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Black teeth: beauty or caries prevention? Practice and beliefs of the Kammu people.
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
April 2006
WHO Collaborating Centre, Faculty of Odontology, University of Malmo, Malmo, Sweden.
Background: To be beautiful and caries-free, Kammu women in Laos and Vietnam habitually paint their teeth black. Although this practice existed for many generations, it is now known only among the elderly.
Objectives: To describe how the tooth-blackening procedure is performed and to test the black stain for possible antimicrobial effects in laboratory experiments.
Estimation of global DMFT for 12-year-olds in 2004.
Int Dent J
December 2005
WHO Collaborating Centre, Centre for Oral Health Sciences, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
Oral health information systems--towards measuring progress in oral health promotion and disease prevention.
Bull World Health Organ
September 2005
Global Oral Health Programme, Department of Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
This article describes the essential components of oral health information systems for the analysis of trends in oral disease and the evaluation of oral health programmes at the country, regional and global levels. Standard methodology for the collection of epidemiological data on oral health has been designed by WHO and used by countries worldwide for the surveillance of oral disease and health. Global, regional and national oral health databanks have highlighted the changing patterns of oral disease which primarily reflect changing risk profiles and the implementation of oral health programmes oriented towards disease prevention and health promotion.
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Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
August 2005
Department of Cariology, Faculty of Odontology, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
This paper reviews some common methods for the assessment of caries risk. It also describes a new way of illustrating the caries risk profile of an individual, the Cariogram. Past caries experience and socioeconomic factors are often used for prediction of caries.
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