Comparison of accuracy of different dental age estimation methods in Finnish and Turkish populations.

Objective: The aims of this study were to assess the accuracy of Cameriere's and Demirjian's methods in Finnish children, and compare the findings with those of the Turkish children according to dental age.

Material And Methods: Dental panoramic tomography (DPT) of children (482 Finnish, 423 Turkish) aged between 5 and 15 years were evaluated. Comparison of mean difference between estimated and chronological age was evaluated.

Family-related risk indicators and dental attendance in association with dental caries in preschool children.

Background: Determining risk indicators behind dental caries is important for identifying children in need of enhanced dental care. The aim of this register-based study was to investigate the association of family-related risk indicators and dental attendance in the development of dental caries in preschool children.

Methods: The data for this study were collected from the medical records of 206 randomly chosen preschool children who lived in the city of Oulu, Finland, during 2014-2020.

Methods Helping Dentists to Detect Dental Fear.

Objectives: Dental fear is common and yet often remains unrecognised. COVID-19 has challenged health care since 2020. This study aimed to evaluate patients' self-reported dental fear and detection of dental fear by the dentists.

10-year follow-up study on attendance pattern after dental treatment in primary oral health care clinic for fearful patients.

Background: Dental fear may lead to avoidance of regular dental treatment. The scope of this long-term practe-based study was to monitor the dental attendance of patients who received chair-side dental and fear treatment.

Methods: In 2000-2006, patients in the City of Oulu, Finland, received treatment for dental fear in the Clinic for Fearful Dental Patients (CFDP) from primary health care dentists trained on this subject.

Dental attendance after treatment under dental general analgesia (DGA): a data-based follow-up study.

Aims: To investigate dental attendance of patients in different age groups after dental general analgesia (DGA) and procedures performed on these patients during the DGA and in dental care after the DGA during the follow-up period of almost 3 years.

Methods: The study population consisted of 66 patients who were treated under DGA at a municipal health centre in Oulu, Finland between September 2010 and June 2011. The electronic patient files of the DGA patients were accessible for data collection for the follow-up period of nearly 3 years.