Patient Experiences of Therapeutic Jaw Exercises in the Treatment of Masticatory Myofascial Pain: A Qualitative Study.

Aims: To investigate patients' experiences of therapeutic jaw exercises for treating masticatory myofascial pain.

Methods: A total of 10 patients were selected for the interview study. All patients had received treatment with jaw exercises at a specialist clinic.

Dental hygienists working in schools - a two-year oral health intervention programme in swedish secondary schools.

Purpose: To investigate the possibility of influencing adolescents' caries incidence, knowledge and attitudes to oral health and tobacco through a school-based oral health intervention programme.

Materials And Methods: Four schools in a county in Sweden were randomised to one intervention and one control group. At the intervention schools, two dental hygienists worked 4 h every week for two years.

The impact of behavioural interventions on young people's attitudes toward tobacco use.

Purpose: The objective of the present study was to study the ability to influence young at-risk patients' attitudes toward tobacco use through two intervention methods that were performed by dental health professionals.

Materials And Methods: Two interventions, a brief individual motivational interview and an adapted school lecture, were studied, and both were compared with a control group. Before and after interventions, a questionnaire was used.

Knowledge of and attitude to oral health and oral diseases among young adolescents in Sweden.

The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge of and attitudes to oral health among 12- and 15-year-old students in Sweden. The results are designed to act as a baseline survey to evaluate future interventions. From all 85 schools in the County of Uppsala, ten schools were randomly selected.