BACKGROUND Gingivitis and other plaque-associated diseases have a high prevalence in western communities even though the majority of adults report daily oral hygiene. This indicates a lack of oral hygiene skills. Currently, there is no clear evidence as to which brushing technique would bring about the best oral hygiene skills. While the modified Bass technique is often recommended by dentists ...

Both periodontitis and osteoporosis have similar sign of bone resorption in nature. However, the relationship of the severity between these 2 bone-loss diseases is still uncertain.The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the severity of osteoporosis and periodontitis regarding the impact of oral hygiene maintenance. In total, 35,127 osteoporosis patients and 50,498 compa...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the research was to assess the oral hygiene habits in the elderly group of study population of Southern Poland. METHODS The study was conducted in dental services in two selected cities in Southern Poland. The group of subjects consisted of 664 respondents (272 men, 392 women) aged 65 to 81 years. Oral hygiene was measured with the author's anonymous questionnaire consist...

BACKGROUND School based oral health education through traditional lecturing has been found successful only in improving oral health knowledge, while has low effectiveness in oral hygiene and gingival health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of experiential learning (EL) oral health education to traditional lecturing (TL), on enhancing oral health knowledge, attitude and b...

The aim of this study was to investigate oral and hand hygiene behaviour and risk factors among 13 to 15 year-old in-school adolescents in four Southeast Asian countries. Data were collected by self-reported questionnaire from nationally representative samples (total 13,824) of school children aged 13 to 15 years in India, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. Results indicate that overall, 22.4% of...

introduction the effects of periodontal diseases observed in adults have earlier inception in life period. gingival diseases in a child may progress to jeopardize the periodontium in adult hood. therefore, periodontal diseases must be prevented and diagnosed early in the life. periodontal diseases risk factors must also be identified. the aim of this research was to find the prevalence and iden...

Children with special health care needs receive less oral care than the normal population, inspite of the high level of dental diseases among them. They are at an increased risk for oral diseases throughout their lifetime. This paper reports a case of a toddler with congenital unusual thick convolutions of the cortex resulting in a condition called pachygyria. Intra oral examination showed mult...

conclusions our data has provided baseline information about epidemiologic aspects of oral mucosal lesions which can be valuable in organized national program targeting on oral health and hygiene in the society. results the prevalence of mucosal lesions in our study was 19.4%. our data demonstrated higher prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in males and young adults (30-40 years). the most commo...

aim: promotion of oral health in schools is one of the recommended polices of who. theaim of this study was to determine the role of oral hygiene beliefs according to the healthbelief model in regular brushing behavior, among the 9-10 years old female students.methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on the female students of rasht-iran in2012. applying the statistical estimation, the ...