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Oral Health and Well‐Being: Insights From Personal Narratives of Losing Teeth and Living With Dentures

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To explore how individuals who have lost or have missing teeth and subsequently received dentures make sense of the factors influencing their oral health and well‐being. Methods Thematic and structural narrative analysis was used to evaluate 19 semi‐structured interview transcripts from a secondary dataset of United Kingdom adults ...
Heba Ramadan Salama, Jennifer Burr, Claire Elcock, Barry John Gibson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can a Low‐Threshold Check‐Up Motivate Older Adults to Schedule a Dental Visit? A Randomized Controlled Trial

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Oral disorders are an important disability driver in adults aged 70 and older, who often experience greater tooth loss and higher levels of untreated oral disease than younger persons. Despite the importance of regular dental visits, older adults attend dental services less frequently, facing several barriers.
Aster De Vleeschauwer, Roos Colman, Peter Pype, Louise Poppe, Barbara Janssens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of the Dental Implant in Removable Partial Dentures

, 2015
Dental implants, as a helpful adjunct of prosthodontics, may have a key role in partial denture retention as well as stability and support. Not only being a step back solution after loss of several implants, having been placed for a fixed solution, but ...
Hakan Bilhan, Bilhan, H.
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“Our Community Needs More Information About Oral Health”: Co‐Designing a Culturally Grounded Oral Health Promotion Training With Aboriginal Health Workers and Practitioners

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Oral health is central to holistic wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, yet mainstream promotion approaches often rely on individualistic models that fail to reflect Community realities. Aboriginal Health Workers and Practitioners (AHW/Ps), as trusted Community members and the only nationally registered ...
Madison Cachagee, Ashleigh Smith, Priscilla Larkins, Michael Larkin, Dandara Haag, Eleanor Parker, Emily Minh‐An Bui, Lisa Jamieson, Brianna Poirier   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Community 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, Peter G. Robinson, Barry J. Gibson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnosis of oral hygiene status in people of different age groups and with different duration of removable dentures use with the help of a new computer program

Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2019
Objective of the work was to determine the effectiveness of the proposed oral hygiene (OH) system for patients of different age groups and with different duration of removable dentures use with the help of a computer program for the oral hygiene index ...
T. M. Dmytryshyn
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Inequalities and Oral Health Among Adults and Elderly People in Rural Riverside Communities in the Amazon, Brazil

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To examine the extent to which socioeconomic and environmental characteristics are associated with oral health outcomes among adults and elderly people living in rural riverside communities in the Brazilian Amazon. The study also examined the mediating role of self‐reported dental status and reason for the last dental visit in these
Emmanuelle de Fátima Noberto Bezerra, Ana Paula Corrêa de Queiroz Herkrath, Fernando José Herkrath, Luiza Garnelo, Sully de Souza Sampaio, Mario Vianna Vettore   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic and Oral Characteristics of Convalescent Inpatients Requiring Oral-Health Management by a Dental Specialist during Hospitalization

Geriatrics
Older adults often experience poor oral functions, hindering rehabilitation post-acute disease treatment. However, characteristics of hospitalized patients who would benefit from professional oral-health management (POHM) have not been clarified ...
Naoki Todayama, Ryuzo Hara, Tomohiro Tabata, Yukiko Hatanaka, Tomoko Mukai, Mika Someya, Miki Kuwazawa, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Shouji Hironaka, Nobuyuki Kawate, Junichi Furuya   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prosthetic stomatitis with removable dentures [PDF]

, 2012
The Research Objective: To study patients with prosthetic stomatitis, who use the removable laminar dentures. Materials: The consultations and treatment of 79 patients aged 47-65 years have been conducted. The patients have been divided into two clinical
Googe L.A., Rozalieva Yu.Yu.
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Cultural and Social Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health: Understanding Oral Health Inequities in Canada, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Australia

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This cross‐sectional study examined the cultural and social determinants of health in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia and their relevance to the oral health of Indigenous pregnant women. Methods An Indigenous framework was applied to a social determinants of health (SDH) model, Charlotte Loppie's Tree Metaphor, utilising data from
Herenia P. Lawrence, John R. Broughton, Lisa M. Jamieson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source