Essays about: "caries prevention"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words caries prevention.

  1. 1. 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. 2. 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

  4. 3. Patients knowledge about caries prevention and oral hygiene - a comparative study

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för odontologi

    Author : Sofie Karlsson; Fredrika Lundberg Palm; [2018]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Background: The caries aetiology is individual and multifactorial, and even though common causes are known to professionals, patients still suffer from the disease. The aim of this study was to investigate if the patient care education of today is optimal. READ MORE

  5. 4. Oral health knowledge among nursing students

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HHJ. Oral hälsa

    Author : Helen Odisho; Hina Khan; [2017]
    Keywords : Caregivers; Education; Oral diseases; Oral hygiene.; Munhygien; Omhändertagande; Orala sjukdomar; Utbildning.;

    Abstract : Background: Oral health is a part of general health and it is therefore important that nurses are able to detect abnormalities in the mouth to refer to dental care. Aim: The aim of this study was to examine oral health knowledge regarding oral diseases and oral hygiene among nursing students at two universities - InHolland University and University of Victoria [UVic]. READ MORE

  6. 5. Lex Norrköping : The Norrköping Water Fluoridation Trials 1952-1962 and the Passing of the 1962 Water Fluoridation Act

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Jonatan Samuelsson; [2016]
    Keywords : science; dentistry; dentists; public health; caries; caries prevention; science and policy; history; history of science; uncertainty; scientization; Roger Pielke Jr.; Daniel Sarewitz; fluorides; fluoridation; Norrköping; The Honest Broker; vetenskap; tandläkare; tandvård; folkhälsa; tandvård; karies; kariesprevention; vetenskap och politik; historia; vetenskapshistoria; osäkerhet; scientization; Roger Pielke Jr.; Daniel Sarewitz; fluor; fluoridering; The Honest Broker; Norrköping;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how scientists and science were put to use in the passing of the 1962 Water Fluoridation Act. The law was created for a specific purpose: that of facilitating the continuation of the water fluoridation trials that had been under way in Norrköping until January 1962, when they were forced to cease, having been deemed illegal by the Supreme Administrative Court. READ MORE