OBJECTIVE To provide a brief commentary review of strategies to control dental caries. Dental decay is one of man's most prevalent diseases. In many counties, severity increased in parallel with importation of sugar, reaching its zenith about 1950s and 1960s. Since then, severity has declined in many countries, due to the wide use of fluoride especially in toothpaste, but dental caries remains ...

Hospital emergency departments (eds) pRoVIde cRItIcal and highly-demanded services to communities, including treatment for emergency oral/dental problems. EDs also serve as dental safety net points of access for a significant number of low income and uninsured Rhode Island children and adults who have limited access to oral health care due to lack of dental insurance, immigration status, or a n...

Dental caries can be prevented by a combination of community, professional, and individual measures including water fluoridation, professionally applied topical fluorides and dental sealants, and use of fluoride toothpastes. Yet, tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Dental care is the most prevalent unmet health need in US children with wide disparities existing in oral ...

1 Oral health beliefs influence oral health behavior, and culture is a crucial component of beliefs and subsequent health actions (Kiyak, 1993). Although the oral health beliefs of several population subgroups have been investigated (see the Alaska Native population is largely unstudied in this realm. This study examines oral health beliefs of the unique Alaska Native population to better serve...

No dental decay was detected. Neither was bone/root resorption. From a periodontal perspective, the patient has quite satisfactory gingival health. He has a stable posterior occlusion after the orthodontic treatment (Figure 1). Whenever esthetic procedures are considered, emphasis must be put on gingival health. Thus, brushing technique had to be optimized. Periodontal treatment, including scal...

Neutrino decay in vacuum has often been considered as an alternative to neutrino oscillations. Because non-zero neutrino masses imply the possibility of both neutrino decay and neutrino oscillations, we present a model-independent formal treatment of these combined scenarios. For that, we show for the example of Majoron decay that in many cases decay products are observable and may even oscilla...

BACKGROUND Dental caries is the world's most prevalent childhood disease. School-based caries prevention can reduce the risk of childhood caries by increasing access to care. However, the optimal mix of treatment services, intensity, and frequency of care is unknown. METHODS Data were derived from two prospective cohorts of US children participating in two caries prevention programs with diff...

Dental decay prevalence in the primary dentition continues to maintain high levels in the infant population, despite the efforts and advances that have been made in the field of oral health prevention programs [1]. This situation increases the possibilities of pulp involvement due to the presence of deep caries, leading pulp to an irreversible state, implying the need to perform a pulp treatmen...

BACKGROUND Dental caries (tooth decay) is a significant public health problem in Alaska Native children. Dietary added sugars are considered one of the main risk factors. In this cross-sectional pilot study, we used a validated hair-based biomarker to measure added sugar intake in Alaska Native Yup'ik children ages 6-17 years (N = 51). We hypothesized that added sugar intake would be positively...

A smile from any Australian, young or old, tells an instant story of a dental divide that is painful, costly and harmful to health and wellbeing. Their oral health and dentition are measures of their socioeconomic status, employability and self-esteem and predictors of their physical health. Oral diseases can ravage the rest of the body and physical illnesses and trauma affect oral health.1 Mor...