Publications by authors named "Tshepo Gugushe"
Tobacco use and oral sex (OS) are important risk factors for oral and oropharyngeal Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Little is known about the prevalence of OS practice in South Africa. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of OS practice and tobacco use in a South African patient population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To undertake formative studies investigating how the experience of dental caries in young children living in diverse settings relates to familial and cultural perceptions and beliefs, oral health-related behaviour and oral microflora.
Participants: The scientific consortium came from 27 sites in 17 countries, each site followed a common protocol. Each aimed to recruit 100 families with children aged 3 or 4 years, half from deprived backgrounds, and within deprived and non-deprived groups, half to be "caries-free" and half to have at least 3 decayed teeth.
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how dentists' beliefs and attitudes might hinder their ability to provide dental care to young children, using the Barriers to Childhood Caries Treatment (BaCCT) Questionnaire as a measurement tool.
- - A total of 2,333 dentists from 14 countries participated, revealing four potential barriers to care, with key issues being young children's coping abilities and dentists' personal stress and time constraints.
- - The research concluded that while the BaCCT Questionnaire is a valid tool, the ability of dentists to provide care is influenced by healthcare systems and these effects differ by country, indicating a need for further research in this area.
Unlabelled: OBJECTIVE; The aim of this international study was to develop a valid and reliable psychometric measure to examine the extent to which parents' attitudes about engaging in twice-daily tooth brushing and controlling sugar snacking predict these respective behaviours in their children. A supplementary objective was to assess whether ethnic group, culture, level of deprivation or children's caries experience impact upon the relationships between oral health related behaviours, attitudes to these respective behaviours and to dental caries.
Clinical Setting: Nurseries, health centres and dental clinics in 17 countries.
Objective: Long-term aim is to determine optimum interventions to reduce dental caries in children in disadvantaged communities and minimise the effects of exclusion from health care systems, of ethnic diversity, and health inequalities.
Design: Generation of initial explanatory models, study protocol and development of two standardised measures. First, to investigate how parental attitudes may impact on their children's oral health-related behaviours and second, to assess how dentists' attitudes may impact on the provision of dental care.