Assessing Oral Health Status, Practices, and Access to Care among War-Affected Refugees Living in San Antonio, Texas.

Objectives:  Refugees encounter several health disparities including oral health problems. This study evaluated the self-reported oral health status, practices, and access to care of adult refugees living in San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Materials And Methods:  Adult refugees ( = 207) who accessed services from two centers in San Antonio, completed this survey.

Relationship between General Health Behaviors and Oral Health Behaviors in 2015-2016 NHANES Adult Population.

Objectives:  The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between general health behaviors and oral health behaviors in adults who participated in the interview component of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of 2015 to 2016.

Materials And Methods:  This was a cross-sectional study design of a national data set that included 5,992 adults who represented a sample of civilian, noninstitutionalized US population.

Statistical Analysis:  Chi-squared test of independence was used to describe the relationship of demographic information with oral health behaviors of participants.

Co-relationships between glandular salivary flow rates and dental caries.

Objective: This study was designed to evaluate the relationship of age, gender, ethnicity and salivary flow rates on dental caries in an adult population using data collected from the Oral Health San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging (OH: SALSA).

Background: Saliva is essential to maintain a healthy oral environment and diminished output can result in dental caries. Although gender and age play a role in the quantity of saliva, little is known about the interaction of age, gender and ethnicity on dental caries and salivary flow rates.

Maternal acculturation: could it impact oral health practices of mexican-american mothers and their children?

A mother's cultural beliefs can affect her infant's health, but the influence of acculturation of Mexican-American women on their young children's oral health is unknown. The authors hypothesized that maternal acculturation impacts very young children's oral health practices favoring, in particular, the mothers who are more Anglo-oriented. A convenience sample of 204 predominantly Mexican-American women attending the Women, Infants, and Children Clinic in San Antonio, Texas, completed the Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, Social Support, and Self-Efficacy of Oral Health (KASE-OH) and Acculturation Questionnaires.