Tweeting about pain: comparing self-reported toothache experiences with those of backaches, earaches and headaches.

Background: The authors conducted a study of tweets posted on Twitter to compare self-reported toothache experiences with those of backache, earache and headache in regard to pain intensity, action taken, perceived cause and effect of pain.

Methods: From a total of 508,591 relevant tweets collected on seven nonconsecutive days, the authors randomly selected 1,204 tweets (301 per pain type) and conducted content analyses of each tweet.

Results: Toothaches were described as having higher pain intensity than were earaches or headaches but pain intensity comparable with that of backaches.

Counseling patients on preventing prenatal environmental exposures--a mixed-methods study of obstetricians.

Objective: Describe the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of U.S. obstetricians on the topic of prenatal environmental exposures.

Dentists' willingness to provide expanded HIV screening in oral health care settings: results from a nationally representative survey.

Objectives: Using a nationally representative survey, we determined dentists' willingness to provide oral rapid HIV screening in the oral health care setting.

Methods: From November 2010 through November 2011, a nationally representative survey of general dentists (sampling frame obtained from American Dental Association Survey Center) examined barriers and facilitators to offering oral HIV rapid testing (n = 1802; 70.7% response).

PRE-VIEW: Development and Pilot Testing of An Interactive Video Doctor Plus Provider Alert to Increase Cancer Screening.

Background: Interventions to increase recommended cancer screening tests and discussions are needed.

Methods: We developed PRE-VIEW (The ventive deo ducation in aiting Rooms Program), a multimedia cancer prevention intervention for primary care clinics based on the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change We pilot tested PRE-VIEW An Interactive Video Doctor plus Provider Alert for feasibility and acceptability in primary care clinic settings in the San Francisco Bay Area, California in 2009-2010.

Results: Eighty participants (33 men and 47 women; more than half non-white) at 5 primary care clinics were included.

The impact of an oral health program on domestic violence survivors within community shelters.

Background: The authors conducted a study to evaluate the impact of an oral health treatment program on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) for women who were domestic violence (DV) survivors living in community shelters.

Methods: After completing DV education, dental residents provided treatment to female survivors of DV (n = 37) at on-site clinics. They administered pretest and posttest surveys to participants to assess their OHRQoL in terms of pain, impact of oral health on functioning and discomfort, embarrassment and quality of life overall to the participants.