BACKGROUND Clinical validation of laboratory toothbrushing tests has important advantages. It was, therefore, the aim to demonstrate correlation of tooth cleaning efficiency of a new robot brushing simulation technique with clinical plaque removal. METHODS Clinical programme: 27 subjects received dental cleaning prior to 3-day-plaque-regrowth-interval. Plaque was stained, photographically doc...

background: oral care plays an inevitable role in health and well-being of patients in intensive care units (icus). poor oral care causes colonization of respiratory pathogens and secondary respiratory infections. ventilator-associated pneumonia occurs in patients on mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours. it results in prolonged duration of mechanical ventilation, mortality and health e...

Tooth and mouth disease, a dental health problem in the community, is tooth-supporting tissue (periodontal disease) dental/dental cavities. The causes of caries include food consumption, maintenance, teeth’ condition. In Indonesia, children very important major oral diseases. survey conducted by Indonesian Dental Health Foundation (YKGI) 2003 on Jakarta showed that 70% suffered gum inflammation...

BACKGROUND Little is known of the motives for tooth-brushing among adolescents in resource-poor settings. AIM To investigate the principal motive for tooth-brushing among a rural population of South African adolescents. METHODS The participants were high school students between the ages of 12 and 19 years who provided baseline data during 2005 as part of a tobacco use prevention trial (n = ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of maternal dental health education and tooth-brushing instruction on the levels of mutans streptococci in pre-school children. METHODS One hundred and seven children (44 boys and 63 girls) with a mean age of 20.5 months, randomly selected from a community child health clinic within a 2-week period, participated in this study. Medic...

background: oral and dental caries are the most prevalent diseases in the world. the aim of this study was to determine the predictors of oral health care in adults based on health belief model in isfahan, iran.   methods: in this cross-sectional (descriptive and analytical) study on 274 patients from the school of dentistry, isfahan university of medical sciences were selected by a simple rand...

The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of bleaching toothpastes, both conventional and those containing the new whitening agent Blue Covarine, on teeth previously bleached by conventional techniques (in-office and at-home). Squared bovine enamel/dentin blocks (6.0 x 6.0 x 2.0 mm) were randomly distributed in 6 groups (n = 15), according to the technique used to bleach them (in-of...

Objective. To evaluate oral health literacy, independent of other oral health determinants, as a risk indicator for self-reported oral health. Methods. A cross-sectional population-based survey conducted in Tehran, Iran. Multiple logistic regression analysis served to estimate the predictive effect of oral health literacy on self-reported oral health status (good versus poor) controlling for so...