Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Parents and Oral Health-related Information.

Purpose: To assess 1) how socioeconomically disadvantaged parents receive information about their child's oral health, 2) how they prefer to access information and 3) whether their gender, age, ethnicity/race, education, income and the number of children in their family affect oral health-related information use.

Materials And Methods: Survey data were collected from 506 parents/guardians at a pediatric community dental clinic. The majority of the respondents were female (87%) and African American (54%).

In vitro study of the diagnostic performance of the Spectra Caries Detection Aid.

Objective: The Spectra Caries Detection Aid is a fluorescent camera (FC) caries detector device that has been demonstrated to detect occlusal caries extending into dentin with good sensitivity and specificity. This in vitro study examined the diagnostic performance of this device with the goal of defining the numerical reading that best indicates that a tooth has dentin caries.

Methods: Ninety extracted human third molars, that either appeared clinically intact or had early occlusal caries, were used.