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.

Survey of family-related factors of children treated under dental general anaesthesia.

Aim: Treatment under general anaesthesia (DGA) is a rising trend in Finland. There is a great need to investigate the causes leading to it. Our purpose was to examine family-related factors reported by parents, such as the family size and favoring DGA in the family, and their influence on children being treated under DGA.

The influence of general health on the need for dental general anaesthesia in children.

Aim: To analyse the occurrence and causes of dental general anaesthesia (DGA) in healthy and medically compromised children, and to investigate if there are differences between those groups considering factors associated with DGA and DGA procedures.

Methods: The data was collected from medical records of children under 7 years of age treated under DGA in the years 2009 and 2010 at the Oulu University Hospital, Finland. The children were divided into two groups: 0-35-month-olds and ≥36-month olds.

Self-reported causes for referral to dental treatment under general anaesthesia (DGA): a cross-sectional survey.

Aim: To determine causes leading to dental care under general anaesthesia (DGA) in public health care reported by the patients or the parents/caregivers.

Study Design: All the patients referred to DGA at the Municipal Health Centre, Oulu, Finland, during 10 months were invited to participate in the present cross-sectional survey. They were sent a questionnaire on indications for referral to DGA, dental fear, possible reasons for it as well as prior treatment of dental fear.

Tooth by tooth survival analysis of dental health in girls with epilepsy.

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse, tooth by tooth, the timing of caries attacks leading to dental restoration in girls with epilepsy.

Study Design: The series comprised 60 girls with epilepsy, 8-18 years old, treated in the Departments of Paediatrics or Neurology of the Oulu University Hospital. A group of healthy age matched girls served as control.