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Occlusion and Preventive Dentistry [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Journal of the American Dental Association, 1973
Uncontrolled occlusal stresses do not require the presence of dental plaque to produce disease. These stresses result from a disharmony between the temporomandibular joints and the teeth. Loose teeth, sore teeth, fractured teeth, wear facets, bone loss, clenching, bruxism, temporomandibular joint pain, chronic headaches, and chronic neckaches can ...
Thomas H. Ervin, Forrest R. Scandrett
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Lipids in preventive dentistry

Clinical Oral Investigations, 2012
There is still a great demand for the improvement of oral prophylaxis methods. One repeatedly described approach is rinsing with edible oils. The aim of the present review paper was to analyze the role of lipids in bioadhesion and preventive dentistry.Despite limited sound scientific data, extensive literature search was performed to illustrate ...
Kensche, Anna   +4 more
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Nanomaterials in preventive dentistry

Nature Nanotechnology, 2010
The prevention of tooth decay and the treatment of lesions and cavities are ongoing challenges in dentistry. In recent years, biomimetic approaches have been used to develop nanomaterials for inclusion in a variety of oral health-care products. Examples include liquids and pastes that contain nano-apatites for biofilm management at the tooth surface ...
Christian Hannig, Matthias Hannig
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A DEFINITION OF PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Public Health Dentistry, 1969
Dr. Gerrie, having found no satisfactory definition of Preventive Dentstry invites criticism of his definition from everyone who reads it.
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Preventive dentistry for the elderly

Special Care in Dentistry, 1983
SUMMARYPreventive dentistry for the elderly must be concerned with the four levels of prevention: initiation of disease, progression and recurrence, loss of function, and loss of life. The areas of greatest pertinence to the elderly are: caries, erosion and abrasion, periodontal disease, special considerations in restorative dentistry, oral cancer ...
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Education for preventive dentistry

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1959
Although dentistry in the United States has a relatively high standing, it could be improved in several ways. The quality of students entering dental schools should be raised; the curriculum should be more flexible; the differences in interests and abilities among students should be more fully recognized; students should be motivated by good examples ...
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Preventive dentistry and the child patient

Preventive Medicine, 1976
Abstract The backlog of untreated dental disease in the United States—sometimes categorized as the last great pandemic—is so extensive that any appreciable attempt at remedial resolution is, for all practical purposes, impossible. The only hope for the future of an adult population relatively free of dental disease is to concentrate on intensive ...
Lyonel S. Hildes   +2 more
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Forecasting progress in preventive dentistry

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1979
Abstract Technological forecasting is a new discipline with research methodologies of its own. One of the methods is the delphi‐experiment. Predictive experiments have been conducted in both medicine and pharmacology, but not yet in the field of dentistry and dental research. The first round of the present dental delphi‐experiment was conducted in 1975
Gert Strande‐Sørensen   +2 more
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Preventive dentistry for patients with dentures

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1968
Disharmony between centric relation and a changing centric occlusion as a result of overclosure in patients who wear dentures creates unfavorable oral conditions. Thus, preventive measures are needed for these patients.
Brien R. Lang   +3 more
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Challenge of preventive dentistry

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 1963
Eight hundred and ten children, 6 to 14 years old, from three different cities in Indiana, differing principally in the fluo­ ride content of the communal water sup­ plies, received dental examinations. D if­ ferences in the incidence of caries were pronounced.
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