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Financial Burden in Dental Care: Global Determinants, Policy Interventions and Access Inequities—A Scoping Review

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Access to dental care is often limited by financial, structural and social factors, contributing to persistent oral health inequalities globally. This scoping review systematically maps and synthesizes how financial pressures influence access, service utilization and oral health outcomes, particularly among underserved and vulnerable
Karthik Madhavan, Sheryl Ann Sajan
wiley   +1 more source

Lead in the placenta, membranes, and umbilical cord in relation to pregnancy outcome in a lead-smelter community. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Health Perspect, 1991
Baghurst PA   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Defining Disability in Oral Health Policy and Practice in the UK

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives In the United Kingdom (UK), disabled people face barriers accessing dental care, leading to poor oral health. To understand these barriers, the present study examined how disability is defined and conceptualised in UK oral health policy documents, and explored the implications of these framings for the provision of dental care for ...
K. Rijhwani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Determinants and the Limits of the Clinical Model in Periodontal Disease

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Periodontitis remains one of the most prevalent chronic diseases worldwide and is strongly socially patterned. However, contemporary disease classifications and guideline‐based management largely emphasise individualised, clinically intensive, long‐term maintenance approaches.
Fábio R. M. Leite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Ethnography of Teeth Whitening Industry: How Professional Power Becomes Commercial Power in Dentistry

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to demonstrate how power is exercised, and by whom, to expand the practice of teeth whitening in dentistry and the resultant consequences for the public. Methods Institutional ethnography (IE) conducted in England that included 100 h of observations at cosmetic dentistry conferences, training and treatments; five ...
Rizwana Lala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geoinformation‐Based Analysis of Oral Health Status Among Indigenous Young Adults

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to characterise the Xukuru do Ororubá Indigenous population in Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil, in relation to the oral health status through geoinformation tools. Methods A cross‐sectional observational study, nested within a cohort study, was conducted in 2018.
Herika de Arruda Mauricio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogenomic analysis of ultraconserved elements clarifies relationships and morphological evolution in Cryptoplacoidea (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)

open access: yesCladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Targeted enrichment of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) is a powerful tool for resolving phylogeny in groups with limited morphological or molecular data. Here, we use UCEs to reconstruct the first comprehensive phylogeny of the chiton superfamily Cryptoplacoidea, including museum material up to 133 years old.
Katarzyna Vončina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A revised classification system of the marronoid clade of spiders (Araneae), based on dense sampling phylogenomics and comparative morphology

open access: yesCladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The marronoid clade is a globally distributed, ecologically diverse group of spiders. It is an important faunal component in both natural and synanthropic environments, and even found in aquatic and extreme habitats such as desert salt flats. The systematics of the marronoid clade has been notoriously unstable due to the widespread character ...
Jonas O. Wolff   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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