Regular utilization of dental services helps to improve and maintain oral and general health, even in old age. However, utilization behavior for dental services changes with age: preventive utilization behavior is often replaced by a symptom-driven one. With age, a decrease in the utilization of dental services can be observed, whilst the frequency of contact with physicians increases. The pres...

1. Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Awadh Dental College & Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 2. Reader, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, Awadh Dental College & Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Awadh Dental College & Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 4. Assistant Professor, Department o...

Dental research is greatly handicapped by the fact that the training of dental students has necessarily to contain so vast an amount of the purely mechanical. Secondly, the almost complete absence of full-time teaching or other dental appointments at the universities is a bar to research. Thirdly, the lack of co-operation between the medical specialists and the dentists is a great handicap to p...

BACKGROUND Extensive caries in children can result in a referral for tooth extraction under General Anaesthesia (GA). While there are guidelines for the use of GA within paediatric dentistry this process is ultimately dependent upon the decision making of the treating dentist. This decision can be influenced locally by the availability of services and their waiting list. GA services for paediat...

introduction : this study was carried out to estimate toothache prevalence among adult residents in kerman. materials and methods: this cross-sectional, population-based study was conducted among individuals aged over 18 years ( n =1800). the relevant data on the prevalence of toothache and associated factors were collected by interviewing the individuals in their homes and filling out a questi...

Oral Medicine, Radiology & Diagnosis, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Jodhpur Dental College Jodhpur Dental College General Hospital, Jodhpur, Rajast...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has occurred for almost 2 years, infected more than 200 countries in the world, made hospital conditions change service strategy provided. Services that are usually provided during normal times, must starting from screening patients on arrival until ends. When referral hospitals trying to save with COVID-19, other hospitals, especially dental and oral also participa...