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Children's toothache is becoming everybody's business: where do parents go when their children have oral pain in London, England? A cross-sectional analysis.
(2018-02-28)
OBJECTIVES: To assess the number of parents who visited community pharmacies in London seeking pain medications for their children's pain and specifically for oral pain, to identify which health services parents contacted ...
A prospective cohort study assessing the appearance of retrieved aesthetic orthodontic archwires.
(2018-02)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the appearance of three esthetic nickel titanium (NiTi) wires after 6 weeks of intra-oral cycling and to determine the association between objective and subjective measures of esthetics. SETTING ...
Predictors of dentists' behaviours in delivering prevention in primary dental care in England: using the theory of planned behaviour.
(2016-02-08)
BACKGROUND: To explore the factors predicting preventive behaviours among NHS dentists in Camden, Islington and Haringey in London, using constructs from the Theory of Planned Behaviour. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey ...
Differences by age and sex in general dental practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in delivering prevention.
(2015-09-25)
PURPOSE: To assess sex and age differences in NHS dentists' knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in providing preventive care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with dentists working ...
Relationship Between Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale, Child's Dental Status and Parental Psychological Profiles.
(2022-12)
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to assess the influence of a child's dental status and parental psychological profiles on parental perception of their child's oral health. MATERIALS: This study involved 164 parents ...
Impact of oral clefts on the oral health-related quality of life of preschool children and their parents.
(2018-09)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of preschool children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) and their relatives. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 55 2-5-year-old children ...
Impact of Protracted War Crisis on Dental Students: A Comparative Multicountry Cross-sectional Study
(Medknow Publications, 2023-12-22)
BACKGROUND: The impact of conflict and war crisis on dental students is poorly understood. Given the prolonged conflicts and political instability in the Arabic-speaking countries, it is crucial to investigate the effect ...
Socioeconomic Gradients in Different Types of Tobacco Use in India: Evidence from Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2009-10
(Hindawi, 2015-07-26)
Socioeconomic differences in tobacco use have been reported, but there is a lack of evidence on how they vary according to types of tobacco use. This study explored socioeconomic differences associated with cigarette, bidi, ...
Socioeconomic inequalities in dental caries and their determinants in adolescents in New Delhi, India
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-12-12)
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether socioeconomic inequalities are correlated to dental caries experience and decayed teeth of Indian adolescents, and assess whether behavioural and psychosocial factors mediate this association. ...
A double-blind, crossover study of Biotène Oralbalance and BioXtra systems as salivary substitutes in patients with post-radiotherapy xerostomia.
(2005-09)
This study assessed the efficacy of the Bioxtra (BX) and Biotène Oralbalance (OB) systems in the treatment of post-radiotherapy xerostomia. In a double-blind, crossover study, 20 patients with post-radiotherapy xerostomia ...