Background and Objectives: Considering importance of food habits and possible roles of obesity in tooth decay, the present study was carried out to investigate relationships between dietary habits and body mass index (BMI) withtooth decay in 4–6 years old kindergartenchildrenin Ahwaz, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, 359 children were selected randomly from ...

The ability to afford needed dental care is the key difference between those children who miss school due to a dental problem and those who do not. Among all school age children, those who need dental care but cannot afford it are more likely to miss one or more school days due to dental problems Of the 7,240,000 school age children ages 5-17 in California, an estimated 504,000 (7%) missed at l...

background & aim:the major teeth problems associated with adults are: plaque, tartar, tooth decay, gingivitis, periodontal disease. there is a long and venerable history of the use of plants to improve dental health and promote oral hygiene. there are a number of traditional herbal remedies for the treatment and management of diseases related to teeth, gum and oral hygiene. good oral hygien...

Tooth decay is one of the most common infectious microbiological diseases in world. Dental cavities are now less than it was before water fluoridation put into place. Fluoride toothpastes a high calibre and excellent at preventing tooth decay. therapy administered by specialist helps prevent dental caries. Common fluoride agents include sodium (NaF), monofluorophosphate, stannous fluoride, silv...

Chromosome 18p deletion syndrome is caused by the deletion of a portion of genetic material on the short (p) arm of chromosome 18. Many of 100 prior case reports in the medical literature describing the dental health of subjects with this syndrome reported multiple caries associated with the syndrome. At the third annual international conference of The Chromosome 18 Registry & Research Society,...

Introduction: Oral and dental problems still remain a public health dilemma worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the oral health status and oral hygiene practice of dental students. Methods: 80 senior dental students were assigned to the study by using convenience sampling technique. A questionnaire was used to collect the information, which included two sections. The first sect...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to determine whether the oral-health-related quality of life (ORHQoL) and its dimensions differed among children with and without dental fear when different characteristics of fear were measured. MATERIAL AND METHODS The participants were 11- to 14-year-old Finnish child volunteers from the Oulu University Hospital cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) treatment register (n...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study is to reduce the high prevalence of tooth decay in children in a remote, rural Indigenous community in Australia, by application of a single annual dental preventive intervention. The study seeks to (1) assess the effectiveness of an annual oral health preventive intervention in slowing the incidence of dental caries in children in this community, (2) identify th...