OBJECTIVE To compare survival rates and cost differentials between the atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) technique and amalgams by type of dental personnel in Ecuador, Panama, and Uruguay. METHODS Children 7 to 9 years of age in rural and urban schools with at least one lesion with initial cavitated enamel caries or a dentinal lesion on a first permanent molar were selected and randomize...

PURPOSE The purpose of this 10-year, retrospective, cohort study was to evaluate the success of permanent molar sealants by comparing the effectiveness of sealants placed by dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants in a private dental practice, with all operators using an identical, standardized, application technique and 4-handed dentistry. METHODS From 810 patient records that met...

Dentistry has become increasingly competitive over the last decade. Some of the major causes are the increasing supply of new dentists, more dental substitutes (auxiliaries), changing patterns of dental demand and the increasing bargaining power and sophistication of buyers. Despite these competitive pressures, dentistry remains an attractive industry, and expenditures on dental services have i...

Self-reliant oral health behavior exert great influence on the oral health of our society. The aim of the present study was to find out whether there is an occupation-related difference in the oral health behavior between dental students, students of other disciplines, and fashion models in German-speaking Switzerland. The survey comprised 19 questions which were asked using a web-based anonymo...

The purpose of the study was to determine the contribution of nursing auxiliaries towards health care services, against their scope of practice. The sample consisted of nursing auxiliaries in the Gazankulu area, in the Northern Transvaal. The findings revealed that nursing auxiliaries are presently an essential component of nursing services rendered in Gazankulu, but that apart from their presc...

This paper focuses on two disparate aspects of German syntax from the perspective of parallel grammar development. As part of a cooperative project, we present an innovative approach to auxiliaries and multiple genitive NPs in German. The LFG-based implementation presented here avoids unnessary structural complexity in the representation of auxiliaries by challenging the traditional analysis of...

1.1 Dyeing auxiliaries Auxiliaries are compounds which are not an integral part of the dyeing process but by adding them to the dye bath the dyeing can be improved. The main functions of auxiliaries are to prepare or improve the substrate in readiness for colorants (by wetting, providing sorption sites, improving or resisting the migration of dyes), to stabilize the application media (by improv...