Dental caries experience among school children of Eastern Nepal - significant caries index
Background: Dental caries, an infectious microbiologic disease of dental hard tissues, is a common public health problem worldwide. The distribution of dental caries studied in any population, shows that a few in the population experience a lot of decayed teeth and most do not experience any at all or experience very little.Objective: To assess the ...
A Shrestha, T K Bhagat
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Comparative Clinical Study Testing the Effectiveness of School Based Oral Health Education Using Experiential Learning or Traditional Lecturing in 10 Year-Old Children [PDF]
Background School based oral health education through traditional lecturing has been found successful only in improving oral health knowledge, while has low effectiveness in oral hygiene and gingival health.
Angelopoulou, Matina V. +3 more
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Indonesia's geographical conditions are very diverse. Oral disease which is the most common global health problem is caries. An indicator of caries experience which includes decay, missing, filled criteria is DMF, the easiest and most frequently used method for epidemiological surveys of dental caries. To identify the subset of the population with high
Ita Yulita, Tedi Purnama, Nurul Hidayah
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A Systematic Review of Dental Disease in Patients Undergoing Cancer Therapy [PDF]
Introduction: The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the literature and update our current understanding of the impact of present cancer therapies on the dental apparatus (teeth and periodontium) since the 1989 NIH Development Consensus ...
Brian D. Hodgson +8 more
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Significant (SiC) index of the 12-year-old child's permanent teeth caries experience [PDF]
Received : 8 August, 2013 Revised : 21 October, 2013 Accepted : 3 December, 2013 ABSTRACT Objectives : The purpose of the study is to investigate the significant(SiC) index of the 12 year old children‘s permanent teeth caries experience. A total of 428 children aged 12 years old were recruited from metropolitan city(215 children) and rural area(213 ...
Seung-Hui Choi +2 more
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Objectives: Calculate the prevalence and severity of dental caries and periodontal health among school students aged 12-18 years old and their attitudes toward dental health and oral hygiene at Al-Mafraq governate- Jordan.
Leena Smadi +4 more
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Sugar intake and dental decay : results from a national survey of children in Scotland [PDF]
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Blackburn, Alison +6 more
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Testing the efficacy of a brief-caries risk assessment form to evaluate the dental health status among preschool children, Bangkok, Thailand [PDF]
Purpose – The study aims to test the efficacy of brief-caries risk assessment form with standard caries risk assessment form and to evaluate the application of caries risk assessment following American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) between brief ...
Saruta Saengtipbovorn
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Socio-demographic disparity in Oral Health among the Poor: A Cross Sectional Study of Early Adolescents in Kilwa District, Tanzania. [PDF]
There is a lack of studies considering social disparity in oral health emanating from adolescents in low-income countries. This study aimed to assess socio-demographic disparities in clinical- and self reported oral health status and a number of oral ...
Mashoto, Kijakazi O +3 more
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Caries Experience in Czech Preschool Children
Introduction, Aim: Childhood caries is the most common chronic childhood disease. The Czech Republic still belongs to countries with relatively high caries prevalence. The aim of the cross-sectional survey was to evaluate caries prevalence in the primary
E. Lenčová, Z. Broukal
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