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{"title":"Early Childhood Caries - Essential Information for Primary Healthcare Providers","authors":"Saniya Mariam, Nishath Ahmed Liyakat, Vidya Kanamkote Narayanan, S. Kalyanasundaram, Kandamaran Krishnamurthy","doi":"10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.2.1.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.2.1.004","url":null,"abstract":"Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is one of the most common chronic infectious diseases of childhood. It represents a significant disease burden with long-term consequences for a child's health and well-being. Primary health care providers (pediatricians, family physicians, pediatric nurses) are the first point of contact for parents for any child health-related issues as they see them repeatedly in the first few years of life for vaccinations and \"well-baby\" visits. However, their awareness regarding caries in primary dentition and its complications may be limited. This article has summarized important information on ECC, focusing on the health care provider's role in its early diagnosis and prevention.","PeriodicalId":92701,"journal":{"name":"Oral health and dental studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48822366","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":"Dento-Skeletal Abnormalities in School-aged Children in Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study","authors":"M. Shirazi, Y. Jalali, H. Hessari","doi":"10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.2.1.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.2.1.003","url":null,"abstract":"Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate skeleto-dental abnormalities in 9-11-year-old school children, in Tehran, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this population-based cross-sectional descriptive study, a random cluster sampling was done among 19 school districts. A total of 1,429 socioeconomically and ethnically diverse Iranian schoolchildren, aged 9-11 years were studied. A brief questionnaire including background information such as gender and age was completed by the parents. Clinical examinations included the evaluation of sagittal and vertical skeletal relationship, Facial form (facial index), and the presence of significant asymmetry. Results: There were 758 males and 671 females with the mean age of 10 years±8 months. According to the sagittal skeletal relationship, the most prevalent type was convex (63%) that presenting the skeletal Cl II jaw relation; followed by straight (32.9%); and then concave (4.1%). In the vertical skeletal relationship, 73.9% of the children had an average facial relationship, 18.4 % had a long face pattern; and 7.8% had a short face pattern. Regarding facial form in the frontal view, the most common was the average form (79.3%); followed by narrow (14%); and broad (6.7%). The prevalence of significant facial asymmetry was 15.2%. Conclusion: The prevalence of dento-skeletal abnormalities were high. The majority of the Iranian schoolchildren, aged 9-11 years, had at least one dento-skeletal abnormality, even though it is commonly preventable.","PeriodicalId":92701,"journal":{"name":"Oral health and dental studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48170764","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":"Barriers to Health Care for Children with Orofacial Clefts: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for Research Priorities","authors":"N. Nidey, George L. Wehby","doi":"10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.2.1.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.2.1.002","url":null,"abstract":"Background: There is a growing interest in health services research of orofacial clefts (OFC) in the United States. The objective of this study is to summarize the empirical knowledge to date about barriers to health care for children with OFC. Methods: We completed a systematic literature review to identify articles on barriers to health care for children with OFC in the United States. Pubmed, Embase, CINAHL, and Medline were searched from their dates of origin through June 2018 using a combination of key terms related to access and barriers to health care. Case reports and studies of populations outside of the United States were excluded. Results: 4079 publications were identified using our search strategy. After a title and abstract review, 18 were included in our review as they met inclusion criteria. These studies examined health care costs, health insurance coverage, access to team care, geographic barriers, adequacy of training of community-based providers in providing services to children with OFC, and socioeconomic and demographic factors. The key findings indicate much higher health care costs for children with OFC than unaffected children early in childhood, racial/ethnic disparities in certain access measures, and inadequate insurance coverage, distance to teams, and inadequate training of community-based providers in OFC-specific services as potential areas of concern. Except for studies on health care costs, the evidence is largely based on relatively small and primarily descriptive studies. Conclusions: The extant literature documents high health care costs for OFC treatments and suggests inadequate insurance coverage, long distance to cleft teams, and racial/ethnic disparities as critical factors related to access. We discuss multiple future research priorities. Among these, understanding the impacts of variation between states in mandates for private insurance benefits and generosity in Medicaid coverage on access to care as well as effects of differences in provider reimbursements are particularly understudied areas that can be meaningful for policymaking aimed at improving access and health outcomes of children with OFC. Examining access throughout childhood and later in life and employing robust designs and population-representative data are also important research and methodological extensions of the current literature.","PeriodicalId":92701,"journal":{"name":"Oral health and dental studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69996388","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":"Mechanical and Physical Properties of Experimental Antifungal Denture Base Resins","authors":"Kyle Maldonado, David S. Xu, Yapin Wang, Jian-feng Zhang, S. Hamdan, Z. Wen, P. Fidel, Mairi C. Noverr, Xiaoming Xu","doi":"10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.1.1.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.1.1.005","url":null,"abstract":"Many denture wearers suffer from fungal infections, particularly Candida albicans, due to failure to properly clean or remove the prosthesis. These infections can cause denture stomatitis, which often leads to irritated or traumatized tissues. Current denture base materials do not have antifungal properties. We have recently synthesized several new antifungal compounds containing 1,4-diazabicyclo [2.2.2] octane (DABCO) (DC16NF, 1 DC11MAF, C2-DC11MAF) that have shown significant antifungal properties. The purpose of this study is to incorporate these novel antifungal compounds and test mechanical and physical properties of the resulting antifungal materials. The Clotrimazole was also incorporated into denture acrylics and used as a positive control. Samples were then prepared into discs and bars. All groups were tested for flexural strength, flexural modulus, water sorption, and solubility. The results showed that all experimental groups exhibited similar flexural strength as the control, except DC16NF, which had significantly lower strength than the control. DC16NF and DC11MAF both exhibited significantly lower flexural modulus compared to the control while C2DC11MAF exhibited similar flexural modulus as the control. All experimental groups exhibited higher water sorption than the control and a similar or lower solubility as compared to the control. These results suggest that the new antifungal denture base materials possess similar mechanical and physical properties as commercial denture materials, although the formulations can be further optimized. Received: May 14, 2018 Accepted: August 13, 2018 Published: August 29, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Maldonado K, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Corresponding author: Kyle Maldonado and Xiaoming Xu, Department of Comprehensive Dentistry and Biomaterials, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, USA. E-mail: Kylemaldonado90@gmail.com and xxu@lsuhsc.edu Citation: Maldonado K, Xu D, Wang Y, Zhang JF, Hamdan S, Wen ZT, Fidel PL, Noverr MC, Xu X. Mechanical and Physical Properties of Experimental Antifungal Denture Base Resins. Oral Health and Dental Studies. 2018; 1(1):5. Open Access","PeriodicalId":92701,"journal":{"name":"Oral health and dental studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44116456","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":"Pierre Robin Sequence- Manifestation and Case Report","authors":"E. Mass, S. Segal, Y. Arieli, U. Zilberman","doi":"10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.1.1.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.1.1.004","url":null,"abstract":"A boy with Pierre Robin sequence, an autosomal recessive inherited craniofacial anomaly, defined as suffering from a chronic condition that puts him in the category of children with special needs, received comprehensive dental and orthodontic treatment.The child was diagnosed immediately after birth and suffered from respiratory and feeding problems that required tracheotomy and gastrostomy, and surgical repair of cleft palate. The course of treatments, the complications, and their solutions is described. A multidisciplinary team including pediatric, ENT, general and oral surgeons, speech therapist, pediatric dentist, and orthodontic specialists should be involved in the treatment of PRS children for a relatively better quality of life outcome. Received: Feb 15, 2018 Accepted: May 28, 2018 Published: June 08, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Zilberman U et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Corresponding author: Uri Zilberman, Head of the Pediatric Dental Unit, Barzilai Medical University Center, Ashkelon, Israel. E-mail: uri-z@bezeqint.net Citation: Mass, E, Segal S, Ariely Y, Zilberman U.Pierre Robin SequenceManifestation and Case Report. Oral Health and Dental Studies. 2018; 1(1):4. Open Access","PeriodicalId":92701,"journal":{"name":"Oral health and dental studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43221888","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":"Photo-cross-linked Antibacterial Zein Nanofibers Fabricated by Reactive Electrospinning and its Effects against <i>Streptococcus mutans</i>.","authors":"Jian-Feng Zhang,&nbsp;Yapin Wang,&nbsp;Sumei Liao,&nbsp;Thomas Lallier,&nbsp;Zezhang T Wen,&nbsp;Xiaoming Xu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Native zein electrospun nanofibers have shown poor solvent resistance and low mechanical strength. Compared to other toxic cross-linkers, a safer method of stabilizing zein based fibers while retaining or with improved mechanical strength is needed to convert these materials for biomedical applications where culture media or body fluids may be present. We report here a method of fabricating non-toxic zein nanofibers using reactive electrospinning coupled with <i>in situ</i> photo-cross-linking. The cross-linked zein nanofibers exhibited significantly improved mechanical strength and sustained morphology against water and aqueous ethanol solution. This process doesn't require additional conventional cross-linking agents to form cross-linking network, which is advantageous for biomedical applications. Antimicrobial monomer with photo-reactive moiety was coupled with methacrylate zein nanofibers and showed strong inhibitory activity against cariogenic <i>Streptococcus mutans.</i> Cytotoxicity test with human gingival fibroblasts revealed high biocompatibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":92701,"journal":{"name":"Oral health and dental studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6409179/pdf/nihms974146.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37225191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Photo-cross-linked Antibacterial Zein Nanofibers Fabricated by Reactive Electrospinning and its Effects against Streptococcus mutans.","authors":"Jian-feng Zhang, Yapin Wang, S. Liao, T. Lallier, Z. Wen, Xiaoming Xu","doi":"10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.1.1.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31532/oralhealthdentstud.1.1.001","url":null,"abstract":"Native zein electrospun nanofibers have shown poor solvent resistance and low mechanical strength. Compared to other toxic cross-linkers, a safer method of stabilizing zein based fibers while retaining or with improved mechanical strength is needed to convert these materials for biomedical applications where culture media or body fluids may be present. We report here a method of fabricating non-toxic zein nanofibers using reactive electrospinning coupled with in situ photo-cross-linking. The cross-linked zein nanofibers exhibited significantly improved mechanical strength and sustained morphology against water and aqueous ethanol solution. This process doesn't require additional conventional cross-linking agents to form cross-linking network, which is advantageous for biomedical applications. Antimicrobial monomer with photo-reactive moiety was coupled with methacrylate zein nanofibers and showed strong inhibitory activity against cariogenic Streptococcus mutans. Cytotoxicity test with human gingival fibroblasts revealed high biocompatibility.","PeriodicalId":92701,"journal":{"name":"Oral health and dental studies","volume":"1 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69996324","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}