OBJECTIVES Receiving proper dental care plays a significant role in maintaining good oral health. We investigated the relationship between regional deprivation and dental care utilization. METHODS Multilevel logistic regression was used to identify the relationship between the regional deprivation level and dental care utilization purpose, adjusting for individual-level variables, in adults a...

statement of problem: dental caries are considered as one of the most common health problems and have been shown to be more prevalent in children. purpose: the aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the distribution of dental caries among 400 twelve-year-old schoolchildren, in the al-mukalla area in yemen. materials and methods: multistage stratified sampling was used to obtain a sa...

BACKGROUND Can the entry of a policy entrepreneur challenge the equilibrium of a policy network and promote changes that might clash with the goals of powerful civil-servants and/or interest groups and, if so, why and how? Our goal is to examine two sides of the same coin: how does an in-depth analysis of Israel's dental care reform enrich our understanding of policy networks and policy entrepr...

Dental Surgeons working in public sector have an important role to play in school dental health program to reinstitute the oral and dental health of growing population of India. Even though the oral health policy was drafted in India in 1995, it was not implemented till this date (1). It is important to enhance the knowledge about good oral health in teachers and parents by caring out workshops...

Ms. Jacquelyn L. Fried is Associate Professor and Director of the Dental Hygiene Program in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the University of Maryland Dental School. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Certificate in Dental Hygiene from the Ohio State University. She also holds a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene from Old Dominion University. She...

6. Lewis DW, Ismail AI. Preventive Dental Care (Chapter 36). Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1994. 7. US Preventive Services Task Force cited in Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Canadian guide to clinical preventive health care. Ottawa: Canada Communication Group, 1994: 408-431. 8. Allister J, Stewart J, Spencer ...

PURPOSE In addition to dental education, a system for the evaluation and management of dental licensing and certification is required to meet the growing societal demand for more competent dentists. In this study, the Delphi technique was used to gather opinions from a variety of professionals on the problems of and remedies for the dental license management system in Korea. METHODS Delphi su...

BACKGROUND Documenting standardized dental diagnostic terms represents an emerging change for how dentistry is practiced. We focused on a mid-sized dental group practice as it shifted to a policy of documenting patients' diagnoses using standardized terms in the electronic health record. METHODS Kotter's change framework was translated into interview questions posed to the senior leadership i...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effects of socio-environmental factors on dental caries in different demographic situations in Asian populations. We investigated whether the nature of the association between regional socio-economic context and dental caries experience differed according to gender and age groups in Korean adults. METHODS We obtained a linked data set containing individual...