PURPOSE To assess California dental hygiene educators' perceptions of an application of the American Dental Hygienists' Association's (ADHA) advanced dental hygiene practitioner model (ADHP) in medical settings where the advanced dental hygiene practitioner collaborates in medical settings with other health professionals to meet clients' oral health needs. METHODS In 2014, 30 directors of Cal...

Background: Enormous scientific and technological advancements, reduced the mortality rate, morbidity but certain issues came up, which significantly affected the trust and relationship between a doctor and the patient such as, deteriorating quality of medical education, ethical issues, commercialization of medical fields and corporate culture for patient management. So...

This paper reviews the healthcare system, available dental care, and oral health status of people in Pakistan. Considering the enormous unmet oral health needs, the insufficient supply of dental professionals and the current unstructured dental hygiene curriculum in Pakistan, a mission, vision, and goals for professional dental hygiene in Pakistan is recommended. The authors offer recommendatio...

The present study is to review stress among dentists. This discusses several factors that can cause for dental professionals, and the impact of on general health professionals. found mechanisms cope with workplace related stress, however more research needed.

BACKGROUND Regular physical activity is well recognized as an important lifestyle behavior for the development and maintenance of individual and population health and well-being. This study was conducted to evaluate physical activity, sedentary lifestyle, and obesity among Indian dental health professionals. METHODS Global Physical Activity Questionnaire was used to assess physical activity a...

Dental care is the most common unmet health care need of children. Those at increased risk for problems with oral health and access to care are from poor or minority families, lack health insurance, or have special health care needs. These factors place more than 52 percent of children at risk for untreated oral disease. Measures of access and parental report indicate unmet oral health needs, b...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the degree of perception of laypersons, dental professionals, and students with regard to the esthetics of the smile in cases of mandibular incisor extractions with the presence of black spaces between them. MATERIALS AND METHODS Changes were made to a front-view intraoral photograph of occlusion treated by means of a mandibular incisor extraction, simulating various con...

The scope of this article involved qualitative research conducted together with pregnant women attended by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and private services, seeking to identify the perception of these women on the role of health professionals in relation to dental care during pregnancy. The data were collected through recorded, semi-structured interviews based on a questionnaire a...