Dental treatment profile of New Zealand Defence Force personnel.

Objective: To evaluate the dental treatment provided over one year to serving personnel and new entrants in the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF).

Method: Dental treatment data from 4,380 personnel in the 12 months following their last annual dental examination were retrieved and evaluated from electronic data archives. These included all treatment provided for 2000 randomly-selected regular serving personnel and for all 2380 new entrants entering the Service in the years 2005 and 2006.

Dental status of New Zealand Defence Force personnel.

Background: No epidemiological data are available on the dental health of New Zealand Defence Force personnel.

Aim: To describe the oral health status of serving personnel and new entrants in the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF).

Method: The dental records of 4,380 personnel were transcribed from an electronic archive of individual clinical data.

Artificial mouth model systems and their contribution to caries research: a review.

The complexity of the oral environment, and ethical problems associated with studies of oral diseases in humans inevitably directed the attention to development of laboratory models, that simulate the human oral microcosm. These developments and in particular the in vitro 'artificial mouth' systems have progressed from simple and basic apparatus devised by Magitot and Miller at the end of 19th century to the currently available, highly sophisticated, computer-controlled, multi-station artificial mouth systems. These advances have metamorphosed from the early studies devised primarily to investigate factors affecting the carious process to the present designs that evaluate growth, pathogenicity, metabolism and mineralization of dental plaque under highly controlled conditions.