Public Health.

Background: Current evidence links poor oral health, especially tooth loss, with impaired cognition. However, role of underlying causes of tooth loss e.g.

Benefits and challenges of the integration of haptics-enhanced virtual reality training within dental curricula.

Background: Haptics-enhanced virtual reality (VR-haptic) simulation in dental education has evolved considerably during the past decade, representing a promising resource of simulation-based training opportunities to support conventional practice. We aim to summarize current literature on the applications of VR-haptics in learning, practicing, and teaching dental education.

Methods: A literature search was performed using PubMed, focusing on research articles published between January 2010 and January 2024.

Association of Periodontal Condition With Impaired Glucose Tolerance: Results of a 15-Year Follow-Up Study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate whether periodontal condition is associated with the development of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).

Material And Methods: This study was based on a subpopulation of a cohort of persons born in 1935 and living in Oulu, Finland, on October 1, 1990. The participants were normoglycemic (no previously diagnosed diabetes mellitus and a 2-h oral glucose tolerance test [OGTT] blood glucose < 7.

Paediatric maxillofacial fractures have increased in incidence and their nature and aetiology have changed during three decades.

The safety of children's living environment is affected by several factors. Safer living environments have been offered as one explanation to decreases in children's fractures. Earlier studies provide evidence of a decreasing trend in children's fractures in the past decades.

Underweight, overweight, and weight change in older family caregivers and their care recipients: longitudinal evidence from a randomized controlled trial.

This study aimed to identify differences among body mass index (BMI) categories of older family caregivers (≥60 years) and their care recipients (≥65 years). Secondly, this study aimed to examine group differences and factors associated with weight change during a nutrition and oral health intervention. This secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrial.

Near-infrared light transillumination (NIR-LT) vs clinical-visual inspection/FOTI to detect interproximal caries lesions in vivo.

Objective: To evaluate the ability of near-infrared light transillumination (NIR-LT) to detect interproximal enamel and dentinal caries lesions compared to clinical-visual inspection aided by fiber-optic transillumination (FOTI).

Method And Materials: From 170 Finnish adolescents aged 15 to 17 years, 5,294 interproximal surfaces of premolars and molars were examined first clinical-visually aided by FOTI (VI+FOTI) using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS) classification. Subsequently, the surfaces were examined using NIR-LT.

Is the third molar the most frequently extracted tooth? A population-based study utilizing dental panoramic radiographs in adults.

Objectives: The study aimed to examine the authenticity of the often-mentioned statement that the third molar is the most frequently extracted tooth. This finding has not been shown previously in a large population-based sample.

Materials And Methods: Data comprised a nationally representative sample of 6082 panoramic radiographs taken from adults in the cross-sectional Health 2000 Survey.

Family caregivers' better nutritional status is associated with care recipients' better nutritional status.

Background And Aims: A high proportion of older care recipients (CRs) face malnutrition and risk of malnutrition, affecting their functional abilities and posing challenges for caregiving. The aim of this study was to assess the risk for malnutrition among older CRs and the associated characteristics of both CRs and family caregivers (FCs) with nutritional status of CRs.

Methods: A cross-sectional study consisted of 120 CRs (≥65 years) and their 118 FCs (≥60 years).

Use of oral health care services by family caregivers and care recipients: the LENTO intervention.

Objective: We aimed to evaluate the impact of an individually tailored preventive oral health intervention on the use of oral health care services by older family caregivers (FCs) and their care recipients (CRs).

Material And Methods: A randomized controlled six and 12-month oral health intervention study included FCs and CRs aged ≥65 years living in Eastern Finland. The participants were randomly assigned to an intervention (FCs n = 53, CRs n = 47) and a control (FCs n = 39, CRs n = 35) group.

Impact of an oral care subsidization reform on intersectional inequities in self-rated oral health in Sweden.

Background: Oral health in Sweden is good at the population level, but seemingly with persisting or increasing inequities over the last decades. In 2008, a major Swedish reform introduced universal partial subsidies to promote preventive care and reduce the treatment cost for patients with extensive care needs. This study aimed to apply an intersectional approach to assess the impact of the 2008 subsidization reform on inequities in self-rated oral health among adults in Sweden over the period 2004-2018.

Association of tooth location, occlusal support and chewing ability with cognitive decline and incident dementia.

Aim: Emerging evidence suggests association of tooth loss with impaired cognition. However, the differential effects of anterior versus posterior tooth loss, occlusal support loss and chewing ability are not considered comprehensively.

Materials And Methods: We conducted cross-sectional (N = 4036) and longitudinal analyses (N = 2787) on data from Health 2000 and 2011 Surveys for associations of posterior occlusal support loss, anterior versus posterior tooth loss, and chewing ability with baseline cognition and 11-year cognitive decline.

Use of oral health care services among older home care clients in the context of an intervention study.

Background: An increasing number of care-dependent older people living at home need external support to receive regular dental care.

Objectives: To investigate the use of oral health care services among old home care clients who participated in an intervention study focusing on oral self-care and nutrition.

Materials And Methods: This study employed data from the multidisciplinary Nutrition, Oral Health and Medication (NutOrMed) intervention study with a population-based sample of 245 home care clients (74% female) aged 75 or more divided in intervention (n = 140) and two control groups (n = 105).

Dietary inflammatory index in relation to salivary cytokine concentrations and periodontitis: A cross-sectional analysis.

Aim: To examine the associations of dietary inflammatory index (DII) with salivary cytokine concentrations and periodontitis after controlling for body mass index (BMI), socio-demographic factors and lifestyle.

Materials And Methods: Subgroups from two Finnish surveys, DILGOM 2007 and Health 2000, were included (total n = 727). The DII scores were calculated based on a food frequency questionnaire.

Assessing Social Inequalities in Older Family Caregivers' Frailty Conditions, Comorbidity, and Cognitive Functioning: A Cross-sectional Study.

We aimed to assess the social inequalities in older family caregivers' frailty conditions, comorbidity, and cognitive functioning. A cross-sectional study was conducted. Study participants were recruited in 2019 in Finland.

The combination of listening to background music and deep breathing as a stress reduction strategy during dental preclinical study.

Objectives: According to our earlier study, background music can help foster dental preclinical manual dexterity training and learning and has the potential to increase student satisfaction and productivity. Deep diaphragmatic breathing helps produce a relaxed mental state and is considered a behavioral coping strategy to reduce anxiety. Experimental data on whether background music combined with deep belly breathing reduces the stress and anxiety of preclinical dental students during practice is lacking.

Associations of inflammatory polyarthritis with clinical and radiological findings of temporomandibular disorders.

Objective: To evaluate the association of different forms of inflammatory polyarthritis with clinical signs of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and radiological findings in temporomandibular joint (TMJ), based on a nationwide health survey in Finland. The aim was also to assess the presence of clinical and radiological TMD findings in subjects with increased risk for developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Material And Methods: Anationally representative sample included 6331 Finnish adults who participated in the Health 2000 Survey (BRIF8901).

The use of dental anxiety management techniques during one-session treatment: a study on five video-recorded patient cases.

Objective: The aim was to examine what kinds of dental anxiety management techniques dentists use in the context of one-session treatment.

Material And Methods: The data consisted of videotaped treatment sessions for five dentally anxious adults. The treatment was conducted by two experienced dentists without formal training in the treatment of dentally anxious patients or behavioral management techniques.

Depressive symptoms, low-grade inflammation, and poor oral health prevents the success of nutritional guidance in older caregivers.

Purpose: The present study aimed to determine which factors prevents the success of nutritional interventions for older family caregivers (FCs), in the form of individually tailored nutritional guidance.

Methods: The present study focuses on the intervention group of FCs (n = 63) of a randomized controlled trial. Older FCs (≥60 years of age) receiving a care allowance for a home-living care recipient (≥65 years of age) were included in the present study, which focused on nutritional interventions via individually tailored nutritional guidance provided by a clinical nutritionist.

Older family caregivers' diet-related disparities: Cross-sectional evidence from Finland.

Background: Some older family caregivers experience financial vulnerabilities due to their caregiving role, which may affect their ability to afford appropriate food. This study aimed to assess the extent to which there are diet-related disparities among older family caregivers in Eastern Finland.

Methods: This study is based on the multidisciplinary LifEstyle, NutriTion and Oral health in caregivers (LENTO) study.

Association of tooth count with cognitive decline and dementia in the Finnish adult population.

Aim: To evaluate whether tooth loss is associated with cognitive decline and incident dementia.

Materials And Methods: We analysed data from the Finnish population-based Health 2000 and follow-up Health 2011 surveys (participants aged ≥30 years and without dementia at baseline; N = 5506 at baseline and 3426 at 11-year follow-up). Dementia diagnoses until 2015 were ascertained from national registers (N = 5542).

Large-group simulation as a learning method to promote interprofessional collaboration and older adults' patient centered-care.

Aims: This study described the influence of a large-group simulation on social and health care students´ working life competence concerning interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and patient centered-care.

Methods And Results: The target group (n = 319) was social and health care students from several different degree programs taking part in a large-group simulation concerning older people´s oral health as a part of his comprehensive well-being and health. Data were collected with a questionnaire containing background questions, statements about interprofessional practice and open-ended questions about learning experiences.

Prevalence and risk factors of frailty among older family caregivers.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of frailty and identify the demographical and clinical factors associated with frailty among older family caregivers.

Method: The participants of this cross-sectional study were older family caregivers (n = 125) living in Eastern Finland. Data on functional and cognitive status, depressive symptoms, nutritional status, medication, chronic diseases, stroke, and oral health were obtained.

Leadership and work community - views of graduating dental students.

Purpose: This study aims to explore what kind of perceptions dental students at graduation stage have on leadership and work communities, and themselves as leaders and work community members after completing a leadership course tailored for them.

Design/methodology/approach: The research material comprised reflective essays written by fifth-year dental students who had participated in a leadership course. The essays were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.