Millennials are a larger population with a very different in attitude, than Baby Boomers and should have a greater impact than Baby Boomers on the traditional American society and dentistry in particular. There are many reasons for their altered attitude, one of which is their brains have changed morphologically from the excess digital screen time at moment when the frontal lobes were maturing....

BACKGROUND In the recent past, the Russian Federation has seen a considerable increase in HIV caseload. A high level committee was formed to assess the status of dental infection control and safety (IC&S) in Russia. This article is one of the outcomes to assess the status of IC&S and is the research of a doctoral student (PhD) in public health. PURPOSE To assess needs in Dental Infection Cont...

BACKGROUND Criteria for a good dental practice as expressed by patients have influence on their behavior in terms of compliance with clinical advice, less pain and anxiety and more utilization of dental care. OBJECTIVE To assess the opinion of patients attending the dental clinic of a tertiary hospital Southwestern, Nigeria about their perception of a good dental practice. MATERIALS AND MET...

conclusions the relationship between cac found on dental panoramic radiographs and two cva risk factors--hypertension and mi-- was significant. therefore, it seems that detection of cac on panoramic images of dental patients must be considered by dentists. results among 200 studied samples, 22 of the patients (11%) had carotid artery calcification on the dental panoramic radiograph. in total, 5...

Clinical placements away from the dental school are now an integral and important component of dental education internationally. This article presents feedback from students on their experience in a remote rural clinical placement in Australia by year cohorts 2009, 2010, and 2011. An online feedback survey instrument and compulsory reflective journals were analyzed both by calendar year cohort ...

Different types of X-ray equipment are used in dental radiology, such as intra-oral, panoramic, cephalometric, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) units. Digital receptors have replaced film and screen-film systems and other technical developments have been made. The radiation doses arising from different types of examination are sparsely documented a...

Alprazolam is most commonly used benzodiazepine in overdose for deliberate self-poisoning. Glutaraldehyde cold sterilization of medical, surgical and dental equipment. Poisoning due to accidental exposure as well self-poisoning common with glutaraldehyde. Self-inflicted or hesitational cuts are associated suicide attempted suicidal gestures their examination an important task forensic expert.

The objective of this review is to identify preventive measures for COVID-19 safeguard dental professionals providing prosthodontic care. Electronic searches were performed in PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane databases using the following descriptors and/or words: “COVID-19,” “SARS-CoV-2,” “Dental practice,” “Prosthodontics,” infection control.” Prosthodontists are at high risk exposure novel coron...

Aims: Investigate the prevalence of hepatitis A, B and C and use of infection control procedures by dental health care workers. Methods: 284 dentists were submitted to hepatitis prevalence serologic analysis and answered a questionnaire about infection control practices. Results: three dentists were anti-HAV IgM positive. Anti-HBc was positive in 19 dentists, and one was positive for HBsAg and ...

BACKGROUND The authors aimed to determine whether electrical dental devices would interfere with the function of cardiac pacemakers or implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in humans. METHODS The authors exposed asymptomatic nonpacemaker-dependent patients to commonly used electrical dental equipment (for example, battery-operated curing lights, ultrasonic baths, ultrasonic scalers, ...