{"title":"Panoramic radiographic study of mental foramen locations in Saudi Arabians.","authors":"T L al-Khateeb, O Odukoya, M A el-Hadidy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A panoramic radiographic study was carried out on 404 dentate Saudi Arabians, to locate positions of the mental foramen. Results show that 83.7% of the mental foramen locations occurred in the interdental space between the mandibular premolars and apical to the mandibular second premolar. 9.35% occurred posterior to the mandibular second premolar, and 6.95% occurred apical/anterior to the mandibular first premolar. In female Saudis, the most common location of the mental foramen was apical to the mandibular second premolar (45.9%), while the most common location in male Saudis was the interdental space between the mandibular premolars (45.5%). Asymmetry of the mental foramen location, which was observed in 15.6% of the cases, was observed more often in males (17.9%) than in females (12.3%).</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"8 ","pages":"16-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20511925","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 practices and oral health knowledge in a population of Mozambican adults.","authors":"G Vonhagen, J Hoover, R Macdermott, A Tanda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A study was carried out to assess the oral hygiene practices and dental knowledge by means of a questionnaire, in a group of 239 adults in Mozambique. Despite the relatively low educational status of the sample, the level of dental knowledge appeared satisfactory. However, there still exists a need for increasing the awareness of good oral hygiene in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"8 ","pages":"26-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20511927","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":"The Robin sequence associated with partial maxillary duplication and multiple facial clefts: a case report.","authors":"J O Mafeni","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case is presented of a male child of recent Yugoslav immigrants born with bilateral facial clefts, bilateral cleft lip and palate and severe micrognathia. Dental evaluation at 2 years revealed a very prominent premaxilla with hypoplastic maxillary deciduous central incisors. The mandible was markedly retrognathic with the patient exhibiting drooling. Panoramic radiographs revealed the presence of all deciduous teeth in addition to a duplication of the right maxillary molar teeth.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"7 ","pages":"31-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20510752","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":"Occlusal survey in a group of Tanzanian adults.","authors":"E A Mugonzibwa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to describe the occlusion pattern among Tanzanian adults. A total of 906 subjects aged 19-84 years from Ilala District, in Dar es Salaam were clinically examined. The variables studied included molar occlusion, overjet, overbite, open bite, crossbite, crowding, spacing and diastema mediale. Most of the subjects, 94%, had Angle's Class I molar occlusion. Transversal occlusal anomalies were rare. Spacing was more prevalent than crowding. Diastema mediale occurred in 32% of the subjects. Anterior open bite and spacing were the most prevalent conditions in the study group. Although crowding was prevalent, the results indicate an optimal sagittal occlusion with spacious maxilla and mandible. The frequencies found in this study were of a different pattern when compared with those reported previously in different populations. This suggests the need for a more comprehensive inter-ethnic groups study to confirm the differences and examine their implications to clinical and anthropological use.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"7 ","pages":"6-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20510747","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":"HIV infection in children: a challenge to dental practice.","authors":"E O Sote","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human immunodeficiency virus infection in children is on the increase globally. Because of diagnostic difficulties of HIV infection in children, among other reasons, all children are suspects. As a result of new developments in the treatment of this condition, more people with HIV infection/AIDS will survive and require dental treatment on a long-term basis. Dental practitioners who treat children and adolescents are faced with increasing challenge of providing optimum oral health care for all youths regardless of their being infected with HIV or not. The paper presents the diversified roles dentists in African countries have to play owing to prevailing peculiar circumstances in their communities. They should not only be oral diagnosticians and oral health care providers, but also health educators and promoters, researchers, counsellors, and social workers. All oral health personnel particularly the dentist, must be well-learned to meet these demands. By discharging these duties effectively, the spread of HIV infection will be curbed, and both the oral health and the entire well-being of the child population will be enhanced.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"7 ","pages":"11-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20510749","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":"Lower lip position and incisor overjet in a 12-year-old Nigerian population.","authors":"O D Otuyemi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Relationship between variation of overjet and different postural positions of the lower lip in 1,016, 12-year old Nigerians was investigated using a modified Jackson classification (1962). The range and mean overjet values tended to decrease as the extent of incisal coverage increased with statistically significant differences in lip positions. Overjet greater than 6 mm was consistently associated with 'trapped' lower lip. The results of this study also indicate that lower lip may provide inadequate lip coverage to the upper incisors when the overjet is greater than 7 mm.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"7 ","pages":"27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20510751","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}
M I Matee, F H Mikx, S Y Maselle, W H Van Palenstein Helderman
{"title":"The influence of dietary sugars and starch on the establishment of Streptococcus mutans and Actinomyces viscosus in dental plaque of specific pathogen-free rats.","authors":"M I Matee, F H Mikx, S Y Maselle, W H Van Palenstein Helderman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The establishment of S. mutans together with A. viscosus was investigated in dental plaque of specific pathogen-free (SPF) rats fed different carbohydrate diets. Two Tanzanian S.mutans strains MM3 and MM24 and one Tanzanian A. viscosus strain MM13 were used for this purpose. The basic diet consisting of 32% skim-milk, 7% yeast extract and 1% soy bean oil was supplemented with either 10% lactose and 50% corn flour, or 10% glucose and 50% corn flour, or 60% amylum or 60% wheat flour. S. mutans and A. viscosus were enumerated twenty days after inoculation. S. mutans counts were high irrespective of the dietary regime. A. viscosus counts in the glucose, lactose and amylum groups were of the same magnitude and significantly higher than those of the wheat flour group. The hypothesis that the establishment of S. mutans in sucrose free diets could be facilitated by the extracellular polysaccharides produced by A. viscosus was not supported by the present data. The finding that S. mutans can establish in high number in dental plaque of SPF rats in the absence of sucrose corroborates previous reports indicating high S. mutans counts in African populations with a low sucrose intake.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"7 ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20510748","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}
S Kuusela, E Honkala, H Hausen, D Rwakatema, I Gyua, M Lampiranta
{"title":"Opinions of dental students in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and in Kuopio (Finland) concerning studies and expectations for future career.","authors":"S Kuusela, E Honkala, H Hausen, D Rwakatema, I Gyua, M Lampiranta","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of this study was to compare the social background, career choice and future plans of dental students in a developing country, Tanzania, and in an industrialized country, Finland. In Dar es Salaam 100 per cent (n = 25) and in Kuopio 95 per cent (n = 120) of all dental students participated in this study during the academic year 1990-91 by returning an anonymous questionnaire. The similarities that Tanzanian and Finnish dental students shared were related to their feelings and opinions about dental studies and stress. In both places, dental studies seemed to be perceived quite stressful. However, most of the students from both countries planned to pursue further studies after graduation. As future career options, teaching and research were preferred among the Tanzanian students (38 per cent), while the majority of Finnish students (56 per cent) planned to work in community service. The observed difference in the preferred career options was most probably due to differing practical opportunities for a graduating dentist in the two countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"7 ","pages":"20-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20510750","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":"The role and responsibilities of oral health personnel in the control and prevention of HIV infection/AIDS in Africa.","authors":"F E Okoisor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"6 ","pages":"1p."},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12517626","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":"Variations in occlusal and space characteristics in a series of 6-18-year olds, in Ilala District, Tanzania.","authors":"E A Mugonzibwa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study was carried out in Ilala District, Tanzania as part of a major oral health survey. The aim of the study was to investigate the variation in different occlusal and space characteristics among children and adolescents in different age group. A total of 698 children and adolescents aged 6-18 years were examined clinically. The subjects were categorized into three age groups, 6-9 years with early mixed dentition, 10-14 years with late mixed dentition and 15-18 years with permanent dentition. The examiners were calibrated before the survey and the agreement was satisfactory. Anteroposterior relationships of the dental arches were measured according to Angle's classification. Other occlusal and space variables included overjet, overbite, openbite, crossbite, crowding, spacing, and separate determination of diastema mediale. Most of the subjects in different age groups, 93-96%, had Angle's Class I molar occlusion. Large overjet (> 5 mm) occurred in 3-5% of the subjects. Deep bite (> 5 mm) was observed in about 2% of the children in all age groups. Anterior open bite was the most prevalent occlusal anomaly in all age groups, noted in 9-13% of the subjects. Transversal occlusal anomalies were rare. More than 33% of the subjects had spacing while less than 10% had crowding of the dentition. These results indicate that using the present criteria, most 6- to 18-year olds in Ilala district have optimal sagittal occlusion and a lot of spacing. The most common occlusal anomaly was anterior openbite.</p>","PeriodicalId":76983,"journal":{"name":"African dental journal : official publication of the Federation of African Dental Associations = Journal dentaire africain","volume":"6 ","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12517628","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}