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Assessment of the Calibration of Periodontal Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Among Dental Students at Three Dental Schools [PDF]
, 2015 Calibration in diagnosis and treatment planning is difficult to achieve due to variations that exist in clinical interpretation. To determine if dental faculty members are consistent in teaching how to diagnose and treat periodontal disease, variations ...
Blanchard, Steven +6 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background The present study aimed to develop and test an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB), which includes attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control, oral health knowledge, and past oral health behavior on the intention to ...
Hongyan Shi +11 more
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Semantic decomposition Network with Contrastive and Structural Constraints for Dental Plaque Segmentation [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Segmenting dental plaque from images of medical reagent staining provides valuable information for diagnosis and the determination of follow-up treatment plan. However, accurate dental plaque segmentation is a challenging task that requires identifying teeth and dental plaque subjected to semantic-blur regions (i.e., confused boundaries in border ...
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Willingness of High School Students to be Treated by an HIV Infected Health Practitioner: A Study Done in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2009 To assess willingness of high school students to be treated by HIV/AIDS infected dental practitioners in Ilala municipality, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. This was a descriptive cross-sectional study.
Alex, Kimambo
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Non HIV oral Kaposi Sarcoma: Rare case report literature review
Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2022 Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) is an intermediate neoplasm affecting the endothelial cells of mucous membranes and skin. It arises most commonly among HIV-infected individuals. Oral Kaposi's sarcoma of a HIV seronegative patient is extremely rare.
Harrizi Meriem +2 more
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DArch: Dental Arch Prior-assisted 3D Tooth Instance Segmentation [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Automatic tooth instance segmentation on 3D dental models is a fundamental task for computer-aided orthodontic treatments. Existing learning-based methods rely heavily on expensive point-wise annotations. To alleviate this problem, we are the first to explore a low-cost annotation way for 3D tooth instance segmentation, i.e., labeling all tooth ...
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Hepatitis C virus infection and oral lichen planus: A controversial association
Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2022 Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis that affects the mucous membrane of the oral cavity. Its clinical aspects are polymorphic.In 2016, the disease was organized into six subtypes, according to its clinical expression; erosive ...
Salma Adnane +3 more
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Improving Dental Experiences by Using Virtual Reality Distraction: A Simulation Study [PDF]
, 2014 Dental anxiety creates significant problems for both patients and the dental profession. Some distraction interventions are already used by healthcare professionals to help patients cope with unpleasant procedures. The present study is novel because it a)
Andrade, J +7 more
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Attrition in a Multi-Component Smoking Cessation Study for Females
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2006 Limiting attrition (i.e., participant dropout before the conclusion of a study) is a major challenge faced by researchers when implementing clinical trials.
Robert F. Leeman +6 more
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Case Reports in Dentistry, 2023 Regenerative endodontic procedure is an emerging alternative to traditional therapies for immature teeth with necrotic pulp with or without periapical lesions. This innovative approach, also known as revitalization procedures, is aimed at enhancing canal
Hong Van Le +2 more
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