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Journal of Dentistry For Children... Jan 2021To evaluate children's perceptions of the dentist and dental office using drawings and its association with age, sex, and previous dental experience.
Participants...To evaluate children's perceptions of the dentist and dental office using drawings and its association with age, sex, and previous dental experience.
Participants included 144 four- to six-year-old children who were instructed to make a drawing of their perception of the dentist and dental office. Data collected included age, sex, and previous dental care experience. The data were analyzed descriptively and through multivariate logistic regression.
Boys were 2.3 times more likely to have a negative perception of the dentist than girls ( =0.024). Children who had no previous dental experience were four times more likely to have a negative perception of dentists ( =0.002). Six-year-old children were three times more likely to have a negative perception of the dentist compared to four-year-old children ( =0.031).
Drawings can be a useful tool to evaluate children's perceptions of the dentist and dental office.Topics: Child; Child Behavior; Child, Preschool; Dental Offices; Dentists; Female; Humans; Male; Perception
PubMed: 33875050
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Dental Clinics of North America Oct 2016Dental education is at the intersection of affordable health care, opioid-abuse crisis, and collaborative practice benefits. Students must engage in interprofessional... (Review)
Review
Dental education is at the intersection of affordable health care, opioid-abuse crisis, and collaborative practice benefits. Students must engage in interprofessional education (IPE) for pain management. Graduates must recognize appropriate management of acute dental pain and understand the dentist's role in interprofessional treatment of chronic disease, including management of temporomandibular disorders and orofacial neuropathic pain, chronic pain in general, and the consideration of opioids. This article reviews accreditation standards, compares these standards with recommendations from the International Association for the Study of Pain and regulatory boards, and presents examples of enhanced pain education.
Topics: Acute Pain; Analgesics, Opioid; Chronic Pain; Dentists; Education, Dental; Humans; Interdisciplinary Studies; Neuralgia; Pain Management
PubMed: 27671956
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British Dental Journal Jul 2019
Topics: Dentist-Patient Relations; Dentists; Humans
PubMed: 31350470
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Journal of the American Dental... Jan 2017
Topics: Dentists; Humans
PubMed: 28062058
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Quintessence International (Berlin,... 2018Advances in transplant medicine and availability of effective immunosuppressive regimens have dramatically improved survival for patients afflicted with end-stage organ... (Review)
Review
Advances in transplant medicine and availability of effective immunosuppressive regimens have dramatically improved survival for patients afflicted with end-stage organ failure. However, chronic immunosuppression predisposes transplant patients to infection caused by a wide spectrum of endogenous or exogenous pathogens as well as necrotizing periodontal conditions. This article reviews clinical features, diagnosis, and management of necrotizing stomatitis in the context of therapeutic immunosuppression and discusses the integral function of dentists in eliminating oral foci of infection in preparation for transplantation as well as life-long maintenance of oral health post-transplant. We also present a renal transplant patient who developed massive soft and hard tissue necrosis in the anterior mandible. Disproportionate periodontal destruction in relation to local factors raised suspicion of iatrogenic overimmunosuppression, and he was hospitalized for management of profound neutropenia.
Topics: Dental Care for Chronically Ill; Dentists; Humans; Immunocompromised Host; Necrosis; Professional Role; Stomatitis
PubMed: 29629439
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British Dental Journal Apr 2021Registering as a dentist and working in the UK is a goal that many overseas dentists aspire to. Overseas-qualified dentists need to either pass a registration exam to be...
Registering as a dentist and working in the UK is a goal that many overseas dentists aspire to. Overseas-qualified dentists need to either pass a registration exam to be able to practise dentistry in the UK or, under certain circumstances, they can register through assessment. Additionally, temporary registration gives overseas-qualified dentists the opportunity to practise dentistry under supervision for up to five years. However, these routes are difficult and it could take a few years before a dentist is registered. These dentists have the academic route as well, but similar to the registration route, it is not easy and very competitive and expensive. Brexit and COVID-19 had their impact on the journey of these dentists and altered their plans to pursue their career in the UK. To sum up, the current system could probably be modified to be more in line with that of neighbouring countries. To my colleagues who have graduated from the UK or EU and are registered with the General Dental Council, please be aware that it is not an easy journey, requires a lot of money and time, and is an incredibly stressful time.
Topics: COVID-19; Dentists; European Union; Humans; SARS-CoV-2; United Kingdom
PubMed: 33893423
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Journal of Dental Education May 2016Understanding the information-seeking behavior of dentists may inform ways to increase the dentist uptake of evidence-based research for clinical decision making and the... (Review)
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Understanding the information-seeking behavior of dentists may inform ways to increase the dentist uptake of evidence-based research for clinical decision making and the practice of evidence-based dentistry, but no systematic review of dentist information-seeking behavior has been conducted. This review aimed to synthesize the best available evidence on where and how dentists seek information. A literature search of Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and reference lists of English language studies from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries of dentists' information-seeking behavior published between 2002 and 2014 was conducted. Selected articles were assessed using mixed methods analysis, and the data extracted were thematically synthesized. Nine studies met the inclusion criteria, and four main themes were identified: dentists' difficulty translating evidence-based resources into clinical practice; dentists' preference for face-to-face meetings, collegial discussion, and print materials over evidence-based resources; dentists' perceptions of the validity of evidence-based resources and the role of specialist and experienced dentists as information sources for general and less experienced dentists; and differences between early and late adopters of research evidence. Dentists in these studies tended to adopt new materials/techniques after discussion with a colleague, a dental specialist, or a respected dental expert. These dentists also reported lacking time, experience, skills, and confidence to find and use evidence-based resources. Many of the dentists studied were cautious about making decisions based on documentary sources like literature reviews and preferred to seek advice from an experienced or specialist colleague or to participate in face-to-face meetings.
Topics: Dentists; Developed Countries; Information Seeking Behavior
PubMed: 27139208
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The Journal of Clinical Pediatric... Apr 2021To develop, validate, and apply an instrument for assessing the children's perception regarding pediatric dentist's appearance, based upon the influence of age, gender,...
OBJECTIVE
To develop, validate, and apply an instrument for assessing the children's perception regarding pediatric dentist's appearance, based upon the influence of age, gender, previous dental experience, and anxiety.
STUDY DESIGN
Images and a nine-item questionnaire were developed. The acceptability, convergent-construct validity, and reliability based on reproducibility and internal consistency were evaluated. The validated instrument was applied in a cross-sectional study, with children (n=120) aged 7-12 years asked to evaluate images of pediatric dentists wearing different dental attire (A:all-white (control); B:printed coat and cap, colorful face mask; C:printed coat, cap and face mask; and D:white coat and cap, printed face mask). Children's age, gender, and previous dental experiences were collected with the guardians. The Children's Fear Survey Schedule-Dental Subscale assessed children's anxiety. Descriptive and inferential statistics were carried out (p<0.05).
RESULTS
The instrument showed excellent acceptability, construct validity with moderate and strong correlations (>0.40), satisfactory reproducibility (ICC >0.70), and internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient >0.70). Considering only the attire, the children's perceptions were more positive with the use of attire C and D (p<0.05). Intergroup analysis of all the variables did not identify a statistically significant difference (p>0.05). In the intragroup analysis, compared to attire A: younger children have higher perception scores to attire D; girls, children with previous experience and without anxiety favored attire C and D; and children without previous experience showed no difference in comparison to A but did between B and C (p<0.05).
CONCLUSION
The C and D attires promoted a more positive perception of the appearance of a pediatric dentist when compared to A; however, age, gender, previous dental experience, and anxiety did not influence the perception scores.
Topics: Child; Clothing; Cross-Sectional Studies; Dental Anxiety; Dentists; Female; Humans; Perception; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 33951165
DOI: 10.17796/1053-4625-45.2.4 -
Primary Dental Journal Aug 2017The dentist's chair presents an opportunity to pick up ear nose and throat lesions, by virtue of the close proximity of the anatomical areas. Urgent two-week wait... (Review)
Review
The dentist's chair presents an opportunity to pick up ear nose and throat lesions, by virtue of the close proximity of the anatomical areas. Urgent two-week wait referral can expedite assessment and management of head and neck malignancies, thereby improving the prognosis. In this paper, we attempt to highlight the ear, nose and throat (ENT) conditions that need a two week referral, as well as the benign head and neck lesions which can potentially be picked up in a dentist's chair.
Topics: Dentists; Diagnosis, Differential; Ear Diseases; Humans; Nose Diseases; Pharyngeal Diseases
PubMed: 30188315
DOI: 10.1308/205016817821931060 -
International Journal of Environmental... Apr 2021The use of dental hand pieces endanger dentists to vibration exposure as they are subjected to very high amplitude and vibration frequency. This paper has envisaged a...
The use of dental hand pieces endanger dentists to vibration exposure as they are subjected to very high amplitude and vibration frequency. This paper has envisaged a comparative analysis of vibration amplitudes and transmissibility during idling and drilling with micro motor (MM) and air-turbine (AT) hand pieces. The study aims to identify the mean difference in vibration amplitudes during idling, explore different grasp forces while drilling with irrigant injection by the dentist, and various vibration transmission of these hand pieces. The study utilized 22 separate frequency resonances on two new and eight used MMs and two new and eight used ATs of different brands by observing the investigator at 16 different dentist clinics. The study adopted a descriptive research design with non-probability sampling techniques for selecting dentists and hand pieces. Statistical methods like Levene Test of Homogeneity, Welch ANOVA, independent t-test, and Games-Howell test were utilized with SPSS version 22 and MS-Excel. The results reveal that vibration amplitudes and vibration transmissibility when measured at position 2 are higher than in another position 1. Vibrations during idling for used MMs are more than AT hand pieces, and the used MM (MUD) and used AT (AUA) hand pieces differ due to their obsolescence and over-usage. Vibration amplitudes increase every time with the tightening of grasping of the hand piece. Vibration amplitudes for each grasping style of MM hand piece differ from all other grasping styles of AT hand pieces. Routine exposure to consistent vibrations has ill physical, mental, and psychological effects on dentists. The used hand pieces more hazardous as compared to newer ones. The study suggests that these hand pieces must be replaced periodically, sufficient to break between two operations, especially after every hand piece usage. Hence, the present research work can be further extended by creating some control groups among dentists and then studying the vibration amplitude exposure of various dental hand pieces and subsequent transmissibility to their body parts.
Topics: Dentists; Hand Strength; Humans; Physical Therapy Modalities; Rotation; Vibration
PubMed: 33924408
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18084084