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From Control to Elimination: Making the End of Dental Caries Thinkable

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Dental caries remains one of the most prevalent noncommunicable diseases worldwide despite decades of clinical and behavioural interventions. Persistently high prevalence suggests that current approaches are better organised for ongoing disease management than for preventing new disease occurrence.
Habib Benzian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesCommunity 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanical control in dental and jaw morphogenesis and remodeling. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Oral Sci
Yang X, Zhang X, Gao Q, Wang S, Wu X.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Best of Times at the Worst of Times: How Adults Respond to a Brief Intervention (RETURN) to Increase Planned Dental Visiting

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although acute health crises can disrupt routines and open a window for behaviour change, these teachable moments are rarely harnessed by intervention designs. The RETURN intervention (comprising a dental nurse‐led conversation, short peer videos and booklets supporting knowledge, skills and action‐planning) aimed to change planned dental ...
R. V. Harris   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Disability in Oral Health Policy and Practice in the UK

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives In the United Kingdom (UK), disabled people face barriers accessing dental care, leading to poor oral health. To understand these barriers, the present study examined how disability is defined and conceptualised in UK oral health policy documents, and explored the implications of these framings for the provision of dental care for ...
K. Rijhwani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surgical vs non-surgical techniques for accelerating orthodontic tooth movement in fixed appliances and aligners: a systematic review

open access: yes
Background: Several procedures have been proposed as adjuvant treatments to accelerate orthodontic tooth movement (OTM). Here, we aimed to verify and compare the effectiveness of surgical and non-surgical techniques in accelerating tooth movement, ascertain how different type of orthodontic appliances influences the rate of tooth movement.
openaire   +1 more source

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