Dentists Should Research Articles

LOCAL ANESTHETICS AND PREGNANCY. A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE AND WHY DENTISTS SHOULD FEEL SAFE TO TREAT PREGNANT PEOPLE.

Oral health and dental treatment are essential during pregnancy. Despite dental treatment being safe during pregnancy for mother and baby, many dentists are reluctant to treat pregnant people. Previously published FDA and ADA recommendations for the treatment of pregnant people exist. Consensus statements and injectable local anesthetic manufacturers' information exist as well. Yet many dentists continue to demonstrate reluctance and hesitancy to treat pregnant people during all stages of pregnancy and for all routine comprehensive care such as exams, diagnostic radiographs, scaling and root planning, restorative, endodontic, and oral surgical procedures. Local anesthetics are most widely used in dental treatment, and many dental procedures necessitate their use when treating pregnant people. To facilitate dentists... comfort and clinical decision-making in the use of local anesthetics in improving the pregnant population's receipt of dental treatment and care outcomes and to calibrate practices to the current standard of practice aligning with contemporary evidence, this paper will review essential published evidence-based studies, guidelines, resources, and information from national organizations responsible for protecting the public's health.

Decoding COVID-19: What Dentist Should Know?

The outbreak of the Corona virus has rapidly escalated globally as a Pandemic. Due to the characteristic dental setup & procedures the risk of cross infection is sky high not only to the Dental health care personnel but also to the patients. During this time utilizing digital resources to assist patients can be of great advantage. Doing less invasive procedures with more protection and screening can be the finest way to battle the situation. This pandemic situation provides an unprecedented opportunity for the dental community to shift the practice towards the use of Teledentistry. Teledentistry may overcome the obstacle in providing sufficient oral health services comfortably during the current pandemic situation. Although the world of Dentistry has many challenges the main aim is to provide value-based dental care and exploit the tremendous potential of Telecommunication services & other virtual and digital alternatives to confront the challenges that are faced due to infection control, lack of awareness etc. Keywords: Artificial intelligence,COVID-19, Dentistry, Pandemic, Teledentistry.

COVID-19 Disease in Children: What Dentists Should Know and Do to Prevent Viral Spread. The Italian Point of View.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the globe, becoming a major public health challenge not for China only, but also for countries around the world. Despite worldwide efforts to contain viral spread, the outbreak has not been stopped yet. Among healthcare personnel, dentists seem to be at elevated risk of exposure to COVID-19. This risk is even more serious in pediatric dentistry, since affected children, frequently, present an asymptomatic, mild or moderate clinical viral infection and, therefore, they may play a major role in community-based COVID-19 transmission. To date, despite no universal guidelines are available for dental procedures in pediatric dentistry during COVID-19 outbreak, routine dental practice should be postponed and only severe dental emergencies must be treated. In the case of a dental emergency, involving a pediatric patient, dentists should be aware of which recommended management protocol can be adopted during the practice to protect patient health, to safeguard their-self and to prevent viral transmission. The aim of this paper is to provide clinical recommendations, presenting a needed tool for dentists to allow a valid and safe how-to-do protocol. Pediatric dentists should keep a high level of awareness to help patients, minimize risk and prevent viral spread.

Why Dentists Should Treat Periodontal Disease in Patients with Respiratory Disease? The Impact of Oral Health on Fragile Patients

Why Dentists Should Treat Periodontal Disease in Patients with Respiratory Disease? The Impact of Oral Health on Fragile Patients

Multiple Myeloma - What a Dentist Should Know?

Multiple myeloma is a plasma cell derived malignancy which involves long bones, skull and jaw bone. Sometimes the disease primarily involves jaw bone or occurs along with other bones causing changes in oral cavity which can be detected by a dentist.

Why Dentists Should Become Oral Physicians: A Response to Dr. Donald Giddon's “Why Dentists Should Be Called Oral Physicians Now”

Why Dentists Should Become Oral Physicians: A Response to Dr. Donald Giddon's “Why Dentists Should Be Called Oral Physicians Now”

Why Dentists Should Become Oral Physicians: A Response to Dr. Donald Giddon's “Why Dentists Should Be Called Oral Physicians Now”

In the February issue of the Journal of Dental Education , Dr. Donald Giddon wrote a Perspectives article entitled “Why Dentists Should Be Called Oral Physicians Now.”[1][1] Dr. Giddon had previously expressed the point that dentists should be called oral physicians in a point/counterpoint

Why Dentists Should Be Called Oral Physicians Now

Although health care is becoming increasingly complex, medical specialists including dentists are becoming more isolated from participation in total health care.[1][1] Given this isolation and the shortage of health care in the United States, medicine faces a challenge to “find synergies and new

What the Dentist Should Know About a Patient with HIV/AIDS

Chances are good that oral health care providers will treat someone with diagnosed or undiagnosed HIV during their careers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 650,000 to 900,000 U.S. residents are living with HIV infection, more than 200,000 of whom are unaware of their infection. As with any medical condition, it is possible for a dentist to do great harm by ignoring systemic manifestations of HIV. On the other hand, dentists who are ignorant of modern HIV disease management often request unnecessary medical consultations resulting in dental treatment delays. Since 1996, the growing use of highly active anti-retroviral therapy and ultrasensitive viral load testing has changed the picture of the dental patient with HIV. The goal of this article is to update and summarize information the oral health care provider needs to safely treat a person with HIV/AIDS. It is not intended to replace previous comprehensive publications on HIV and dentistry, as they are still excellent resources for information. Here, simple instructions for physical evaluation of a patient with HIV/AIDS will be presented and steps for determining safe procedures explained.

Fluoride Rinsing: What Dentists Should Know

Self-application of fluoride by rinsing has gained popularity as a relatively easy method of providing frequent topical fluoride contact to the teeth. The two principal fluoride rinsing methods, low potency / high frequency and high potency / low frequency, are described.

What a prosthodontist should know

lhis report is based on the results of a Workshop which was part of the proceedings of the Academy of Denture Prosthetics Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La., held on May 15, 1968. The background papers presented include: “Knowledge and Skills a Dentist Should Possess to Practice Prosthodontics” by Dr. S. Howard Payne; “Postdoctoral Education in Prosthodontics” by Dr. John Sharry; “Knowledge and Skills That Should be Included in a Graduate Prosthodontic Program” by Dr. Carl 0. Boucher; “The Role of the Prosthodontist in a Hospital” by Dr. I. Kenneth Adisman; and “Knowledge and Skills a Candidate Should Possess to Appear Before the American Board of Prosthodontics” by Dr. Heinz 0. Beck.*** Conclusions based on a statistical analysis of responses to questions presented to the participants of this Workshop will also be included in this report. The magnitude of the information accumulated required disciplined editing and condensation and is reported with awareness of the importance it will have on the future direction of graduate prosthodontic education. The specialty of prosthodontics represents a broad spectrum of services and responsibilities to a varied patient population with medical, surgical, dental, behavioral, and biologic defects. The scope of prosthodontics has expanded from the narrow confines of complete and removable partial denture services to include the provision of fixed partial dentures and maxillofacial prosthetics. The demands of an increasing and longlived population for a higher standard of prosthodontic service and the need for more dentists, more colleges of dentistry, more hospitals, more dental services and dental health programs, more teachers of prosthetic dentistry, more and better

A Study of Inflammatory Conditions That the Dentist Should Recognize

A Study of Inflammatory Conditions That the Dentist Should Recognize

Nutritional Facts the Dentist Should Know

Nutritional Facts the Dentist Should Know

The Practical Things Every Dentist Should Know Regarding the Treatment of Periodontoclasia

The Practical Things Every Dentist Should Know Regarding the Treatment of Periodontoclasia

What Every Dentist Should Know About Surgical Lesions of, and in the Region of, The Upper And Lower Jaw

What Every Dentist Should Know About Surgical Lesions of, and in the Region of, The Upper And Lower Jaw