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Attitudes of Virginia Dental Hygienists Toward Dental Therapists
… determine the opinions and attitudes of Virginia dental hygienists toward dental therapists (DTs) and to determine if current education level and years of practice affected opinions regarding education requirements for DTs. Methods: After IRB approval, a 22-item questionnaire was distributed …
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Burden of Dental Anomalies at a University Pediatric Dental Clinic
Purpose: Investigate the burden of dental treatment for children and adolescents with dental anomalies. Methods: Electronic health records (axiUm) of patients seen at the University of Washington Center for Pediatric Dentistry (2010-2019) were used for this cohort study. Children and adolescents …
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A Survey of Dental Hygiene Program Directors: Curriculum Development and Implementation for the Dental Hygiene-Based Dental Therapist
… related to curriculum development for a dental hygiene-based dental therapist and the question of how external variables affect allied health workforce development and implementation.</p> <p>Methods: A survey instrument was utilized to help identify the relationship between a dental …
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Exploring the Utility of Dental Pathological Conditions in Dental Radiographic Comparisons
Dental forensic identifications can be achieved through comparative dental analysis(CDA) by comparing a decedent's postmortem (PM) dental records to a suspected match's antemortem (AM) dental records. Dental records are particularly useful for CDA, because the number of concordant dental …
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Adrenomedullin in dental tissues
… vitro analysis using the developmentally derived dental cell lines, MDPC-23 and OD-21, demonstrated ADM stimulated a biphasic response in dental cell numbers with peak stimulation at 10-11M and that it stimulated mineral deposition at levels comparable to that of the known mineralising agent …
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Evaluation of Current Knowledge of Genetics Among Dental Students, Residents and Dental Hygiene Students
… settings. To provide personalized patient care, dental health professionals must have a greater understanding of genetics. The Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) credentials all dental schools in the United States and currently does not mandate genetics training for official approval of …
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Licensure and the dental market
The dental profession in the United States has a history of organized activity designed to secure a market protected from outsiders. The development of this phenomenon follows a course that has paralleled that of the other licensed professions. The ultimate capture of the official blessings of the …
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The experience of dental avoidance
… of nine individuals in relation to their dental avoidance. The participants were three women and six men who had periods of 2 to 20 years duration when they avoided dentists. Of the nine participants or co-researchers, two are still in avoidant patterns. These two people differed from the …
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Correlation of Dental Anxiety, Dental Phobia, and Psychological Constructs in a Sample of Patients Receiving Dental Care at Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry
Introduction: Dental anxiety, fear, and phobia are common factors that prevent individuals from seeking dental care by delaying dental care or terminating the visit entirely, which may cause a decline in oral health-related quality of life. Dental anxiety often has a correlation with other …
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Attitudes of Virginia Dental Hygienists Towards Issues Relevant to the Independent Practice of Dental Hygiene
… not been conducted to assess the attitudes of dental hygienists toward independent practice of dental hygiene. The purpose of this study was to investigate these attitudes. The method of investigation was a survey questionnaire designed by the principle investigator. The research results …
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Working postures in dental practitioners and dental students: relationships between posture, seating, and muscle activity
… compared with a conventional seat during common dental procedures with the dental students and practising dentists. The study was conducted with practising dentists across the West Midlands and the dental students in the School of Dentistry – University of Birmingham. The study is mainly divided …
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A Biomechanical Study of Gold and Nickel-Based Dental Bridge Systems Utilizing Distal Abutment Dental Implants.
It is estimated there are over thirty million edentulous people in the United States alone. In this population the use of conventional treatment modalities, i.e., full or partial removable dentures, has been demonstrated to result in: (1) loss of alveolar bone height with subsequent inability to …
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Development of a model educational presentation on Zendium directed towards graduating dental and dental hygiene students
Future dental professionals receive very little information on new dental products. The goal of this project was to introduce Zendium, a new dentifrice manufactured by CooperCare, Oral-B, to graduating dental studentS, post doctoral periodontic students and senior dental hygiene students. This …
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Mobile Dental Units at the deckplate
The concept of bringing dental care to the active duty member can be traced back as far as World War I. More than 80 years later, this still holds true. Today, Mobile Dental Units (MDU) seek out the patient, saving hundreds and thousands of man-hours which would otherwise be consumed by patients …
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Nutritional attitudes of senior dental students
… and dentistry were studied in a group of senior dental students at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia. The attitude statements were divided into three categories, nutrition and counseling, the nutrition counseling in their future dental practice, and nutrition education …
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