Published in Community dental health
This paper explores the issues of caste and casteism in the U.S. as described by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson in her 2020 book “Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents”. Wilkerson argues that a caste system not only exists in the U.S. but operates as a hidden force affecting social inequality. The paper draws on Wilkerson’s work ...
Published in Community dental health
This study systematically reviews the evidence on the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and oral clinical conditions in adults and elderly people. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences - Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS), Brazilian Dentistry Bibliog...
Published in Community dental health
Electronic cigarettes remain a divisive topic amongst public health experts and researchers. The division hinges on the the role of e-cigarettes in public health, i.e., whether e-cigarettes represent a potential to compromise decades of public health efforts by driving smoking rates up, or an effective tool to drive smoking rates down. Dental setti...
Published in Community dental health
To assess the experience, prevalence, need for treatment and economic impact of caries among students 6-12 years old in four cities in Mexico. Cross-sectional clinical study. Elementary public schools. 500 schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years. Oral clinical examinations using WHO criteria for caries in the primary (dmft) and permanent (DMFT) dentition...
Published in Frontiers for Young Minds
Dental caries can cause cavities in teeth and can lead to severe pain. Decay is caused by bacteria that thrive on sweets and foods rich in carbohydrates, so they can be seen as the villains that lead to the formation of cavities. To protect themselves against decay, the teeth create a type of hard barrier inside themselves to keep decay out. The fo...
Published in Health and quality of life outcomes
This study aimed to evaluate the moderating effect of sense of coherence (SOC) on the relationship between social capital and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among schoolchildren. A cohort study was conducted in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil, involving children aged 1-5 years at baseline who were reassessed after 10 years in adolesce...
Published in Oral diseases
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an oral health talk aided by a video on improving the awareness of mothers about natal teeth in two rural communities in southwest Nigeria. Material and Methods: A cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted among 80 mothers in two rural communities in Nigeria, randomized into study and control grou...
Objective: To analyze whether demographic and socioeconomic factors can influence the OHRQoL in schoolchildren. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study using a representative sample of 1137 children aged 8-10 years, enrolled in public schools in Florianópolis, Brazil, was conducted. Children answered the Brazilian version of the Child Percept...
Objective: To make an association between self-perception and the implementation of sociodemographic variables for the autonomous and / or partially dependent individuals in nursing homes. Material and Methods: Epidemiological, observational and cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 208 institutionalized elderly, both sexes, 60 years old o...
