Dental Aid Research Articles

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Most people in developing countries have little or no access to organized oral health care or to basic emergency dental treatment. The main reasons are lack of dentists and poor socio-economic status. Particularly access to dental health is characteristic of isolated groups such as, e.g., lepers’ colonies. The author presents her own observations gathered during two medical missions organized by the Redemptoris Missio Humanitarian Aid Foundation to the Karunalaya Leprosy Care Center in Puri, in 2001 and 2003. The paper describes the problems resulting from health status, methods of dental treatment and ways of teeth cleaning. The author’s experience shows that even if dental aid is rendered at irregular intervals it allows to treat successfully a relatively high number of patients. The poor appreciate any dental help, which, in turn, encourages the dentist to continue his/her efforts in the future.

Dental aid organisations: baseline data about their reality today

To collect basic data about non-governmental dental aid organisations on a global scale and thus contribute to a better understanding of their diversity, activities and limitations. Data was collected through a mailed questionnaire to all organisations listed by the FDI World Dental Federation. A second questionnaire was e-mailed to those organisations identified as non-governmental organisations (NGO) by the first questionnaire. The response rate to the first questionnaire to detect NGOs was 36.2%, to the second e-mailed form 84.4%. About two thirds of NGOs originated in developed countries, one third responded from developing countries. The majority had been established after 1980. Developed countries dental NGOs tended to have larger membership and disposed of greater budgets. In general, income was generated predominantly from donations and own resources. The workforce was primarily based on volunteers. High priority activities: service provision, education and training, technical assistance, community development. Measures for quality assurance showed low complexity. Frequent areas of problems were associated with funding and staff. Collaborative links with other stakeholders in development were weak and focussed on information exchange. Recommendations for NGOs, donors, FDI and future research are developed.

The survey of the patients in the project of dental aid services for the elderly in the commemoration of His Majesty The King's Six-Cycle Birthday

The survey of the patients in the project of dental aid services for the elderly in the commemoration of His Majesty The King's Six-Cycle Birthday

Dental aid in the Himalayas.

From January to July of 1991, I worked on a dental project in Dharamsala, Northern India whose aim was to leave the Tibetan community there dentally self-sufficient. Since 1959, following the Chinese invasion of Tibet, India and Nepal have become home to thousands of Tibetan refugees. Dharamsala is home to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, and also of the largest Tibetan refugee communities (approximately 15,000).

Project teeth relief: dental aid for rural Zambia

For 10 weeks, at the end of last year, my wife and I went out to Zambia with Project Teeth Relief, a UK based charity providing dental care to the rural areas of Zambia. The aim of the charity is to provide emergency dental care, dental health education and training for local health workers in the rural areas where there are no dental services available. Dentists on long-term contracts and volunteers who will spend 2-3 months at a time in the rural area are needed urgently to go out to the country.

Medical Sign Language. Easily Understood Definitions of Commonly Used Medical, Dental and First Aid Terms.

Medical Sign Language. Easily Understood Definitions of Commonly Used Medical, Dental and First Aid Terms.

Improvisational dental first aid used by American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia

Improvisational dental first aid used by American prisoners of war in Southeast Asia

Involved in Mankind: A Survey of Some Aspects of International Dentistry

Nineteen organizations responded to a survey on the extent of their involvement with foreign dental aid. Many of the groups are religiously oriented; others are independent groups. The surveyed organizations have served 119 countries with some type of aid—equipment, supplies, or treatment, or a combination of these. Many of the groups seek volunteer dentists to serve with their projects overseas. Nineteen organizations responded to a survey on the extent of their involvement with foreign dental aid. Many of the groups are religiously oriented; others are independent groups. The surveyed organizations have served 119 countries with some type of aid—equipment, supplies, or treatment, or a combination of these. Many of the groups seek volunteer dentists to serve with their projects overseas.

Pain Control and Patient Management in Dentistry—a Review of Current Intravenous Technics

Because many people will visit a dentist only when driven to do so by pain, it is believed that dental aid plans alone will not bring about the hoped-for radical change in community dental health. Consequently, the search for safe, painless technics that will enhance the public image of dentistry goes on. Attention is directed to the growing use of intravenously administered drugs. Safety and a high standard of treatment can be achieved by skilled practitioners who are trained in the proper use of these intravenous technics.

More about Dental Aid in Identification

More about Dental Aid in Identification

Operative procedure with special reference to pedodontia

C HILDREN’S dentistry and dental economics are the two topics that occupy the position of major importance in the dental literature of today. Only recently. one of our important publications, the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTIA, eliminated its section of oral surgery to make room for a section on children’s dentistry. Any discussion of children’s dent,istry will inevitably embrace a consideration of economics ; and, conversely, any discussion of economics must embrace both children’s dentistry and preventive factors. Whether caries has for its etiologic factors nutritional disturbances, vitamin deficiencies, or chemicoparasitic action, I believe that in combating this disease the campaign should start with the child. The foregoing st,atement is not a preface to a paper on preventive dentistry, but rather a reason for serious consideration of children’s dentistry. The conscientious care of the child’s t,eeth, accompanied by an intelligent effort on the part of the operator to make the child understand the cause and effect of caries, is in itself a most important contribution to the cause of preventive dentistry. Not infrequently, the child is the only reason that many adults listen with any serious attention to the dentist offering instructions for the care of the teeth; for it is a well known fact that some people are bored, if not irritated, by the sermon of oral hygiene as preached by a sometimes overzealous dentist. Life would be simpler if we were all super psychologists. Not so many years ago, children’s deciduous teeth were neglected because they were to have another chance at teeth, and many of those who did seek dental aid for the child minimized its importance and expected minimum fees besides. This attitude on the part of the parent,, plus the tedium of managing some children, is the reason that many operators either decline to take care of children or do so reluctantly. There was a time when the mother accepted, for the child, dental services which she thought were inferior to those she herself demanded, but viewpoints have changed. I have had called to my attention instances where mothers have taken their children to dentists whose services they fancied to be superior to those of the man who cared for their teeth. Doswell Wallis, L.D.S., England, outlines the aim of modern dentistry in the following terse sentences :

The provision of dental aid for necessitous school children

The provision of dental aid for necessitous school children