of the microbiota can be investigated. Probiotics have been extensively studied for their health promoting effects. The main field of research has be...