Dental Treatment Needs Among 16-Year-Old Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate: An Observational Study in Western Norway.

Objectives: This study aimed to a) assess intermaxillary sagittal relations, dental alignment, and occlusion among patients with Cleft Lip and/or Palate (CL/P) and b) evaluate the need for future dental treatment.

Material/methods: Clinical assessment, lateral cephalogram, orthopantomogram, and study models from 1019 patients with CL/P collected at age 16 from the Bergen national CLP team in Norway. Records included the number of dental agenesis or hypoplasia, ANB angulation, dental alignment, occlusion, oronasal fistula, and indications for future dental treatment needs.

Immigrant Parents' Knowledge and Attitudes: Sociodemographic Variation Related to Restriction of Children's Sugar Intake.

Purpose: Focusing on immigrant parents with children aged 0-6 months, this study assessed whether awareness of and attitudes towards restricting children's sugar consumption vary according to family sociodemographic background and parents' oral-health-related behaviours.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted including immigrant parents attending child public health centers for vaccination of their children. The study included parents born in Asia, Africa, South America, Central America and Eastern Europe.

Treatment of Traumatic Dental Injuries in the Public Dental Services-A Qualitative Exploration of Perceived Challenges and Needs.

Background/aim: This study explored perceived challenges in the management of traumatic dental injuries (TDI) among general dentists in the public dental service (PDS) of Vestland County in Western Norway and their needs for improving treatment care for TDI patients.

Participants And Methods: This qualitative study conducted three focus group discussions. We recruited a purposive sample of seven general dentists employed in the PDS in Vestland County in Western Norway.

Use of dental care services among adolescents living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment in Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: The primary purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and socio-behavioral determinants of ever-use of dental care services among adolescents aged 10-18 years, living with HIV, on Antiretroviral treatment (ART), and attending selected HIV clinics in Kampala, Uganda.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out between March and September 2020. The study conveniently recruited 154 adolescents between 10 and 18 years old from 4 specific HIV clinics in Kampala.

Orthodontic Status and Association with Oral-Health-Related Quality of Life-A Study of 16-Year-Old Norwegians with a Cleft Lip and Palate.

Objective: To assess the association between clinical orthodontic indicators and oral-health-related quality of life, adjusted for socio-demographic factors, focusing on 16-year-old patients with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P).

Participants: One hundred and twenty-two patients with CL/P, representing cleft-lip (CL), cleft-palate (CP), unilateral/bilateral cleft-lip-palate (UCLP/BCLP), enrolled in the national CLP-Team, Bergen, Norway.

Method: A cross-sectional study by two orthodontists assessing the number of teeth, intermaxillary sagittal relation (ANB-angle), dental arch and occlusion of 16-year-old patients with CL/P.

Association of child abuse and neglect training with filing reports of concern to child welfare services: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The aptitude, knowledge, and competence of dental health personnel on child abuse and neglect (CAN) is not optimal for deciding when to file a report of concern to child welfare services (CWS).

Objectives: The aim of this study was, firstly, to assess the association of the public dental health personnel 's (PDHP) training on CAN received in the last three work years, i.e.

Traditionally removed mandibular central incisors and oral health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study among adolescents in Maasai populated areas, Northern Tanzania.

Background: The traditional removal of mandibular anterior teeth has been existing for many years in the Sub-Saharan African countries. This study aimed to assess the prevalence and sociodemographic distribution of traditionally removed mandibular central incisors (TRMCI) and its association with oral impact on daily performance (OIDP) among adolescents in Maasai populated areas in the Northern part of Tanzania.

Methods: Using a two-stage cluster sample design, with schools as the primary sampling unit, 23 out of 66 eligible rural schools were randomly selected.

Serum and salivary inflammatory biomarkers in juvenile idiopathic arthritis-an explorative cross-sectional study.

Background: Biomarkers may be useful in monitoring disease activity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). With new treatment options and treatment goals in JIA, there is an urgent need for more sensitive and responsive biomarkers.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the patterns of 92 inflammation-related biomarkers in serum and saliva in a group of Norwegian children and adolescents with JIA and controls and in active and inactive JIA.

Use of dental care services among adolescents living with HIV on Antiretroviral Treatment in Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: The main purpose of this study to assess the prevalence and socio-behavioural determinants of ever-use of dental care services among the adolescents aged 10-18 years, living with HIV on Antiretroviral treatment (ART), attending selected HIV clinics in Kampala, Uganda.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out between March and September 2020. The study conveniently recruited 154 adolescents between 10-18 years from 4 specific HIV clinics in Kampala.

Information sharing between the dental healthcare and child welfare services regarding child maltreatment-A repeated cross-sectional study in Norway.

Background: Little is known about dental healthcare workers reported suspected child maltreatment to and received inquiry from the child welfare services (CWS).

Aim: Assess time lag differences in public dental healthcare workers' information sharing with CWS and identify sociodemographic and attitudinal covariates of information sharing with CWS in 2014 and 2019.

Design: In 2014 and 2019, a national census of 1542 and 1791 Norwegian dental health care workers, respectively, were invited to participate in an electronic survey.

Assessing association of dental caries with child oral impact on daily performance; a cross-sectional study of adolescents in Copperbelt province, Zambia.

Background: Dental caries and child oral impact on daily performance (C-OIDP) have been linked in several studies. However, the studies used caries indices, which limit the ability to examine how C-OIDP prevalence varies across various stages of the dental caries process. Furthermore, cross-cultural differences between Zambia and other African countries where the C-OIDP instrument has been widely used necessitate testing its pychometric properties.

Oral health inequalities in Swedish older adults over 25 years of follow-up.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe inequalities in tooth loss and dissatisfaction with teeth related to time-invariant and time-variant socio-demographic characteristics and use of dental care across the middle and older life course and to assess whether oral health inequalities remain stable, widen or narrow from age 50 to 75.

Materials And Methods: In 1992, 6346 residents, aged 50, consented to participate in a prospective cohort study including postal questionnaire follow-ups every fifth year until age 75. Tooth loss and dissatisfaction with teeth were assessed at each survey wave in addition to socio-demographic factors and use of dental care.

Association between oral and general health related quality of life among Norwegian patients with substance use disorders in opioid agonist therapy.

Objective: Assess the association between oral and general health related quality of life using oral impacts on daily performances (OIDP) and the quality of life tool EQ-5D-5L from EuroQoL among patients with substance use disorder (SUD) who receive opioid agonist therapy.

Method: 609 patients with SUD completed the EQ-5D-5L. A dental sub-study of 167 patients completed OIDP and an oral examination when attending outpatient clinics in Western Norway for their opioid agonist therapy.

Exploring avoidance of dental care due to dental fear and economic burden -A cross-sectional study in a national sample of younger adults in Norway.

Aim: To assess the prevalence of dental avoidance due to dental fear and economic burden and its distribution by utilization of dental care and socio-behavioural characteristics.

Method: A sample of 9052 Norwegian adults aged 25-35 years was invited to participate, and 2551 completed electronic questionnaires regarding lifetime prevalence of dental avoidance due to fear and last year prevalence of dental avoidance due to economic burden.

Results: Cancelled- and avoided ordering appointments due to fear amounted to 14.

The dentist-patient relationship and oral health-related quality of life among older adults: A cohort study.

Objectives: To assess the association between aspects of the dentist-patient relationship at age 65 and Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (OIDP) at ages 65 and 70 and to examine whether dental avoidance behaviours play a role in explaining that association.

Background: Information about the quality of the dentist-patient relationship is important for dental care provision and healthy ageing.

Method: Secondary data analysis of a cohort study of Norwegians born in 1942.

Oral health-related quality of life in 4-16-year-olds with and without juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Background: Few studies have investigated oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in young individuals with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Aims were to investigate whether OHRQoL differs between children and adolescents with JIA compared to controls without JIA, while adjusting for socio-demographic-, behavioral- and oral health-related covariates. Furthermore, to explore whether socio-behavioral and oral health-related covariates of OHRQoL vary according to group affiliation and finally, specifically for individuals with JIA, to investigate whether disease-specific features associate with OHRQoL.

Role of behavioural and age-related factors in the long-term impact of tooth loss on oral health-related quality of life: A 25-year follow-up of Swedish older adults.

Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to assess any long-term association between tooth loss at age 50 and subsequent impaired oral health-related quality of life, OHRQoL, at age 65, 70 and 75, adjusted for time invariant socio-demographic-and time variant behavioural and age-related factors in terms of disadvantages with functional, social, health and psychological concerns. As a second aim, this study examined whether behavioural- and age-related factors played a role in explaining any long-term association between early tooth loss and subsequent OHRQoL.

Methods: In 1992, 6346 residents, aged 50, consented to participate in a prospective cohort study and 3060 completed postal questionnaire follow-ups every fifth year (six in total) until 2017.

Vitamin D, oral health, and disease characteristics in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a multicenter cross-sectional study.

Background: Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with autoimmune diseases and oral health. Knowledge about the association between vitamin D status and oral conditions in JIA is limited. We aimed to investigate vitamin D status in a cohort of Norwegian children and adolescents with JIA and possible associations between serum vitamin D levels, clinical indicators of oral health, and JIA disease characteristics.

Dental plaque and gingival bleeding in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and controls: a multilevel analysis.

Objective: To explore whether plaque and gingival bleeding are more frequently experienced by adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) compared to matched controls without JIA; explore whether surface- and site-specific periodontal outcomes vary between the two groups; and for participants with JIA, investigate associations between disease-specific features and periodontal outcomes.

Material And Methods: In this comparative cross-sectional study, selected surfaces, and sites of index teeth in 10-16-year-olds with JIA and matched controls were examined by modified versions of Simplified Oral Hygiene Index (OHI-S) and Gingival Bleeding Index (GBI). Mixed-effects logistic regressions, reporting odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI), were applied.

Association of oral bacteria with oral hygiene habits and self-reported gingival bleeding.

Aim: To describe associations of gingival bacterial composition and diversity with self-reported gingival bleeding and oral hygiene habits in a Norwegian regional-based population.

Materials And Methods: We examined the microbiome composition of the gingival fluid (16S amplicon sequencing) in 484 adult participants (47% females; median age 28 years) in the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia (RHINESSA) study in Bergen, Norway. We explored bacterial diversity and abundance differences by the community periodontal index score, self-reported frequency of gingival bleeding, and oral hygiene habits.

Facilitators for use of oral healthcare services among people with substance use disorders: a qualitative study in Norway.

Objective: Opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) patients in Norway are eligible for free oral healthcare services; however, oral health morbidity remains high and the uptake of services among this patient group is low. As knowledge of the reasons for the low uptake of services among OMT patients is insufficient, this study adopted a qualitative approach to explore this from the perspectives of patients and dental healthcare workers (DHWs).

Material And Methods: Through focus group and individual interviews, data were collected from 63 participants: 30 patients receiving OMT and 33 DHWs.

Regional variations in caries experience, predictors, and follow-up among children and adolescents in Western Norway.

Objective: To identify regional differences in, and determinants of dental caries among children in western Norway.

Material And Methods: We studied dental caries in 705 children aged 12 years and 18 years living in the southern region ( = 403) and other parts of Hordaland County ( = 302) in Norway. Information on oral hygiene, fluoride intake, and sugar consumption was collected using questionnaires.

Dental health personnel's experience with receiving inquiries from child welfare services: a national cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To assess if and to what extent public dental health personnel (PDHP) receive inquiries from child welfare services (CWS), and to assess whether PDHP's experience of receiving inquiries is associated with PDHP's characteristics and whether the associations are influenced by PDHP's experience of reporting to CWS.

Material And Methods: Questionnaires were distributed to 1542 PDHP in Norway. Descriptive statistics were used for analysis.

Predicting intention of Norwegian dental health-care workers to use nanomaterials: An application of the augmented theory of planned behavior.

Due to the rapid development of nanotechnology and its integration into dentistry, there is a need for information on the factors influencing the decision of dental health-care workers to use nanomaterials. Based on a national survey among Norwegian dentists and dental hygienists, this study applied the theory of planned behavior (TPB), augmented with past behavior and perceived risk, to predict the intention to use dental nanomaterials in the future and to assess whether an augmented TPB model operates equivalently across professional groups. Structural equation modelling was used to assess whether the hypothesized model fits the data.