Publications by authors named "Sandra Graca"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how space missions impact oral health, highlighting challenges like increased periodontitis and tooth sensitivity experienced by astronauts.
- It involved 16 participants, including astronaut candidates, who compared their oral hygiene practices on Earth versus during simulated space missions, emphasizing difficulties like time constraints and limited access to dental materials.
- Results indicate that while most participants maintained a "good" oral hygiene routine, they faced more symptoms on Earth than during missions, suggesting that more research is needed to better understand oral health in extreme environments.
Background: Use of electronic methods to support informed consent ('eConsent') is increasingly popular in clinical research. This commentary reports the approach taken to implement electronic consent methods and subsequent experiences from a range of studies at the Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU), a large clinical trials unit in the UK.
Main Text: We implemented a remote eConsent process using the REDCap platform.
Objectives: To relate the oral health of individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS) with their oral characteristics, habits, and difficulties in terms of oral hygiene and the perception of oral health of the guardians.
Methods And Results: This observational transversal study included 31 volunteers who belong to the Portuguese Fragile X Syndrome Association. A questionnaire was presented to guardians, and a head and neck and oral examination was performed to the individuals: decay, missing and filled teeth index (DMFT) = 4.
Aims: The study aimed to assess and compare the self-reported oral health knowledge, habits, and perceptions of adolescents in Portugal, Romania, and Sweden and the factors that may affect them.
Materials And Methods: An oral health questionnaire with 25 questions was put together in English language and translated into Portuguese, Romanian, and Swedish language to investigate and compare oral health-related knowledge, habits, and perceptions of adolescents from the different countries. A voluntary sample of 879 teenagers completed it, mean aged 14.
The Dental Hygienists in Sweden and Portugal: A Comparative Study.
J Int Soc Prev Community Dent
June 2019
Aims And Objectives: The aim of the present study was to identify the dental hygienists (DHs)' working areas and compare these findings between Sweden and Portugal.
Materials And Methods: A web-based questionnaire was sent by E-mail to all 2943 members of the Swedish DH Association and 381 members of the Portuguese DH Association. The questionnaire contained questions about; number of years of work, which patient groups they worked with, if they had got sufficient knowledge from the education and what different tasks they worked with.
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence malocclusion between individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and a control group without disability (NID).
Methods: A total of 202 individuals (123 with ID and 79 with no impairment) were included in the study. Data were collected through oral examinations using the Angle classification of malocclusion and the dental aesthetic index (DAI).