Infant oral health examinations: attitudes and professional behavior of general and pediatric dentists in Michigan and pediatric dentists in the U.S.

Unlabelled: Caries in young children in the United States has increased since 1988. Infant oral health examinations (IOHE) provide opportunities to educate parents about preventing caries in young children. The objective is to explore attitudes and behavior concerning IOHE among general and pediatric dentists in Michigan and pediatric dentists in the remaining 49 U.

Preadolescent orthodontic treatment need: objective and subjective provider assessments and patient self-reports.

Introduction: In the age of evidence-based dentistry, an interesting question is whether dentists' subjective or general assessments of preadolescent orthodontic treatment need are correlated with objectively determined need. In addition, because children from socioeconomically disadvantaged and underrepresented minority backgrounds in the United States have limited or no access to orthodontic treatment, it is worthwhile to investigate whether unmet orthodontic treatment need is correlated with preadolescent smile assessments and desire for braces. Our objectives were to explore (1) whether pediatric residents' objective and subjective assessments of preadolescent orthodontic treatment need are correlated and also correlate with the treatment recommendations made, (2) whether preadolescent responses concerning their smile-related quality of life and desire for braces are correlate, and (3) whether dentist and patient assessments are related.

Objective, subjective, and self-assessment of preadolescent orthodontic treatment need--a function of age, gender, and ethnic/racial background?

Unlabelled: Children from socioeconomically disadvantaged and/or underrepresented minority backgrounds in the United States have limited or no access to orthodontic treatment.

Objectives: To determine whether preadolescents' (a) objectively assessed orthodontic treatment need; (b) subjectively assessed orthodontic treatment need; and (c) self-perceptions of the psychologic aspects of their oral health-related quality of life and desire to have braces vary as a function of age, gender, ethnicity/race, and socioeconomic status (SES).

Methods: Data were collected from 1,566 preadolescents (age range: 8 to 11 years; 47.

Early childhood caries and quality of life: child and parent perspectives.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of early childhood caries (ECC) on children's oral health-related quality of life (QOL) before and 4 weeks after its treatment, as assessed by the children themselves as well as by their parents/guardians.

Methods: This study had a longitudinal intervention design. Sixty-nine children diagnosed with ECC and 43 children without caries (combined children's mean age=50.