Unacceptable Behaviors Towards Health Professional Clinical Students: Protocol For a Mixed-Methods Study.

Background And Aims: Previous studies describe the occurrence of unacceptable behaviors reported by students pursuing health professional education in Aotearoa, New Zealand and across the globe. These include, but are not limited to, experiences of verbal abuse, sexual harassment, and discrimination based on race/ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, and sexual orientation. University of Otago teaching staff across the various health professional programs often receive anecdotal reports of these phenomena from their clinical students.

Time to complain about pain: Children's self-reported procedural pain in a randomised control trial of Hall and conventional stainless steel crown techniques.

Background: Children's pain in dentistry has undesirable short- and long-term consequences; therefore, less invasive treatments merit consideration.

Aim: To investigate procedural pain scores for two treatments for carious primary molars in New Zealand primary care.

Design: This study was a split-mouth randomised control trial, with secondary outcome analysis.

Dental high-speed handpiece and ultrasonic scaler aerosol generation levels and the effect of suction and air supply.

Objective: Exposure to aerosol spray generated by high-speed handpieces (HSHs) and ultrasonic scalers poses a significant health risk to oral health practitioners from airborne pathogens. Aerosol generation varies with different HSH designs, but to date, no study has measured this.

Materials And Methods: We measured and compared aerosol generation by (1) dental HSHs with 3 different coolant port designs and (2) ultrasonic scalers with no suction, low-volume evacuation (LVE) or high-volume evacuation (HVE).

Te Kaupeka Pūniho: New Zealand's new dental school.

A look at the history of the only dental school in New Zealand situated at the University of Otago since it was first founded in 1905. It has moved twice within campus since then, with its most recent move seeing a brand new and award-winning building being opened in March 2021.

Oral health of children in Aotearoa New Zealand-time for change.

Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has a long tradition of providing publicly funded oral health care for children and young people; however, substantial inequities in child oral health remain. Dental caries is the most prevalent non-communicable childhood disease in NZ, with Māori and Pasifika, those from low socio-economic backgrounds, and those without access to community water fluoridation most affected. Children and whānau with dental caries suffer consequences that seriously affect their day-to-day lives; it is critical not to underestimate the disease or fail to include it when considering children's overall health.

Dental students' perceptions of the long case.

Introduction: The long case examination is used to assess clinical competency in dental education. However, the academic literature, much of which is in medical education, highlights concerns regarding the relevancy and authenticity of the long case. To date, dental students' experiences of the long case have been under-researched.

New Zealand's School Dental Service over the Decades: Its Response to Social, Political, and Economic Influences, and the Effect on Oral Health Inequalities.

New Zealand's School Dental Service (SDS) was founded in 1921, partly as a response to the "appalling" state of children's teeth, but also at a time when social policy became centered on children's health and welfare. Referring to the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) conceptual framework, this review reflects upon how SDS policy evolved in response to contemporary constraints, challenges, and opportunities and, in turn, affected oral health. Although the SDS played a crucial role in improving oral health for New Zealanders overall and, in particular, children, challenges in addressing oral health inequalities remain to this day.

The effect of education on oral health students' attitudes in Australia and New Zealand.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the oral health attitudes and behavior of students in the oral health curriculum in Australia and New Zealand.

Materials And Methods: The Hiroshima University - Dental Behavioral Inventory was administered to students in the first (year 1) and final years (year 3) of the oral health curriculum at Charles Sturt University in Australia and the University of Otago in New Zealand. A total of fifty-two year 1 students and forty-five year 3 students completed English version of the questionnaire in 2013.

Initial University of Otago oral health graduates' employment pathways and preparedness for work.

Objectives: To examine University of Otago BOH graduates' post-graduation pathways and employment experiences; and graduate, employer and host therapist perspectives of the new BOH programme and student/ graduate preparedness for work.

Design: A survey-based qualitative research project.

Setting: Private and public oral healthcare settings.

Epidemiological measures of childhood asthma: cross-sectional and longitudinal consistency.

Background: Defining childhood asthma varies considerably, and the extent of agreement between various measures is not clearly understood in the absence of a recognized 'gold standard'. We compared different definitions of childhood asthma, identified characteristics that might have influenced their accuracy and an acquisition of an 'asthma' label in wheezy and treated children.

Methods: Using a prospective, population-based birth cohort of 623 children followed up to the age of 14 years the concordance between parental opinion, doctor's diagnosis reported by the parent and asthma's diagnosis in general practice (GP) was analysed using latent class analysis (LCA).

New Zealand's oral health students--education and workforce implications.

Objectives: To obtain background information on the Oral Health (OH) students at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and the University of Otago in order to aid in the recruitment of students; to determine the extent of the students' professional knowledge; and to determine their future employment preferences.

Method: Cross-sectional survey of all OH students at AUT and the University of Otago in 2008. A questionnaire was given to all 165 OH students at both Universities, and the response rate was 100%.

Dental therapists and dental hygienists educated for the New Zealand environment.

New Zealand has a long history of dental care provided by school dental nurses, now known as dental therapists. The nature of their training courses, although delivered in different centers, had remained relatively constant until 1999 when educational responsibility was transferred to the universities. Dental hygienists were not trained in New Zealand until 1994, with the exception of the New Zealand Army hygienists.

Recorded infections and antibiotics in early life: associations with allergy in UK children and their parents.

Background: It is suggested that the inverse relationship between allergic disease and family size reflects reduced exposure to early life infections, and that antibiotic treatment in childhood diminishes any protective effect of such infection.

Methods: A birth cohort study was undertaken in 642 children recruited before birth and seen annually until the age of 8 years. Reported infections and prescribed antibiotics by the age of 5 years were counted from GP records and comparisons were made with a previous study of their parents.

Outcomes two, three and four years after comprehensive care under general anaesthesia.

Objectives: The objective was to review the outcomes for three groups of children after two, three and four years following comprehensive dental treatment under general anaesthesia (GA) for 292 children aged 1.8 to 5.9 years of age.