OBJECTIVES To evaluate the intensity and location of musculoskeletal pain suffered by students and professors from different postgraduate programs of the School of Dentistry of the University of Barcelona (Spain), to identify the variables related to the occurrence of musculoskeletal symptoms and signs, and to establish possible preventive measures for such disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS A ...

Physicians who provide primary care for children have a unique position to provide diagnostic, triage, educational, and preventive dental care for patients. Several papers have been published regarding primary pediatricians' participation in the preventive dental health care of their patients. One publication, a survey of physicians in Alabama focusing on physicians' overall awareness of dental...

It is now universally recognized that the development of new technologies for early detection and quantitative monitoring of dental decay at an early stage of formation could provide health and economic benefits ranging from timely preventive interventions to reduction in the time required for clinical trials of anticaries agents. The use of technologies as adjunct to clinical visual examinatio...

Background Oral diseases, particularly dental caries, remain one of the most common chronic health problems for adolescents, and are a major public health concern. Public dental services in New South Wales, Australia offer free clinical care and preventive advice to all adolescents under 18 years of age, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This care is provided by dental therapis...

Erratum to “Development of an instrument for community-level health related social capital among Japanese older people: The JAGES project” [J Epidemiol 27 (5) (2017) 221e227] Masashige Saito a, b, , Naoki Kondo , Jun Aida , Ichiro Kawachi , Shihoko Koyama , Toshiyuki Ojima , Katsunori Kondo b, g, h a Department of Social Welfare, Nihon Fukushi University, Aichi, Japan b Center for Well-being an...

Caries lesion progression is highly dynamic process characterized by alternating periods of dissolution and redeposition of minerals in the dental hard tissue. When outcome of these processes overtime is a net loss of mineral, a caries lesion develops or progresses. However, when redeposition of mineral predominates, the result may be arrest of lesion progression or remineral ization. Clinical ...

Introduction: White spot lesions (WSL) develop because of a prolonged buildup plaque on the surface teeth, commonly due to improper oral hygiene. The non-invasive options available in pediatric dentistry for WSL include application fluoride gel and desensitizing agents, addition resin infiltration technique. Objective: Analyze literature white dentistry, know etiology, epidemiology, prevention,...