Background: Bonding is an important step in fixed orthodontic therapy and evaluation of bracket bond failures while using different bonding systems is required. The aim of the present study was to evaluate and compare bracket failure rates of a novel no primer adhesive with conventional primer-based orthodontic adhesives.
Methods: This split mouth study was conducted among fifteen patients who underwent therapy with fixed orthodontic appliances using metal brackets.
Introduction: Over the past few years, there has been increasing emphasis on context-specific health literacy. However, no such context-specific psychometric tools are available with regard to oral health literacy. The aim of this study was to develop and validate an Orthodontic Health Literacy Tool (Orth-HLT).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Oral health literacy (OHL) is a relatively unexplored construct in the Indian context. Most of the few previous studies estimating OHL among different populations of India used instruments that were either previously validated in a different country or not tested for psychometric properties. With this background, the objective of this study was to develop an Indian oral health literacy measure and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the instrument among Telugu speaking population of Andhra Pradesh (IOHLM-T).
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