BACKGROUND Dental anxiety is a public health problem but no epidemiological study has been undertaken in France to evaluate its prevalence. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence, severity and associations of dental anxiety in a sample of the French adult population. METHODS A convenience sample of 2725 adults (mean age = 47 years, SD16, minimum = 16, maximum = 101 years), repre...

The aim of this investigation was to study dental maturity in healthy prepubertal children of short stature (height<-2 SD), with or without growth hormone (GH) deficiency, compared to healthy controls. The GH-deficient group (GH level<10.0 microg/l) included 29 children (11 female, 18 male) with a mean age of 10.2+/-2.2 years. The GH non-deficient group consisted of 17 children (5 female, 12 ma...

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of dental and gingival pain and associated factors among Brazilian adolescents (15-19 years of age). Data from 16,126 adolescents who participated in the Brazilian Oral Health Survey SB-Brazil 2002-2003 were used. The outcome measured was dental and gingival pain in the last six months. Independent variables were per capita income, schooling,...

BACKGROUND This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of dental anxiety in a population of patients with Borderline Intellectual Functioning (BIF) and patients with mild and moderate intellectual disability (ID), and how dental anxiety correlated with their age and gender. METHODS The sample was made of 700 patients, 287 females and 413 males, 6-to-47 years old, either with borderline...

Introduction: Many epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine the prevalence of the various types of the dental anomalies. The aim of the present study was determination of developmental and acquired dental anomalies in patients attending the faculty of dentistry in Rasht, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, 1224 digital panoramic ra-diographs...

Dental hygiene is considered as a health indices in companion animals. The purpose of this study was to evaluate prevalence of dental problems in pet dogs in Shiraz, Iran. One hundred and fifteen pet dogs were chosen and classified into four age groups. Analyzed results showed that except for malocclusion all other dental problems increased with increasing age. It was also observed that some of...

BACKGROUND Dental age estimation in children plays an important role in forensic dentistry. The most commonly used method for age estimation was developed by Demirjian in 1973 on a French-Canadian sample. It generally overestimates dental age in many populations. International maturity standards were formed to obtain a predicted age with more confidence when ethnic origin was not available. O...

Forensic odontology has been a vital part in investigation and presenting any dental evidence in criminal cases, mass disasters etc. Currently it has been recognized as an important tool in sex determination as well. The current article describes various methods such as visual or clinical methods, microscopic methods and advanced methods which help in sex determination. Further, it highlights i...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to evaluate the dental age in Saudi children from panoramic radiographs using the Demirjian method to estimate their chronological age. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective cross-sectional study consisted of 1902 panoramic radiographs of 955 boys and 947 girls between the ages of 3-17 years. All children were placed in the age group closest to their chronolo...

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the levels of dental anxiety among patients undergoing various dental treatments and to compare the anxiety levels with those of similar studies conducted with subjects from different socio-cultural backgrounds. Dental anxiety was evaluated by the administration of a questionnaire based on the Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS). Student t-test and ana...