POPULATION ORAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT Introduction Inequalities within the oral health care system remain a prevalent concern amongst health care providers, and dental services are still largely provided through private practices without the benefit of a universal access scheme. Public services currently attempt to prioritise cases by severity of need, but patients still consistently encounter lengthy waits during which their oral health status is likely to deteriorate. The populations at greatest risk
pharmacological aids and health care in our society there is a rise on the elderly population. Do to this rise, there is an increase in nursing home residents which created a higher demand for Certified Nursing Assistants or CNA’s in order to match the increased demand in personal care. The demand was so great that is was reported “that more that 90% of America’s nursing homes had too few workers” (Hefner pg.283). With numerous CNA’s over booked with patients and daily individual patient health schedules, the
Abstract: Background: Recent studies have implicated a direct relation between total antioxidant status of unstimulated saliva and dental caries, which can pave way in understanding the susceptibility of individuals for dental caries. Aim: To evaluate the Total Antioxidant Level (TAL) in unstimulated saliva of children, and to correlate the TAL with caries experience and periodontal health. Design: A total of 60 children, in the age group of 6-12 yrs, were included in the study. Children were divided
facial features and sinus expansion which leads to chronic headache finally temporomandibular disorders. Studies strongly suggest that, dental caries and periodontal disease were the major causes of tooth loss in early childhood and adolescence. Transgender community doesn’t bother about their oral health because of their lower socioeconomic status
the dental hygienist part of the industry. This is a very competitive major because there is fewer jobs available do to the fact that dental hygienist are not allowed to do some of their procedures without the doctor in the dental office and in some cases the doctor must be present in the room. There is also new jobs being brought up and created every year that give the dental hygienist less clients because the state is trying to get some
which could be as a result of heredity or human carelessness. Diseases are abnormal condition of the body that causes dysfunction in the body, the human body is prone to numerous diseases, Periodontal diseases and kidney problems are both important health issues that cannot be taken lightly. Periodontal disease and kidney disease remain many of those diseases you find people visiting the hospital constantly to attend to. Periodontal disease is a chronic, non-communicable gum infection that destroys
Low-level laser therapy vs. FDA-approved 5% Amlexanox: A comparative study to understand the healing effects in a cohort of minor apthous ulcer patients Introduction Recurrent apthous ulcer (RAU) or recurrent apthous stomatitis (RAS) which are commonly called as canker sores are small, round, oval-shaped ulcers having yellow or gray floors and are surrounded by erythematous haloes.1 They generally occur in the oral mucosa and rarely on the gums.2 It has been observed that about 5–25% of the population
unsafe levels of the heavy metal Cadmium (Cd), in whom biomagnification can cause Cd levels to be as much as one million times higher than the ambient environment. The health hazard of Cd exposure was first recognised in the early 1950s. Some effects include renal disease and pre-diabetes. This paper considers a Bangladeshi case study of heavy metal contamination in prawns and prawn feed, aiming to illustrate whether seafood is safe for human consumption from the perspective of Cd contamination. 2
article was to evaluate the prevalence of posterior cross bite on the basis of gender. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 100 patients i.e 50 male patients and 50 female patients in Orthodontics Department, Fatima Memorial Hospital College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore under University of Health Sciences. Clinical examination of 100 patients and analysis of their pretreatment study casts were performed. SPSS (21.0) was used for data analysis. 32% of the patients had posterior cross bite
TREATMENT OF CONGO VIRUS IN HUMANS INTRODUCTION: Congo virus is a lethal disease with fatality rate of (10-40) %. Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic fever is caused by a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) of the Bunyaviridae family. Animals get infected by the bite of infected ticks. The virus is transmitted to people by bites of tick bugs or through contact with infected animals blood during or immediately after slaughter. Most of the infected people are involved in livestock industry like slaughter house