Background/Aim: The objective of this research was to evaluate the level oral hygiene, prevalence caries, and condition soft tissues in children adolescents referred for their first orthodontic examination. Material Methods: conducted at Department Orthodontics Sarajevo University - Faculty Dentistry with Dental Clinical Center. A total 300 patients mixed permanent dentition who were examinatio...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between salivary oxidative stress and dental-oral health. Healthy young adults, matched for gender and age, with (N = 21, 10 men, mean age: 20.3 +/- 1 years) and without (N = 16, 8 men, mean age: 21.2 +/- 1.8 years) caries were included in this study. The World Health Organization (WHO) caries diagnostic criteria were used for determ...

background : there is disagreement on the effect of diabetes on oral hygiene. the purpose of this study was to assess the oral health and hygiene status of type 1 diabetic patient. methods : in this case control study, periodontal health and hygiene of 80 children and adolescents (5–18 yr of age) with type 1 diabetes mellitus referred to pediatric endocrine clinic of besat hospital hamadan iran...

abstract introduction. end stage renal disease (esrd) is the last stage of the decending process of structural and functional distruction of kidneys. this process is often combined with acute diseases like glumerulonephritis and pyelonephritis. uremic smell of mouth, enamel hypoplasia and defects, increase in dental debries, periodontal diseases, considerable delay in bone and dental age and fa...

Data from Brazilian researches that evaluated oral health of elderly people show a worrisome situation. The purpose of this study was to estimate the frequency of edentulism, analyze both the use and need profiles of prosthesis, calculate the DMFT index and check the condition of periodontal elderly residents in the Federal District. One hundred and forty women aged 60 years or above were exami...

BACKGROUND During the past decades, the prevalence of caries disease in the population of Western industrialized countries has decreased markedly. In children also, a reduction of dental caries experience has been reported by many authors. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the trend of dental caries prevalence in 12-year-old children living in the city of Sassari, (Italy), by five cross-sec...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to investigate the dietary habits and oral health related behaviors in relation to the dental health status in terms of decayed, missing and filled teeth (DMFT index) of a group of young adults attending to a dental school located in a major city in Turkey. STUDY DESIGN A total of 416 young adults (247 females and 169 males) with an age range of 18-...

AIM The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to evaluate the relationship between childhood obesity and dental caries, in paediatric subjects, through the use of two methods of diagnosis of overweight-obesity: Body Mass Index (BMI), and Dual energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA). METHODS A total of 107 healthy patients, aged between 6 and 12 years (53.3% females, 46.7% males) were include...

To evaluate significant caries (SiC) index values and related factors in Turkish children aged 5-6 years old, children from 5 nursery schools in Istanbul were included in a cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic information and data about oral care habits were obtained from the records and from parents. Of 542 students examined, the mean decayed/missing/filled primary teeth (dmft) index was 3....