BACKGROUND Of the overall 9.5 million deaths annually in India, nearly 100,000 are due to organ failure. To save and extend lives, organ donation and organ transplantation have become the only hope. Health care professionals (HCPs) are a key element in facilitating cadaveric organ donation process. OBJECTIVE To assess and compare the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding organ donation ...

This paper describes the benefits and pitfalls of using colour codes in general dental practice. The issue is particularly relevant today where are used contract development order to improve oral health communities. article, 'Look at it from I'm sitting - a patient', won UK Oral B Prevention Practice Award 1994. prize was attendance FDI world Dental Conference Gothenburg. article described pati...

The contributions of dental hygiene as a discipline of prevention, the inception of systemic fluoride in community water systems, the continual research conducted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), and the success of dental sealants have all contributed to the decrease in incidences of dental diseases. The prevalence of employer-based dental insurance must al...

In contemporary dental practice, the role of dental plaque fermentation in the dental caries disease process is well understood, but difficult to assay for and to demonstrate to patients as an educational and motivational tool. This paper provides an overview of the current concepts of dental plaque fermentation with reference to the health/unhealthy biofilm concept of dental plaque. It explain...

AIM This was to assess general dental practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and practice regarding their role within child protection in relation to child abuse. METHODS Structured interviews with seven key informants from general dental practice (2), local dental committees (1), social services (2), paediatric dentistry (1) and community child health (1), together with five focus groups compri...

A process of femininity has been recently occurring in the professions, mainly in the health field. In this study, the authors aimed at analyzing the dental practice by women as regards the income, degree of satisfaction and problems they have been facing. One hundred female dentists from Araçatuba, SP, were interviewed and answered a questionnaire designed for that purpose, which contained thi...

background: the graduated dentists who are working for the community health services are considered to be better judges to comment on the educational needs in accordance with the society prerequisites. the aim of this study was to investigate the educational provisions of the department of pediatric dentistry from the viewpoints of the graduated dentists of shiraz dental school. methods: a tota...

BACKGROUND Documenting standardized dental diagnostic terms represents an emerging change for how dentistry is practiced. We focused on a mid-sized dental group practice as it shifted to a policy of documenting patients' diagnoses using standardized terms in the electronic health record. METHODS Kotter's change framework was translated into interview questions posed to the senior leadership i...