Publications by authors named "I C Punwani"
Purpose: To evaluate parental acceptance of provision of tobacco cessation and prevention education to children and parents by private practice pediatric dentists.
Methods: Receptionists gave confidential questionnaires to parents of child dental patients in five private pediatric dentistry practices. Demographic information and questions about dentist interventions were asked, with the most intrusive questions concerning parental tobacco use.
Background: Caries prevention traditionally has emphasized the restriction of cariogenic foods and beverages, but it has placed less emphasis on how the choice, combination and sequence of consumed foods and beverages may help reduce plaque acidogenicity. The authors conducted a study to examine whether whole milk, 100 percent apple juice or tap water affect dental plaque acidity in people after a sugary challenge.
Methods: Twenty adults participated in a randomized controlled crossover study.
Purpose: Early childhood caries is prevalent in the United States, especially among Hispanic children. One consequence may be premature loss of primary teeth, raising concern about developmental challenges. This study examined speech sound articulation errors association with premature loss of the primary maxillary incisors of bilingual children (Spanish/English).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study evaluated the effects of palatal stabilizing devices (PSDs) on accidental extubations (AEs) and other intubation complications in infants with breathing tubes at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a university hospital. PSDs are individually crafted acrylic oral devices for stabilizing breathing tubes in neonates.
Methods: Charts of all first admission NICU neonates weighing less than 1,500 g were reviewed (N =733); 548 were intubated and had information available on birth weight, gender, transfer status, gestational age, length of admission, ventilator type, sedation, dates of intubations and extubations, number of accidental extubations, dates of PSD placement, and complications.
Purpose: This study's purpose was to compare dental visits and oral health knowledge of African American (AA) and Hispanic American (HA) pregnant adolescents in a community health clinic.
Methods: Demographics, oral health knowledge, oral hygiene, and dental visits during pregnoncy were surveyed by anonymous questionnaire to adolescents who were pregnant at the time of the study or within the last year.
Results: Responses from 50 AA and 61 HA adolescents between 12 and 20 years old were analyzed.