Awareness of Oral Disorders Among Community-Dwelling Elderly Spaniards.

Oral status has a clear impact on systemic health, a key component of successful aging. Awareness of oral disorders permits early diagnoses and treatments. This study investigates oral disorders awareness among community-dwelling elders.

Family nurses, oral hygiene, and educational implications: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: To describe family nurses self-reported oral hygiene practices and to compare them with those of their potential patients in a public, free, and universal primary healthcare system.

Material And Methods: Cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire applied to randomly selected participants and their family nurses.

Results: A total of 1,394 people entered the study (1,326 laypersons, 66 nurses).

Impact of the systematic use of the informed consent form at public dental care units in Galicia (Spain).

Aim: To ascertain the impact of routine application of the informed consent form at the primary dental care units of the Galician Health Service.

Study Design: Non random selection of consecutive patients seeking tooth extraction between 9 January and 7 March 2007 at the dental care units of Burela, Praza do Ferrol and Viveiro (Lugo). The study included sociodemographic, clinical, utilization, behavioural and IC-related variables.

[Brushing teeth: how to promote this habit in children].

To teach how to correctly brush teeth to elementary students in their own school is a method widely used by health educators. This article analyses the results of an educational project promoted by the Burela, Lugo mayor's office which instructed 58 six-year-old students in oral hygiene. After receiving instructions how to brush their teeth using a rotational technique, those students had problems with their right side half arches, lower dental arch in general, and the molar tongue faces.

Stress amongst primary dental care patients.

Aims: to determine the prevalence of dental fear amongst primary dental care units (PDCU) patients and to characterize them according to socio-demographic features.

Study Design: non-probabilistic sampling on new and consecutive patients demanding exodontia at the Burela, Praza do Ferrol and Viveiro (Lugo) PDCUs from 9 january to 7 march and from 18 june to 21 september 2007. The variables considered were "demographic" (age, gender, address and educational level), "treatment-related" (reason for extraction, root extraction), "attitudes" (accompanied yes/no, spontaneous fear comments yes/no) and "stress" determined using a visual analogue scale (VAS).