Parental perspectives on preterm children's oral health behaviour and experience of dental care during preschool and early school years

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSANNE BROGÅRDH-ROTH ◽  
KARIN STJERNQVIST ◽  
LARS MATSSON ◽  
GUNILLA KLINGBERG
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Brogårdh-Roth ◽  
Johanna Månsson ◽  
Karin Ridell ◽  
Lubna Alward ◽  
Kristina Hellén-Halme ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Desy Purnama Sari

The covid-19 pandemic is hitting the world including Indonesia. Work from home (WFH) is one of the Indonesian goverment's policy to prevent the spread of covid-19. The mothers knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding oral health are the important indicator that reflect their children's oral health behaviour. Objective:  to analyse the relationship of mother's knowledge and practice to the children's oral health behaviour during WFH in the covid-19 era. Method: This is a cross-sectional study used the purposive sampling techniques. Thirty respondents were selected by the following criterias: women; have children aged 12 months until 12 years; work outside the home as employees; and willing to participated in this study. Respondents were instructed to fill the self-administered questionnaire through the Google Form application. Data of the mother's knowledge, practice and the children's behaviour were collected, then analysed by computerizing system. Results: Good knowledge and positive practice about oral health was represented by each 73,3% respondents. Approximately 76,7% of the children had satisfaction behaviour and only 23,3% had unsatisfaction of oral health behaviour. The study shows a statistical significant relationship of mothers’ knowledge level (p=0,003) and mother's practices (p=0,044) to their children's behavior toward oral health care. Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between mother's knowledge and practices to the children's oral health behaviour. Good knowledge and positive attitude of mothers determined the satisfaction of children's behaviour in the oral health care, especially int the covid-19 era.


Author(s):  
Enes Karamehmedovic ◽  
Elmedin Bajric ◽  
Jorma I. Virtanen

The oral health situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is among the worst in Europe. We investigated the oral health behaviour of primary schoolchildren and their parents in Sarajevo. This was an anonymous cross-sectional survey among third-grade schoolchildren and their parents’ oral health habits in Canton Sarajevo. Cluster random sampling yielded a representative sample from all the public schools in Canton Sarajevo in 2019. The survey targeted a total of 441 children and 365 parents. Two thirds (66.5%) of the children reported brushing their teeth twice daily, and almost half of them failed to use fluoride toothpaste daily. Girls brushed their teeth significantly more often than did the boys (74% vs. 58%, p = 0.004). Children living in residential areas of middle and high socioeconomic status (SES) reported better oral health habits than did those living in areas of low SES. Our study showed that Sarajevo children’s oral health habits were poor. One-third of the nine-year-olds failed to brush their teeth according to recommendations, and almost half of them failed to use fluoride toothpaste daily. Improving the children’s oral health in the future will urgently require national oral health promotion and prevention programmes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Martignon ◽  
Andrea Cortes ◽  
Gail V. A. Douglas ◽  
J. Timothy Newton ◽  
Nigel B. Pitts ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Comprehensive caries care has shown effectiveness in controlling caries progression and improving health outcomes by controlling caries risk, preventing initial-caries lesions progression, and patient satisfaction. To date, the caries-progression control effectiveness of the patient-centred risk-based CariesCare International (CCI) system, derived from ICCMS™ for the practice (2019), remains unproven. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic a previously planned multi-centre RCT shifted to this “Caries OUT” study, aiming to assess in a single-intervention group in children, the caries-control effectiveness of CCI adapted for the pandemic with non-aerosols generating procedures (non-AGP) and reducing in-office time. Methods In this 1-year multi-centre single-group interventional trial the adapted-CCI effectiveness will be assessed in one single group in terms of tooth-surface level caries progression control, and secondarily, individual-level caries progression control, children’s oral-health behaviour change, parents’ and dentists’ process acceptability, and costs exploration. A sample size of 258 3–5 and 6–8 years old patients was calculated after removing half from the previous RCT, allowing for a 25% dropout, including generally health children (27 per centre). The single-group intervention will be the adapted-CCI 4D-cycle caries care, with non-AGP and reduced in-office appointments’ time. A trained examiner per centre will conduct examinations at baseline, at 5–5.5 months (3 months after basic management), 8.5 and 12 months, assessing the child’s CCI caries risk and oral-health behaviour, visually staging and assessing caries-lesions severity and activity without air-drying (ICDAS-merged Epi); fillings/sealants; missing/dental-sepsis teeth, and tooth symptoms, synthetizing together with parent and external-trained dental practitioner (DP) the patient- and tooth-surface level diagnoses and personalised care plan. DP will deliver the adapted-CCI caries care. Parents’ and dentists’ process acceptability will be assessed via Treatment-Evaluation-Inventory questionnaires, and costs in terms of number of appointments and activities. Twenty-one centres in 13 countries will participate. Discussion The results of Caries OUT adapted for the pandemic will provide clinical data that could help support shifting the caries care in children towards individualised oral-health behaviour improvement and tooth-preserving care, improving health outcomes, and explore if the caries progression can be controlled during the pandemic by conducting non-AGP and reducing in-office time. Trial registration: Retrospectively-registered-ClinicalTrials.gov-NCT04666597-07/12/2020: https://register.clinicaltrials.gov/prs/app/action/SelectProtocol?sid=S000AGM4&selectaction=Edit&uid=U00019IE&ts=2&cx=uwje3h. Protocol-version 2: 27/01/2021.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL3) ◽  
pp. 1069-1076
Author(s):  
Sundar R ◽  
Yuvaraj Babu K ◽  
Gayathri R

Oral health status is directly proportional to a person's oral health behaviour. Oral health of a person can be determined by their regular oral habits like brushing, flossing, smoking and regular dental check-up. Maintenance of poor oral health can lead to severe dental problems. The aim of the study is to create awareness about oral health and behaviour among the dental and engineering undergraduate students. The self-administered questionnaire prepared about oral health behaviour, distributed to 100 dental and engineering graduate students through online google link and data is collected and analysed. From the collected data, 87.18% of dental students brush daily, and 84.62% of engineering students use dental floss to clean the gap between the teeth. This survey helps to bring knowledge on the awareness of oral health behaviour among the dental and engineering students. From this survey, we have concluded that dental students have good oral hygiene when compared to engineering students.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Olak ◽  
Minh Son Nguyen ◽  
Thuy Trang Nguyen ◽  
Bui Bao Tien Nguyen ◽  
Mare Saag

BDJ ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 214 (11) ◽  
pp. E27-E27 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Drummond ◽  
A. M. Meldrum ◽  
D. Boyd

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