Publications by authors named "Catherine A Watkins"
The relationships between dentist characteristics and professional education with involvement of Iowa dentists in hospice care were investigated. Using the 1999 Iowa Health Professional database, a survey requesting information regarding involvement in and training for care of hospice patients was mailed to all licensed dentists (N = 1,210). Two mailings yielded a 54.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the effect of a fluoride varnish on demineralization and remineralization of root surfaces in vitro.
Methods: 80 caries-free teeth were selected from a large pool of extracted anterior and premolar teeth from elderly patients. Acid resistant nail varnish was painted on all surfaces except for a window (l x 4 mm) on the buccal or lingual root surfaces.
Purpose: The purpose of this report was to describe the quantity of published literature and types of studies supporting the use of 4 pediatric dentistry procedures: (1) ferric sulfate pulpotomy; (2) stainless steel crowns; (3) space maintainers; and (4) atraumatic restorative technique (ART).
Methods: When available, titles and abstracts of reports written in English and published over a 36-year period (1966-2002) concerning these procedures were retrieved from MEDLINE. They were classified using a modified classification scheme that, in addition to the study designs, also considered the 4 dimensions of measuring dental outcomes.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to use the oral health impact profile (OHIP-14) to evaluate the impact of oral disease on the quality of life of a group of independently-living elderly persons in an urban area of Japan.
Subjects: A total of 1244 participants of the Senior Citizen's College, who attended the lectures once a week. They were community-dwelling, independently-living people over 60 years of age.
This paper attempts to identify characteristics of a longitudinal clinical study's "dropout" population (1974-1996) of patients using overdentures. This study included 395 subjects. Dropouts were identified as persons who did not respond to letters or telephone calls after participating in the study for up to 2 years, could not be located, or did not wish to return to the study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStatement Of Problem: No clinical study has evaluated the efficacy of fluoride varnish as a topical fluoride agent for the protection of overdenture abutments from dental caries.
Purpose: This study assessed the efficacy of a fluoride varnish in protecting overdenture abutments from demineralization in an in vitro environment.
Material And Methods: Eighty caries-free, extracted teeth were sectioned and domed immediately below the cementoenamel junction, simulating overdenture abutment preparations.
Tooth loss in the very old: 13-15-year incidence among elderly Iowans.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
February 2002
Objectives: Very few studies have reported tooth loss incidence over a period of 10 years or more, and fewer have reported tooth loss occurrence in subjects aged 80 and older, so that the long-term pattern of tooth loss in the very old is largely unknown. This study assessed 13-15-year tooth loss incidence among a cohort of Iowans, aged 65 and older at baseline.
Methods: Oral examinations were conducted on 520 subjects beginning in 1983, and periodically until 1988, with another round of examinations conducted on surviving members of the initial cohort during 1996-98.
Background: The authors compared the levels of anticipated and experienced pain of patients who received endodontic therapy, or ET, with selected patient and dental characteristics.
Methods: Sensory and affective pain outcome measures (pain and unpleasantness) were evaluated by 333 adult patients immediately before and after dental school faculty or residents performed ET. Dentists provided clinical evaluations and a pulpal diagnosis for each tooth and then rated the level of their patients' pain during treatment.