BACKGROUND Little information exists about the experience of and risk factors for dental caries in young adults in Russia. We investigated dental caries experience and determinants in medical and dental students in North-West Russia. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 442 medical and 309 dental undergraduate students of Russian nationality aged 18-25 years from the Northern State Med...

BACKGROUND The prevention of childhood dental caries relies on adherence to key behaviours, including twice daily tooth brushing with fluoride toothpaste and reducing the consumption of sugary foods and drinks. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore parents' perceptions of barriers and facilitators that influence these oral health behaviours in children. A further objective was to exp...

Dear Editor, Dental caries and periodontal diseases are still considered the most frequent oral ailments and considered as public health problems, which could result in the loss of dental structures and its support. Although dentistry has experienced great advances, the prevention of dental caries and periodontal diseases are still the best form of treatment. 1 Therefore, education of patients ...

foreign body ingestion especially in large sizes is seen in children and people with mental illness like mental retardation. the patient is a 19-year-old woman without mental illness. she swallowed one tooth-brush during tooth- brushing, which passed through the esophagus and went in to the stomach and stuck there. after primary endoscopy, was determined that tooth-brush was adult size and its ...

INTRODUCTION Prader-Willi syndrome is a complex genetic disease caused by lack of expression of paternally inherited genes on chromosome 15q11-q13. The prevalence of Prader-Willi syndrome is estimated to be one in 10,000 to 25,000. However, descriptions of the oral and dental phenotype are rare. CASE PRESENTATION We describe the clinical presentation and periodontal findings in a 20-year-old ...