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The Importance of Nitrate Reduction for Oral Health

Journal of dentistry research, 2022
Salivary glands concentrate plasma nitrate into saliva, leading to high nitrate concentrations that can reach the millimolar range after a nitrate-rich vegetable meal.
B. Rosier   +7 more
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Measuring oral health: The Physical Oral Health Index

Journal of Dentistry, 2022
Oral health is an important component of a person's general health. Studies focusing on this issue need valid and reliable tools to assess oral health. Aim was to develop a comprehensive measure for physical oral health and to establish its measurement properties.The construct physical oral health was defined based on a systematic literature review and
Daniel R, Reissmann   +4 more
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Maintaining Oral Health

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1982
The prevention of dental disease plays a significant role in the comprehensive health care of children. This responsibility should be shared by the child, the parents, and the health care professional, and it is essential that programs be initiated early in life to incorporate the proper use of oral hygiene, fluoride, and appropriate dietary practice.
P G, Shelton, G A, Ferretti
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Infant Oral Health

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2018
It may be easy to discount oral health in infancy because most infants are not born with teeth and only a few teeth erupt during the first year of life. Infancy, however, is a critical time for formation of habits. Positive habits, such as twice-daily brushing with fluoride toothpaste starting at first teeth eruption, provides topical fluoride, which ...
Erica A, Brecher, Charlotte W, Lewis
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INFANT ORAL HEALTH

Dental Clinics of North America, 2000
According to the United Nations' Convention on "The Rights of the Child," articles 2 and 24, all children should have the same rights and have right to health and medical service. Early childhood caries is a lifestyle disease with biologic, behavioral, and social determinants.
S, Twetman   +2 more
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The oral health impact of electronic cigarette use: a systematic review

Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2020
Introduction: Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use is becoming more prevalent and is particularly popular among adolescents and conventional smokers.
Irene Yang   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Oral health week

British Dental Journal, 1996
This article reports on the Oral Health Week held in December 1994 and focuses on an initiative by the BDA which organised dentists and volunteers from Age Concern in a project to look at oral health for the elderly. It examines the aims and the results of the week and draws some useful conclusions on improving the outcome if a project such as this ...
J, Desmond   +3 more
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