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Students interested in applying for this program must have previously graduated from an accredited dental hygiene program, submit their board exam results, have earned at least a GPA of 2.75, have a current dental hygiene state license, and provide official transcripts of all previous academic work....
biofilm accumulation on the teeth should be evaluated. It has been reported that oral hygiene behaviors, such as frequency of brushing and use of dental floss, affected the mortality of HD patients19. One previous study investigated the impact of oral health parameters, ...
Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the status of dental caries, oral hygiene, and treatment needs in orphan children and adolescents in a residential care facility in Istanbul, Türkiye, and assess the effect on OHRQoL. The null hypothesis of the study was that dental caries, oral hygiene...
Under an Elsevier user license open archiveAim: To assess the dental health status and treatment needs of Bangladeshi medical care users aged 40 years and over and to explore the relationship of oral disease status, tobacco usage and paan (betel quid) chewing. Design: Multi-centre cross-section...
In many countries, the prevalence of dental caries is higher in women, with factors such as heredity, fluoride, oral hygiene, and saliva playing a role. However, in Korea, the prevalence is higher in men. Dental trauma occurs about twice as often in males as in females and is associated ...
Dental hygiene training varies but involves up to a 2-year program, often in association with institutions training dentists. Just over half of the countries listed on the FDI database have dental hygiene training, with the United States, Japan, and Canada all employing large numbers. In a ...
If the decrease in pH in the oral cavity can be prevented with good oral hygiene, diet, and regular plaque control, we believe that the settlement and growth of H.pylori in the oral cavity can be prevented. Good oral hygiene not only prevents gingivitis it may also help secondarily reduce...
Thorough dental care, adherence to oral hygiene, and implant maintenance are critical for preventing plaque-related issues around dental implants, irrespective of the implant material used. Regarding MBL, there were significant and non-significant differences in the risk of peri-implantitis between ...
Before Day 0, all subjects had received a rigorous oral hygiene regimen for 3 weeks, which resulted in greatly reduced MGI and BOP (median MGI and BOP were 1.02 and 1.00, respectively; “Baseline”) that corresponded to a healthy gum state. Then, the subjects further underwent an oral ...