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Association between salivary alpha-amylase and subjective and objective oral parafunctions in community-dwelling elderly individuals

open access: yesJournal of Dental Sciences, 2020
Background/purpose: Stress in the elderly is caused by loss of physical and psychological health. Although there have been many reports on the intraoral environment affecting physical health, few reports exist on stress and the intraoral environment in ...
Koji Morita   +5 more
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Exploring reasons why South African dental therapists are leaving their profession: A theory-informed qualitative study.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundDental therapy is a category of mid-level oral health professional that was introduced to address inequities in oral health service provision in South Africa within a constrained human resource for health context.
Pumla Pamella Sodo   +5 more
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Evaluation of dental status in relation to excessive horizontal and vertical overlap in North Indian population

open access: yesJournal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences, 2021
Introduction: Tooth wear (attrition) is a multifactorial entity, the pathogenesis of which involves many factors but the role of malocclusion cannot be undermined.
Anil Raj   +5 more
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3D Simulation Modeling of the Tooth Wear Process. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Severe tooth wear is the most common non-caries dental disease, and it can seriously affect oral health. Studying the tooth wear process is time-consuming and difficult, and technological tools are frequently lacking.
Ning Dai, Jian Hu, Hao Liu
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Forensic Age Estimation of Chinese Malaysian Adults by Evaluating Occlusal Tooth Wear Using Modified Kim’s Index

open access: yesInternational Journal of Dentistry, 2017
Background and Objective. Evaluation of dental attrition is an easy and relatively accurate approach to estimating the age of an adult either ante- or postmortem for some specific population.
Chai Kit Lu   +3 more
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Dental cervical lesions associated with occlusal erosion and attrition [PDF]

open access: yesAustralian Dental Journal, 1999
AbstractAcid demineralization of teeth causes occlusal erosion and attrition, and shallow and wedge‐shaped cervical lesions putatively involving abfraction. From 250 patients with tooth wear, 122 with cervical lesions were identified. From epoxy resin replicas of their dentitions, associations of occlusal attrition or erosion or no wear with cervical ...
Khan, F.   +3 more
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Preliminary Assessment of Risk Factors for Tooth Wear

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, 2017
Background: Epidemiological studies have reported an increasing prevalence of tooth wear, and general dental practitioners see a greater number of patients seeking treatment with worn dentition.
Birta Orsolya Beáta   +6 more
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Dental Manifestations and Oral Management of X-Linked Hypophosphatemia

open access: yesEndocrines, 2022
X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is the most common genetic form of rickets and osteomalacia and is characterized by growth retardation, deformities of the lower limbs, and bone and muscular pain.
Rena Okawa, Kazuhiko Nakano
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Risk factors for tooth wear lesions among patients attending the dental clinic of a Nigerian Teaching Hospital, Benin City: A pilot study

open access: yesSahel Medical Journal, 2015
Aims: This study was to evaluate the risk factors associated with tooth wear lesions in patients attending a dental clinic. Context: Tooth wear lesions entail the loss of dental hard tissues in the absence of caries or trauma.
Okeigbemen A Sunny   +2 more
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Estimation of Age by Evaluating the Occlusal Tooth Wear in Molars: A Study on Dakshina Kannada Population

open access: yesClinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dentistry, 2021
Amitha J Lewis,1 Chandni Sreekumar,2 N Srikant,1 Karen Boaz,1 KP Nandita,1 Nidhi Manaktala,1 Shweta Yellapurkar1 1Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal ...
Lewis AJ   +6 more
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