The New Zealand dental journal最新文献

{"title":"Dental radiography in New Zealand: digital versus film.","authors":"N A Ting,&nbsp;J M Broadbent,&nbsp;W J Duncan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Unlabelled: </strong>Digital x-ray systems offer advantages over conventional film systems, yet many dentists have not adopted digital technology.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To assess New Zealand dental practitioners' use of--and preferences for--dental radiography systems.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Cross-sectional survey.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>General and specialist dental practice.</p><p><strong>Participants and methods: </strong>Postal questionnaire survey of a sample of 770 dentists (520 randomly selected general dental practitioners and all 250 specialists) listed in the 2012 NZ Dental Council Register.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Type of radiography systems used by dentists. Dentists' experiences and opinions of conventional film and digital radiography.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The participation rate was 55.2%. Digital radiography systems were used by 58.0% of participating dentists, most commonly among those aged 31-40 years. Users of digital radiography tended to report greater satisfaction with their radiography systems than users conventional films. Two-thirds of film users were interested in switching to digital radiography in the near future. Reasons given by conventional film users for not using digital radiography included cost, difficulty in integrating with other software systems, concern about potential technical errors, and the size and nature of the intra-oral sensors.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Many dental practitioners have still not adopted digital radiography, yet its users are more satisfied with their radiography systems than are conventional film users. The latter may find changing to a digital system to be satisfying and rewarding.</p>","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 3","pages":"107-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31726985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adult dental care in NZ.","authors":"Frederik Dean","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 2","pages":"68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31506076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New Zealand dentists' views on community water fluoridation.","authors":"S M Grant,&nbsp;S K Dawson,&nbsp;W M Thomson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine whether New Zealand general dental practitioners support community water fluoridation (CWF), and to gauge their opinions on its possible systemic side-effects.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An online survey was conducted in 2010, involving the 1174 general dental practitioners who had email addresses on the Dental Register and were contactable in New Zealand. A total of 465 dentists (39.6%) participated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most practitioners (93.5%) reported supporting community water fluoridation; the other 6.5% either were unsure or did not support it. Higher proportions of more recent graduates supported CWF. Some 85.6% of practitioners thought that drinking fluoridated water was a harmless way to prevent dental caries, but 6.2% felt that fluoridated water may cause other health problems. There were no systematic differences by sociodemographic and practice characteristics, except that a higher proportion of males and more experienced practitioners reported being confident in discussing CWF-related issues.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Most New Zealand dental practitioners support community water fluoridation, although a very small proportion believe that it is harmful and/or does not prevent caries.</p>","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 2","pages":"69-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31506077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Older New Zealanders.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 2","pages":"48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31506071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fingers in mouths: from cause to management.","authors":"Shahrzad Khayami,&nbsp;Florence Bennani,&nbsp;Mauro Farella","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digit sucking is a habit that occurs in childhood and can lead to malocclusion if it persists for a long time. Understanding the cause and available management approaches for habit cessation can lead to more positive outcomes for clinicians, parents and children alike. Increasing clinicians' awareness of the causes and management of digit sucking behaviours can aid in their effective and systematic management, thereby reducing the risk of future malocclusion in some individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 2","pages":"49-50, 52-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31506073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peri-implant disease: current understanding and future direction.","authors":"Colleen M Murray,&nbsp;Ellie T Knight,&nbsp;Assil A Russell,&nbsp;Andrew Tawse-Smith,&nbsp;Jonathan W Leichter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 2","pages":"55-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31506074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oral hygiene behaviours and readiness to change using the TransTheoretical Model (TTM).","authors":"Kirsten J Wade,&nbsp;Dawn E Coates,&nbsp;Robin D C Gauld,&nbsp;Vicki Livingstone,&nbsp;Mary P Cullinan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) in relation to measures of readiness to change oral hygiene behaviours.</p><p><strong>Research design: </strong>Participants (N = 105) were recruited from a dental hygiene patient waiting list. A self-administered questionnaire was designed; it included four measures related to inter-dental cleaning used for TTM staging, confidence and frequency measures of future interdental cleaning and toothbrushing, together with items seeking demographic details. Data collection occurred before a dental hygiene appointment where oral health advice was offered, and then at three and six months afterwards, in order to measure readiness to change post-intervention.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All three questionnaires were returned by 91.4% of participants. The confidence measures for maintaining toothbrushing twice per day and for interdental cleaning were associated with TTM staging at baseline (respective correlation coefficients of 0.200; P = 0.042 and 0.584; P < 0.001). Participants were likely to be in a higher TTM stage at 3 months after attendance at the dental hygiene clinic and then decline to a lower TTM stage by 6 months (baseline to 3 months and 6 months: Wilcoxon signed rank tests of p= 0.024 and p = 0.627). Of the 31 participants (33%) who improved their TTM staging between baseline and 3 months, 11 (35%) fell back to a lower category between 3 months and 6 months, 14 (45%) maintained their improvement, and 6 (19%) improved further.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Understanding a person's readiness to change could improve the way in which oral hygiene interventions and advice are given in the clinical setting. The TTM staging measurement tool used here provides insight into people's readiness to change their oral hygiene behaviours, and its use would aid practitioners in the delivery of oral health messages. The initial improvement in TTM stage and subsequent regression was consistent with the TTM's relapse phenomenon and reinforces the concept that on-going support is crucial to maintaining behaviour change.</p>","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 2","pages":"64-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31506075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review on dental implants by Ng et al.","authors":"Peter Foreman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 1","pages":"28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31638532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exercise intervention for a musculoskeletal disorder in an oral health student: a case report.","authors":"S J Horton,&nbsp;K J Wade","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>to describe and evaluate the effect of an exercise self-management programme for an oral health student who was suffering from a musculoskeletal disorder which had developed in the clinical environment during the course of training.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Single participant case report.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>The University of Otago Faculty of Dentistry and School of Physiotherapy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The participant was a 21-year-old female student, enrolled in the University of Otago Bachelor of Oral Health (BOH) course, who was suffering back and neck pain which had developed during her training. A series of chairside stretches, regular home-based stretches, aerobic conditioning and postural strengthening exercises was prescribed. Pain and function was assessed using standardised questionnaires at the commencement of the exercise programme, and again at 6 weeks and 13 weeks.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The participant demonstrated an improvement in her outcome questionnaires exceeding the MCID scores after 13 weeks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This case report provides a basis for highlighting the importance of measuring and monitoring MSD in a student learning oral health skills; it supports the findings of previous studies showing that an exercise intervention has some benefit for MSD in oral health students.</p>","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 1","pages":"12-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31638781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of malocclusion on quality of life among New Zealand adolescents.","authors":"A Ukra,&nbsp;L A Foster Page,&nbsp;W M Thomson,&nbsp;M Farella,&nbsp;A Tawse Smith,&nbsp;V Beck","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To determine whether malocclusion is associated with oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in New Zealand adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from two cross-sectional epidemiological studies of adolescents in Taranaki and Otago were used. Each participant completed a self-administered questionnaire and underwent a clinical examination. Information collected included sociodemographic characteristics (sex, ethnicity and household deprivation), and clinical measures (caries and malocclusion, the latter measured with the Dental Aesthetic Index, or DAI). OHRQoL was measured using the validated 16-item impact short-form Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11-14). Linear regression was used to model the CPQ11-14 score.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>783 adolescents (52.6% male) took part. One-fifth had a handicapping malocclusion and one-third had a minor malocclusion or none. The overall mean DMFS was 2.3 (SD, 3.8), with slightly more than 50% being caries-free. With the exception of the oral symptoms domain, females presented with higher mean CPQ11-14 and domain scores, while Mãori had lower scores. There was a distinct gradient in mean CPQ11-14 and domain scores across the categories of malocclusion severity, whereby those in the 'handicapping' category of the DAI had the highest CPQ11-14 score. Linear regression modeling of the CPQ11-14 score showed that, after controlling for DMFS and socio-demographic characteristics, malocclusion category and being female were positively associated with higher CPQ11-14 scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A severe malocclusion appears to have a negative impact on the OHRQoL of New Zealand adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":76703,"journal":{"name":"The New Zealand dental journal","volume":"109 1","pages":"18-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31638694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}