This paper reviews some of the evidence of success for preventive dentistry in the global context and presents some challenges for preventive dentistry in the coming years. Rather than attempting a detailed analysis of individual countries the global view looks at trends and patterns of prevention, care and disease in the context of demographic and other societal changes. In citing examples fro...

The World Health Organization defines patient education as “any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.” This combination of learning experiences consists primarily of providing verbal and written material to the patient to improve their motivation to maintain oral health and prevent com...

Aim To explore the barriers to providing preventive dental care to patients, as perceived by Libyan dentists working in Benghazi. Settings and design A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey was conducted among dentists working in Benghazi, Libya. Materials and methods All dentists registered with the Dental Association of Benghazi and with 2 or more years of practice were invited to parti...

OBJECTIVES Determine the domain of preventive dentistry in nursing personnel assigned to a primary care unit. METHODS Prospective descriptive study, questionnaire validation, and prevalence study. In the first stage, the questionnaire for the practice of preventive dentistry (CPEP, for the term in Spanish) was validated; consistency and reliability were measured by Cronbach's alpha, Pearson's...

Tseveenjav Battsetseg. Preventive dentistry in Mongolia. Department of Oral Public Health, Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2004. 83 pp. ISBN 952-91-7349-0 The current study investigated preventive dentistry in Mongolia by assessing future and practicing dentists’ professional preventive practice and knowledge and the oral health outcomes dental professionals achieved fo...

1Senior lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, D J College of Dental Sciences and Research, Modinagar (U.P) India 2Senior lecturer, Department of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, D J College of Dental Sciences and Research, Modinagar (U.P) India 3Reader, Department of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, D J College of Dental Sciences and Research, Modinagar (U.P) Ind...

The prevention of tooth decay and the treatment of lesions and cavities are ongoing challenges in dentistry. In recent years, biomimetic approaches have been used to develop nanomaterials for inclusion in a variety of oral health-care products. Examples include liquids and pastes that contain nano-apatites for biofilm management at the tooth surface, and products that contain nanomaterials for ...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The modern dentistry approach is moving toward preventive dentistry, an approach that has decreased the prevalence of caries within the past decades. Since some reports imply that dentists are not knowledgeable enough in this issue. PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the attitude and awareness of future dental graduates toward preventive dentistry regarding gender and e...

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): cariostatic agents, community dentistry, community health planning, community health services, decision making, dental caries, evidencebased medicine, facial injuries, intervention studies, mouth protectors, oral health, pharyngeal neoplasms, pit and fissure sealants, practice guidelines, preventive dentistry, preventive health services, public health dentistry,...

1 PhD Candidate, Community Oral Health Department, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran; Preventive Dentistry Research Center, Dental Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 3 Associate Professor, ...