Tracking of parents' attitudes to their children's oral health-related behavior-Oslo, Norway, 2002-04.

Objectives: To investigate dental beliefs and attitudes of a diverse group of parents from their children when they were aged 3 and 5 years old and to identify possible mediators for a group composed of the parents with the most negative dental attitudes.

Material And Methods: Data were collected by parental questionnaire when the children were aged 3 years in 2002 and again 2 years later. The inclusion criteria were children with mothers from Norway (N group) or non-Western countries (IM(1) group).

Caries increment in children aged 3-5 years in relation to parents' dental attitudes: Oslo, Norway 2002 to 2004.

Objectives: To assess the relationship between parents' dental attitudes and the caries increment in their children from the age of 3 to 5 years.

Methods: Data based on parental questionnaires and dental examinations were collected from children participating in a follow-up study from age 3 years (n = 354) in 2002 to 5 years (n = 304) in 2004. The children were categorized as western-native (WN) and immigrants (IM).

Orthodontic treatment need in French schoolchildren: an epidemiological study using the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need.

This survey was undertaken to assess the orthodontic treatment need in a sample of 9- to 12-year-old French children (mean age: 9.77 years; standard deviation: 0.84) attending 12 different schools in the same geographic area of Ile de France.

Dental status and measures of deprivation in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Background: Many background variables, such as socioeconomic status (SES), may be measured at the level of the individual or using some ecological indicators.

Objectives: This study aimed to examine, in 5- and 10-year-olds in Clermont-Ferrand, the relationship between household SES indicators, SES measured as an area-based ecological variable and dental status.

Methods: All 5- and 10-year-olds attending public schools in deprived and semi-deprived zones (n = 15) and six other randomly selected schools in Clermont-Ferrand were invited to participate.

Parental risk attitudes and caries-related behaviours among immigrant and western native children in Oslo.

Objectives: Immigrant children make up a large proportion of the school populations in many western cities. It is likely that their parents have different attitudes and knowledge of dental health than resident populations, and thus provide a challenge to public dental services. This study sought to map existing disparities in oral health among immigrant and western native children in Oslo and to identify differences in parental, cultural and ethnic beliefs and attitudes towards oral health and caries-related behaviours.

Caries experience in the primary dentition among French 6-year-olds between 1991 and 2000.

Background: There are few national caries preventive policies for children in France. Various surveys suggest that in the late 1980s, oral health of the 6-year olds in France was poorer than in those of other European countries. In Val de Marne (a Department just east of Paris) a public dental service was established in 1991.

French dentists' restorative treatment decisions.

Purpose: Variations in decision-making about restorative treatments have been demonstrated among dentists in several countries. This study sought to assess the restorative treatment philosophies based on a representative sample of French dentists.

Materials And Methods: A sample (n = 2000) was randomly extracted from a national list (n = 42,000).

Dental status and oral health quality of life in economically disadvantaged French adults.

Expansion of French health insurance coverage has increased funding for dental care for economically disadvantaged adults. This study aimed to measure clinical and self-perceived oral health, behaviors, and use of dental services by adults who were eligible for such coverage. The regional agency that gives administrative services for the health insurance funds provided a sample of 900 adults aged 35-44 years, insured through this program.

Restorative treatment strategies reported by French university teachers.

Disparities among dental schools concerning the teaching and practice of cariology and operative dentistry can lead to variations in students' treatment modalities that can have health and economic consequences for patients and third party providers. The purpose of this study was to assess caries management strategies taught in French dental schools employing a questionnaire used in a previous study involving private dentists. The study population consisted of 180 teachers of operative dentistry.

Dental fluorosis decline after changes to supplement and toothpaste regimens.

Unlabelled: In 1989/90, in 659 12-year-olds in Perth (F 0.8 mg/L) and the Bunbury region of Western Australia (WA) (F approximately 0.25 mg/L), dental fluorosis prevalences were 40.