BACKGROUND Even though it has been widely studied, early childhood caries (ECC) remains a serious public health problem, especially in countries where there is no national program of oral health assessment and no genuine primary oral health care, such as in Kosovo. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of ECC and analyze caries risk factors. METHODS The subjects were 1,008 pr...

BACKGROUND To evaluate oral health in postmenopausal women and verify whether there is a correlation between tooth loss according to index of decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT) and bone mineral density (BMD). METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted with 100 women. The DMFT and its associations with lumbar and femoral BMD (T-score and g/cm) were assessed. Analysis of covariance and mu...

Introduction: Dental caries is still a major health problem in most countries as it school-aged children and adults also. continues to be public problem, especially low- middle- income countries. It can prevented treated with proper utilization of dental services. Untreated have pain infection significant impact on general health. Method: This study was conducted assess the untreated using pufa...

Aim: to assess prevalence and severity of dental caries (DMFT for permanent dentition dmft primary dentition) among Libyan children. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study including a random sample 372 children was conducted in Benghazi. Experience assessed by decayed, missing, filled teeth DMFT indices using WHO criteria diagnosing caries. The data were entered managed SPSS software ve...

We propose a fast impurity solver for the general quantum impurity model based on the perturbation theory around the atomic limit, which can be used in combination with the local density approximation LDA and the dynamical mean-field theory DMFT . We benchmark the solver in the two-band Hubbard model within DMFT against quantum Monte Carlo QMC and numerical renormalization-group NRG results. We...

AIM To describe the oral health status and investigate factors affecting dental caries experience among children with cerebral palsy (CP) in rural Bangladesh. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted among children with CP who are part of the Bangladesh Cerebral Palsy Register (BCPR) study. Caries experience was measured by identifying decayed, missing, and filled teeth for deciduous and ...

The aim of this study was to verify the relationship between type of school as a measure of socioeconomic conditions and caries prevalence among preschoolers and schoolchildren in Rio Claro, São Paulo State, Brazil, a city with fluoridated water supply. The data were secondary, from a sample of 888 children 5 to 12 years old enrolled in private and public schools. Caries was measured by the dmf...

We formulate a bosonic dynamical mean-field theory B-DMFT which provides a comprehensive, thermodynamically consistent framework for the theoretical investigation of correlated lattice bosons. The B-DMFT is applicable for arbitrary values of the coupling parameters and temperature and becomes exact in the limit of high spatial dimensions d or coordination number Z of the lattice. In contrast to...

The present cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the prevalence of caries and treatment needs among 127 institutionalized subjects aged 5-22 years attending a special school for students with hearing impairment in Udaipur City, Rajasthan, India. The data were collected using the methods and standards recommended by the WHO for oral health surveys, 1997. Dentition status and treatment n...

There are universal patterns of caries, in terms of prevalence, incidence, frequency distribution and rates of progression, in permanent teeth that can be considered working rules that can be applied when planning dental care. The universal patterns are: (1) caries levels follow trend lines; therefore, knowing the caries level at one age can be used to predict the levels at later ages in that c...