Knowledge of pediatricians and the importance of interdisciplinarity in attention to oral health in early childhooddoi:10.4025/actascihealthsci.v39i1.32251Danielle Tupinambá EmmiAline Fernandes Melo Ribeiro LimaAna Júlia Vieira de LemosConceio de Maria Sales da SilvaUniversidade Estadual de MaringáActa Scientiarum : Health...
Our objective was to explore the importance of underweight on the course of childhood bacterial meningitis (BM) at different study sites, because prior studies showed discrepant results. Using directly comparable, prospective data from three continents, weight-for-age z-scores (WAZ) were determined ...
You should make sure you get your kids in forregular dentist appointments. So they can check their teeth routinely throughout their childhood years. If any oral issues are caught early, they are much easier to treat than fixing them after they have worsened over time. According to the dentist...
early childhood caries metagenomics oral microbiome functional profile preschool children INTRODUCTION Dental caries, also known as tooth decay, is one of the most common oral infections in children (1). It is a destructive process that causes decalcification of tooth enamel and subsequently leads to ...
In recent years, a population of unconventional T cells called ‘mucosal-associated invariant T cells’ (MAIT cells) has captured the attention of immunologists and clinicians due to their abundance in humans, their involvement in a broad range of infect
Understanding the health benefits of Nitric Oxide, and the biological processes by which it can be created, or destroyed is a key part of understanding the links between oral and systemic health. Nitric oxide (NO) has been at the forefront of scientific research since 1998 when 3 US ...
Language acquisition starts early on in an infant's development. The infants learn to recognize phonemes, sounds of the language. They can recognize voices if they have normal hearing. They start to babble typically when they are between 6 to 12 months old in their first year of life....
healthy development. In addition to this, encouraging physical activity through play could influence the children to maintain a healthy lifestyle later in life, and has an array of physical and mental health benefits which prevent disease associated with lack of activity (Chaloux and Media, 2013.)...
The role of BRCA1/2 and other regulators of DNA repair in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases is complex and not yet fully understood, but the evidence suggests that the genes are important to maintain cardiac and vascular health by promoting sufficient DNA repair, regulation of oxidative...
We speculate that the presentation of maternal bacterial components to the fetus during pregnancy is important for the maturation of the immune system and the induction of oral tolerance to allergens. Exposure to live bacteria is not a pre- requisite for this phenomenon and this mechanism should ...