Publications by authors named "Elhadi Awooda"
Median maxillary labial frenum (MMLF) is one of the oral freni, found on the inner side of the centre of the upper lip. Maxillary midline diastema (MMD) is commonly associated with highly attached frenum, and frenectomy during early mixed dentition is controversial. A 6-year-old boy came with a chief complaint of unpleasant spacing between the two upper front teeth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has affected the delivery of healthcare services and posed enormous challenges to medical and dental care across the world. This article sought to explore various challenges implicated in the provision, access, and utilization of oral healthcare services in Sudan and to describe the current situation amid COVID-19. The oral health sector in Sudan has been experiencing multiple challenges in the delivery of dental care, and the current pandemic of COVID-19 has aggravated and multiplied the existing challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the great development of smart phone programs and applications, and the wide-spread of these devices among students, their use for the educational purposes remains weak. The study aimed to investigate to what extent utilizing mobile learning as an adjunct to classic classroom lectures affect students' academic achievement and, to assess their attitude toward using mobile application as an instructional method in dental education.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted among undergraduate dental students from two Sudanese universities.
Introduction: Tobacco use remains the most preventable cause of death and disability, with prisoners being a neglected population of tobacco users. The aim was to determine the prevalence of tobacco use and attitudes toward its prevention among adult male prisoners.
Methods: We conducted a descriptive cross-sectional study among 349 adult male inmates from three prisons in Khartoum State.
Background: Traumatic dental injury (TDI) is a challenging public health problem. Its incidence and prevalence vary within countries, states, and different social groups.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries in primary incisors among 3-5-year-old Sudanese preschool children and associated factors such as age, sex, and size of overjet and anterior open bite.
Aim: To radiographically evaluate the technical quality of root canal treatment performed by undergraduate dental students and compare the findings with other institution's work.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective, cross-sectional study was conducted at the Academy Dental Teaching Hospital involving postoperative periapical radiographs of patients who were endodontically treated by batch #14 undergraduate dental students of final year (2013-2014) from UMST, Sudan. The total number of the students was 21, while periapical radiographs fulfilling the required criteria were 173.
Background: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition affecting the airways leading to spasm and swelling of the airways. The medications taken for the treatment of asthma can result in dental erosion and dentin hypersensitivity.
Objectives: The aims of this study were to investigate the severity of dental erosion amongst adult asthmatics according to: gender, type and duration of medication taken and to compare dental erosion and dentin hypersensitivity between asthmatics and non-asthmatics.
Background: Dento-alveolar trauma is a very common occurrence in childhood; however, there is a paucity of data about children's judgments in relation to dental status. There is a significant correlation between the children's incisor teeth status and the social judgments made by their peers.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the social attributes of a school child would be influenced by his or her incisor teeth status.