OBJECTIVE To test the hypotheses that 1) there is no difference between orthodontic patients' and their parents' reports of patients' oral health-related quality of life, and 2) there are no gender differences. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample consisted of 182 orthodontic patients (age range, 8-15) and their parents. Respondents were required to complete the Child Oral Health Impact Profile (...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this article was to examine event-level associations between alcohol use and sexual risk taking across first and repeat oral and vaginal sex encounters among at-risk college student drinkers. METHOD Participants (n = 221; 51.1% women) provided information on alcohol consumption, sexual activity, and event-level data on their most recent (repeat and first) experien...

OBJECTIVE There are limited data on the patterns of early sexual behaviours among Australian teenage heterosexual boys. This study describes the nature and onset of early sexual experiences in this population through a cross-sectional survey. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey between 2014 and 2015 SETTING: Major sexual health clinics and community sources across Australia PARTICIPANTS: Heterose...

Men perform oral sex on their romantic partner as part of a broader benefit-provisioning mate retention strategy and men higher in Agreeableness are especially likely to provision their partner with benefits. The current research explored whether men's benefit-provisioning mate retention behavior mediated the relationship between their Agreeableness and their oral sex behaviors in their long-te...

the aim of this retrospective statistical study was to determine the prevalcence and frequency of age and sex distributions of pemphigus disease. pemphigus disease classified as autoimmune bullous dermatoses which is a chronic mucocutaneous disease.this study was performed in razi hospital and department of oral pathology of dental school, tehran university of medical sciences. the most frequen...

The General Practice Research Database was used to examine prescribing of the combined oral contraceptive pill for females aged under 16 in England and Wales in 1997. From these data, calculations were made to estimate prevalence for these countries; family planning clinic return data were combined with the general practice estimates to give an overall figure of 4.2 per 100. This extent of use ...

melanoma of the oral cavity is a rare malignant disease. on account of the presence at relatively obscure areas in the oral cavity, most of oral malignant melanomas are diagnosed at a late stage. early diagnosis is essential for successful treatment and perhaps is the key factor in improving the prognosis of oral malignant melanoma. however, no large clinical series exist, and in fact, clinical...