Publications by authors named "Febronia Kokulengya Kahabuka"
Purpose: To identify and assess the predictors of oral impacts on daily performance among adolescents in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among primary school pupils. A single stage cluster sampling design was used.
Background: Nylon teeth myth is a belief of associating infant illnesses with bulges on infants' alveolus that mark the positions of underlying developing teeth and that it is necessary to treat the condition mainly by traditional healers to prevent infant death. The traditional treatment often leads to serious complications that may lead to infant death. Although the government instituted educational campaigns against the myth in 1980s to 1990s, to date, repeated unpublished reports from different parts of the country indicate continued existence of the myth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Management of children's behavior is an integral component of pediatric dental practice.
Objective: To investigate the oral health care providers' awareness, use and factors for choice of behavior management techniques when attending paediatric dental patients.
Methods: A cross-sectional study among dental practitioners in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Background: Oral pain has been the major cause of the attendances in the dental clinics in Tanzania. Some patients postpone seeing the dentist for as long as two to five days. This study determines the prevalence of oral pain and barriers to use of emergency oral care in Tanzania.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dental trauma is common among children, and the maxillary permanent central incisors are the most often affected teeth.
Aim: This study aimed to investigate the risk factors for injury to maxillary permanent incisors and the upper lip among Tanzanian schoolchildren aged 8-14 years.
Design: A cross-sectional study involving 1119 children.