BACKGROUND Based on the hypothesis that a vicious cycle of dental fear exists, whereby the consequences of fear tend to maintain that fear, the relationship between dental fear, self-reported oral health status and the use of dental services was explored. METHODS The study used a telephone interview survey with interviews predominantly conducted in 2002. A random sample of 6,112 Australian re...

BACKGROUND HIV infected patients should be expected in the Sudanese dental health care services with an increasing frequency. Dental care utilization in the context of the HIV epidemic is generally poorly understood. Focusing on Sudanese dental patients with reported unknown HIV status, this study assessed the extent to which Andersen's model in terms of predisposing (socio-demographics), enabl...

Objectives Upon completion of this course, the reader will be able to: 1. Discuss the incidence of dental injury during general anesthesia. 2. Describe basic dental anatomy and the identification of both deciduous and adult teeth and common dental pathology. 3. Discuss the mechanism of dental injury during anesthesia. 4. Outline the steps of care provided to patients following dental injury. 5....

1Department of Oral Science, Kanagawa Dental University, Japan 2Institute of Oral Regenerative Medicine, Kanagawa Dental University, Japan 3Institute for Research of Disaster Dental Medicine in Yokosuka and Shonan, Japan 4Department of Cariology and Restrative Dentistry, Kanagawa Dental University, Japan 5Department of Prosthodontic Dentistry for Function of TMJ and Occlusion, Kanagawa Dental U...

background: the majority of individuals who visit the dentist are anxious. they are usually capable of controlling their anxiety. however, this fear sometimes creates great problems for the patient and dentist such as lack of visiting the dentist for treatment, incorrect diagnosis due to lack of appropriate communication between the patient and dentist, and finally, reduction of oral health lev...

Adult stem cells are multipotent and can be induced experimentally to differentiate into various cell lineages. Such cells are therefore a key part of achieving the promise of tissue regeneration. The most studied stem cells are those of the hematopoietic and mesenchymal lineages. Recently, mesenchymal stem cells were demonstrated in dental tissues, including dental pulp, periodontal ligament, ...

Community Health Centers (CHCs) are one of the principal safety-net providers of health care for low-income and uninsured populations. Co-locating dental services in primary care settings provides an opportunity to improve access to dental care. Yet this study of California CHCs that provide primary care services shows that only about one-third of them co-located primary and dental care service...

AIMS To compare the prevalence of high dental anxiety across a variety of past distressing experiences with a previously reported Dutch sample. METHOD University students from the UK (N=1024) completed an online survey containing; the Modified Dental Anxiety Scale, and the Level of Exposure-Dental Experiences Questionnaire (LOE-DEQ). Adjusted odds ratios (OR) were calculated to assess the ass...

OBJECTIVES We determined how elimination of dental benefits among adult Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon affected their access to dental care, Medicaid expenditures, and use of medical settings for dental services. METHODS We used a natural experimental design using Medicaid claims data (n = 22 833) before and after Medicaid dental benefits were eliminated in Oregon in 2003 and survey data fo...

D entistry is in the midst of a major transition. One key driver of change is the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which has many provisions relevant to the dental care sector. A key provision of the ACA is Medicaid expansion, which has the potential to reshape the dental benefits landscape considerably. Let’s first look at trends in Medicaid before ACA. For more than a decade, public health insuranc...