THE OBJECTIVE To examine whether audit and feedback could improve the quality of the application of dental sealant in rural Thai school children. RESEARCH DESIGN A single blind, cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted. CLINICAL SETTING Hospital-based and school-based school sealant applied by dental nurses in Southern province of Thailand. PARTICIPANTS Dental nurses and school c...

OBJECTIVES We tested a dental health program in remote Aboriginal communities of Australia's Northern Territory, hypothesizing that it would reduce dental caries in preschool children. METHODS In this 2-year, prospective, cluster-randomized, concurrent controlled, open trial of the dental health program compared to no such program, 30 communities were allocated at random to intervention and c...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of dental caries in patients with cleft lip and/or palate and their cleft-free sibling controls. METHODS The two subject groups (patient and control) comprised 106 participants. The former group consisted of 53 patients with cleft lip and/or palate,aged 12 to 29 years, who visited the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Hospital at Damascus University of Syria....

BACKGROUND This study tested the hypothesis that risk behaviours in disadvantaged groups would explain socio-economic inequality in dental caries prevalence among preschool children. METHODS Using a case-control study, children with caries experience (one or more decayed, missing or filled primary tooth surfaces) and with no caries experience were sampled with known probabilities from among f...

A randomized controlled parallel clinical trial was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of association 1.23% topical professional acidulated phosphate fluoride (APF) gel with oral hygiene and dietary instructions on arrest active non-cavitated lesions in permanent, mixed, temporary dentition children between 3 12 years age. Ninety-eight caries-active were randomly divided into two groups: a grou...

introduction: severe early childhood caries is the presence of smooth-surface caries in children younger than three years of age. this rampant form of dental caries exerts a negative impact on the quality of life of both the child and the family .the purpose of this study was to investigate the risk factors for severe early childhood caries (s-ecc) among 2-3 year-old children in rasht. material...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to evaluate the effect of argon laser irradiation on development and progress of enamel demineralization around orthodontic brackets. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty caries-free, intact human premolars were randomly assigned to one of the following five equal groups: Groups 1 (control) and 2: The brackets were bonded using conventional halogen light for 40s and a...

Caries are the localized destruction of the tissue s of the tooth by bacterial action; either enamel or cementum is demineralized by microbial acids. Traditionally the stem bark of Azadirachta indica was used to clean the teeth due to its antibacterial activity which reduced the incidence of dental caries. In modern life style, the use of Azadirachta indica was minimized and the incidence of de...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to characterize the impact of sickle cell disease (SCD) on oral health and examine its impact on quality of life. METHODS Fifty-four study subjects were recruited from the sickle cell clinic and 52 control subjects from the adolescent medicine clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. A dental exam was performed to determine each participa...

Introduction Children experiencing a caries-related dental general anaesthetic (GA) are at high risk of developing new caries. It is thus important to maximise opportunities for prevention. Aim To undertake pilot randomised controlled clinical trial (RCT) assess the feasibility delivering and evaluating effectiveness sealing sound permanent molars pre-GA assessment appointment in children needi...