1 Universidade Federal de Viçosa – UFV, Department of Nutrition and Health, Area of Public Health, Viçosa, MG, Brazil. 2 Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF, Dental School, Department of Specific Formation, Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil 3 Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP, Piracicaba Dental School, Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, Area of Biostatistics, Piracicaba, SP, ...

Probiotics in Treatment and Prevention of Periodontal Diseases: A Systemic Review Kakarla Priyanka1, Kudlur Maheswarappa Sudhir2, V. Chandra Sekhara Reddy3, R.V.S Krishna Kumar2,, G. Srinivasulu4 Department of Public Health Dentistry, Narayana Dental College and Hospital, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Narayana Dental College and Hospital, Nellor...

Contributors: 1Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India; 2Post-graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Correspondence: Dr. Rushabh J. Dagli, Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Vyas Dental College & Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Email: r.j...

1 School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, 2 Northern Ireland Centre for Stratified Medicine, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Ulster, C-TRIC Building, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, United Kingdom, 3 Care of Elderly Medicine, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, United Kingdom, 4 Regional G...

background there is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. thus, this study examines: i) differences in health care costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, ii) whether these differences vary by source of cost-data (self-report vs. administrative), and iii) predi...

this commentary on the editorial ‘the politics and analytics of health policy’ by professor calum paton focuses on two issues. first, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...

Panel I comprised of pediatric dentists, an attorney, child psychologists, parents, a specialist in early childhood education, and a pediatrician. The purpose of this panel was to discuss: (1) 8 questions that dealt with the appropriateness and effectiveness of current behavior management techniques; (2) the scientific support for those techniques; and (3) the role of the pediatric dentist in m...

Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, National Defense Medical Center and Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC b Section of Dentistry, Zuoying Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC Department of Pathology, Zuoying Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei,...