Perception of racism explains the difference between Blacks' and Whites' level of healthcare trust.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that the level of healthcare trust does not differ between Blacks and Whites.

Design: Cross-sectional telephone-based survey.

Methods: This study recruited low-income residents of Miami-Dade and Duval counties in Florida by using random-digit dialing (RDD).

The influence of dental insurance on institutionalized older adults in ranking their oral health status.

To assess whether dental insurance influences how institutionalized older adults ages 65 and older rank their oral health status, a census survey was designed for residents of Durham's (Canada) Municipal Homes for the Aged. The odds ratio (OR) and the Cochran & Mantel-Haenszel's OR were used to estimate the crude and adjusted effect of dental insurance on oral health status, respectively. Overall, 64 percent participated in the interview.

Further data on the predictability of the indirect sinus elevation procedure used with short, sintered, porous-surfaced dental implants.

The object of this report was to provide further data supporting the use of short (primarily 7-mm-long) dental implants with a sintered, porous-surface geometry to treat the posterior maxilla using the indirect, osteotome-mediated, localized sinus elevation procedure. Records were available for 104 Endopore implants (Innova) in 70 patients, for whom the majority of implants had been placed in the location of the maxillary first molar. The mean initial subantral bone height before implant placement was 4.

Osteotome sinus elevation and simultaneous placement of porous-surfaced dental implants: a morphometric study in rabbits.

The objective was to establish a model in rabbits in which to study the healing events associated with localized indirect osteotome-mediated maxillary sinus floor elevation in conjunction with simultaneous placement of sintered porous-surfaced dental implants. On one side of the maxilla of each of 28 rabbits, a sintered porous-surfaced titanium alloy press-fit implant was placed without the use of a bone graft material, while on the collateral side an implant was placed after first adding Bio-Oss graft particles to the osteotomy. Specimens were retrieved for morphometric assessment of bone contact and bone ingrowth of the porous implant surface after 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks of healing.

Removal, replacement and placement of amalgam restorations by Ontario dentists in 2002.

Aim: To determine the patterns of removal, replacement and placement of amalgam restorations by Ontario dentists.

Methods: A structured self-administered postal survey was sent to dentists randomly selected from the list of all dentists licensed to practise dentistry in Ontario. The questionnaire sought information on the numbers of 1-, 2-, 3- and > or = 4-surfaced amalgam restorations and core amalgam build-ups that each dentist removed, replaced and placed during a 7-day period.