Essays about: "Dental caries"

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  1. 11. Investigation on Time Spent on Caries Prevention in Västerbotten Public Dental Service Clinics : A secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal caries study

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH)

    Author : Carolina Garcia Sanchez; [2019]
    Keywords : dental caries; prevention; dentistry; oral health;

    Abstract : Introduction: Despite being preventable, dental caries is the most widespread noncommunicable disease (NCD) globally. Being de most prevalent condition, and the attempts of dentists and dental auxiliaries to give oral health the right attention, transparent, reliable, and up-to-date data about the type and level of oral health care costs are of significant societal relevance to present feedback about health system–level efficiency. READ MORE

  3. 12. Does Size Matter? An osteological analysis of the relation between tooth size and dental caries from S:t Clemens cemetery in Lund.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk osteologi

    Author : Felicia Törnberg; [2019]
    Keywords : Human osteology; Dental Caries; Tooth Size; Focal Infection Theory; Evolutionary Theory; S:t Clemens; Medieval Lund. ; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to investigate the relation between tooth size and dental caries in a medieval material from S:t Clemens cemetery in Lund. Dental caries is one of the most common infectious disease in humankind, both in prehistoric and modern populations. Evidence of caries gives the opportunity to study health and diet in populations. READ MORE

  4. 13. Caries experience and risk assessment in 6-year-olds and 14-year-olds living in Malmö, Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Odontologiska fakulteten (OD)

    Author : Turki Almujaweb; [2018]
    Keywords : dental caries; risk assessment; Caries; caries experience; Sweden;

    Abstract : Aim: to study if children with caries in primary teeth at age 6 had more caries in permanent teeth at age 14 compared to children who were caries-free at age 6. Besides that, if children who were judged as having high caries risk at age 14 had higher DMFT than children with low caries risk in the same age, and if children with high caries risk at age 14 had higher dmft at age 6 than children with low/moderate risk at age 14. READ MORE

  5. 14. Cost analysis of dental caries prevention in Västerbotten county, Sweden : An investigation of preventive expenditure in a 5-year prospective cohort study in adolescents

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH)

    Author : Talia Salzmann; [2018]
    Keywords : dental caries; prevention; cost analysis; health economics; dentistry;

    Abstract : Introduction: Treatment of dental diseases makes up 4.6% of global health expenditure and dental caries is the most prevalent condition worldwide. In higher-income countries, population-wide prevention has brought prevalence down and it is now concentrated in 20% of the population. READ MORE

  6. 15. Oral Health and Tools for Oral Hygiene in Adolescents in Detema Secondary School

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för odontologi

    Author : Yvonne Samuelsson; Erik Samuelsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Zimbabwe; Oral health; Oral hygiene; Caries disease; Periodontal disease; Zimbabwe; oral hälsa; oral hygien; karies; parodontal sjukdom;

    Abstract : Abstract The aim of this epidemiologic pilot field study was to determine if the oral health problem in Detema was periodontal or caries disease. If periodontal disease, was it induced by a certain virulent microflora or by inadequate oral hygiene? A second specific aim was to educate local oral health instructors, to raise the awareness of the importance of oral health, and in that way improve the general health. READ MORE