The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relation between self-assessed dental status, oral behavior, dental anxiety, and DMF scores. The study was conducted among young army personnel (eighteen to twenty-one years old) who arrived at a single military dental clinic for dental screening. A questionnaire was used to collect the data anonymously. The questionnaire included self-assessment of...

Various factors will influence a dental graduate's decision to undertake postgraduate education and training, including encouragement from family, partners and staff at individual dental schools, although there is currently little information available regarding the number and distribution (by dental school) of recent dental graduates undertaking postgraduate studies. The aim of this study was ...

Dental decay is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide. A variety of factors, including microbial, genetic, immunological, behavioral and environmental, interact to contribute to dental caries onset and development. Previous studies focused on the microbial basis for dental caries have identified species associated with both dental health and disease. The purpose of the current st...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have reported an association between periodontal disease and mortality among dialysis patients. Therefore, preventive dental care should be considered very important for this population. In Japan, no systematic education has been undertaken regarding the importance of preventive dental care for hemodialysis patients--even though these individuals tend to have oral and ...

BACKGROUND Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) has been used to describe the consequences of oral health conditions and treatments in children. A better understanding of OHRQoL and its relationship with dental fear and previous dental experience is necessary to improve children's oral health status. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of dental history and experien...

The American Heart Association reports that approximately 220,000 people die each year of sudden cardiac arrest. In ventricular fibrillation (VF), the most common abnormal heart rhythm that causes cardiac arrest, the heart's electrical impulses suddenly become chaotic, often without warning. Death will follow within minutes if the victim is not treated appropriately, and the only known treatmen...

BACKGROUND Based on the hypothesis that a vicious cycle of dental fear exists, whereby the consequences of fear tend to maintain that fear, the relationship between dental fear, self-reported oral health status and the use of dental services was explored. METHODS The study used a telephone interview survey with interviews predominantly conducted in 2002. A random sample of 6,112 Australian re...

BACKGROUND HIV infected patients should be expected in the Sudanese dental health care services with an increasing frequency. Dental care utilization in the context of the HIV epidemic is generally poorly understood. Focusing on Sudanese dental patients with reported unknown HIV status, this study assessed the extent to which Andersen's model in terms of predisposing (socio-demographics), enabl...

Objectives Upon completion of this course, the reader will be able to: 1. Discuss the incidence of dental injury during general anesthesia. 2. Describe basic dental anatomy and the identification of both deciduous and adult teeth and common dental pathology. 3. Discuss the mechanism of dental injury during anesthesia. 4. Outline the steps of care provided to patients following dental injury. 5....

1Department of Oral Science, Kanagawa Dental University, Japan 2Institute of Oral Regenerative Medicine, Kanagawa Dental University, Japan 3Institute for Research of Disaster Dental Medicine in Yokosuka and Shonan, Japan 4Department of Cariology and Restrative Dentistry, Kanagawa Dental University, Japan 5Department of Prosthodontic Dentistry for Function of TMJ and Occlusion, Kanagawa Dental U...