Parents’ Oral Health Literacy and its Impact on their Children’s Dental Health Status
Introduction: Because parents play a key role in children’s dental health, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between parents’ oral health literacy (OHL) and their children’s dental health status in Babol, Iran.
Effat Khodadadi +3 more
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Development of a parents' short form survey of their children's oral health. [PDF]
BackgroundParents play an important role in their children's oral health behaviors, provide oral health access, initiate prevention, and coping strategies for health care.AimThis paper develops a short form (SF) to assist parents to evaluate their ...
Coulter, Ian +10 more
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Oral Health status in traditional and health
Background and Aim: Periodontal diseases and dental caries are two of the most common oral health problems. The present study was carried out to evaluate the oral and dental health indices of sixth grade primary school students. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 162 male and female students were randomly selected in two steps from ...
Ahmad Jafari +3 more
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Oral health and quality of life in the municipal senior citizen´s social clubs for people over 65 of Valencia, Spain [PDF]
The world population is aging considerably. The state of elderly´s dentition is poor. Many authors agree that the oral health status influence the elderly´s quality of life.The objective of our study was to analyze the relation between the oral health ...
Haya Fernández, Mª Celia +2 more
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Oral Health Behaviour and Oral Health Status of Elderly Vietnamese.
To describe oral health behaviours and problems among elderly Vietnamese as well as determine their prevalence of caries and periodontal disease.This cross-sectional study examined 258 elderly persons aged 65-74 years living in Danang, Vietnam. All subjects self-reported oral health behaviour and problems.
Minh Son, Nguyen +4 more
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Influence of the oral status on cardiovascular diseases in an older Italian population [PDF]
Oral diseases have been adversely associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which are also the most frequent cause of death in older population. The aim of this study was to investigate the association among oral status indexes and CVD in patients
Basili, Stefania +5 more
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Developing Children's Oral Health Assessment Toolkits Using Machine Learning Algorithm. [PDF]
ObjectivesEvaluating children's oral health status and treatment needs is challenging. We aim to build oral health assessment toolkits to predict Children's Oral Health Status Index (COHSI) score and referral for treatment needs (RFTN) of oral health ...
Coulter, ID +10 more
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Oral Health Status of Psychoactive Substance Abusers
Introduction: Among varied substance abuse, tobacco abuse is a common relapsing addiction among youth. The relationship of tobacco abuse in varying grades of dental caries (DC) is worthy of study. This study was planned with a null hypothesis, there is no difference in varying grades of DC in tobacco and related substance ...
Rashmi Bhavasar, Vandana Shah
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Influence of mother′s oral health care knowledge on oral health status of their preschool child
Aim: Children under 5 years of age generally spend most of their time with parents or guardians, especially mothers. Parents play a central role in giving children the information and encouragement needed for healthy lives. Parental oral health knowledge,
Raghavendra M Shetty +4 more
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Oral health status of disabled children
110 disabled and 110 normal healthy children with the age range from 3 to 14 were examined in this cross sectional study. The average number of decayed tooth found 5.6 in deciduous and 6.5 in mixed dentition in disabled children, and the numbers were 3.5 and 4.0 respectively in normal children.
Sultana Gul Nahar +3 more
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