Dental care of the chronically ill child
The appellation “chronically ill” indi cates a prolonged morbidity interfering with the function or form, or both, of a part or the whole of the human organ ism—prolonged because the disease can not be cured or the organism restored to “normal condition” by known methods of treatment. To take each known chronic condition in children and describe the
Paul K. Losch
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Contribution of dental treatment to reducing mortality in the ICUs: a 6-year retrospective analysis [PDF]
The aim of this study was to evaluate dental treatment outcomes and safety in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Data collected included the frequency of dental interventions, the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), patient demographics ...
Marcos Barbosa Pains +4 more
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Dental Care for the Chronically Ill, the Aged, and the Handicapped [PDF]
H. Barry Waldman
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Removal of Chlorhexidine for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention with a Dentist Composing the Intensive Care Unit Team [PDF]
Marcos Barbosa Pains,1– 3 Isabel Verlangeiro Vieira,4 Arthur Rollemberg Cruciol Figueiredo,4 Suzaynne Corrêa Bittencourt Diniz,3 Paulo Tadeu Souza Figueiredo4 1School of Public Health of the Federal District, Foundation for Teaching and Research in ...
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Community Planning for Dental Care of the Chronically Ill and Disabled
Marvin P. Sheldon
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Maxillofacial Protheses in the Aesthetic-functional Rehabilitation of Cancer Patients
Introduction: Maxillofacial prostheses are a therapeutic option for repairing affected structures in the facial and/or intraoral region of cancer patients submitted to surgery.
Lísia Daltro Borges Alves +3 more
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Oral health education for systemic sclerosis patients: A booklet report
Purpose/objectives: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare chronic autoimmune disease characterized by vascular abnormalities and connective tissue disorders.
Thalles G. Almeida +11 more
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Oral rehabilitation of a patient with temporomandibular joint ankylosis caused by ankylosing spondylitis: A case report [PDF]
Introduction. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS)/Morbus Bechterew is a chronic inflammatory rheumatoid disease. The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction is involved in 4–35% of AS cases, and is correlated to the severity and extension of AS. Even though AS-
Brkić Zlata +3 more
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Utilisation of dental services for people with special health care needs in Australia
Background To explore the profile of patients and treatment delivered at specialist referral centres for individuals with special needs. Methods A cross-sectional audit was conducted of the health records of all patients with appointments at two of ...
Mathew Albert Wei Ting Lim +2 more
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Oral management of patients with cancer
The oral management of individuals affected by medical conditions, including those with a current cancer diagnosis, is often complex and as such should be provided by either experienced dentists or dental specialists (e.g.
Claudia Patricia López-Silva +3 more
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