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Risk analysis of factors in clinical anxiety among undergraduate and postgraduate students in dentistry

Ahmad P, Chaudhary FA, Asif JA, AlSagob EI, Alkahtany MF, Almadi KH, et al.

Work, 2022;71(1):177-186.

PMID: 34924411 DOI: 10.3233/WOR-205093

BACKGROUND: When anxiety is persistent among dental students, the consequence could be poor academic performance, ill health, lack of empathy, and exhaustion.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the level of anxiety along with anxiety-provoking factors among clinical dental students.

METHODS: This study included dental undergraduate and postgraduate clinical students from a public university. A modified version of the self-administered Moss and McManus questionnaire, which consisted of 50 items, was utilized to evaluate the levels of anxiety. The results were analyzed using SPSS® version 24. The significance level was set at p

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry

Fulltext Ozone- A Biological Therapy in Dentistry- Reality or Myth?????

Naik SV, K R, Kohli S, Zohabhasan S, Bhatia S

Open Dent J, 2016;10:196-206.

PMID: 27386005 DOI: 10.2174/1874210601610010196

The usage of ozone in dentistry has been proposed because of its antimicrobial, disinfectant, biocompatibility and healing properties. In the last decade a number of therapeutic protocols with ozone have been developed to address common dental infections associated with periodontal disease, RCT and caries. Despite these advantages, therapeutic ozone's application in dentistry is limited because of its possible side effects. Hence, dental practitioners need to know the proper usage of ozone therapy that can provide better patient care and considerably cut down the time and cost of the treatment.

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry

Dentistry and the Pandemic: A Year of Reckoning

Vijayan SP, Pandarathodiyil AK

J Contemp Dent Pract, 2021 Apr 01;22(4):325-326.

PMID: 34266997

In March 2020, the world that we know irrevocably changed forever. It feels like "Groundhog Day" all over again, and it seems that the nightmare is here to stay. It all began on the January 8, 2020, when China grimly announced that coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by the "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2" (SARS-CoV-2)1 but it was not until March 2020 that the situation swiftly careened out of control and is unequivocally posing the greatest challenge to humanity worldwide since the end of the Second World War. While the scientific community heroically galvanized itself and raced against time to provide viable solutions to this formidable foe in the form of vaccines, the worldwide dental fraternity has had to grapple with an extraordinary situation evolving in real-time and ensure that we responded robustly to this daunting health emergency that has spared no corner of our beloved planet. Initially, COVID-19 ensured cessation of all non-urgent dental care in most parts of the world but with increasingly significant inputs about the nature of the pathogen from the scientific community, the dental community has been able to cobble together a workable plan in reconfiguring and restructuring the dental practice in consonance with the situation at hand. It is fiendishly arduous to estimate the massive impact on the dental profession, but it is safe to assume it to be substantial.

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry

Racial characteristics of human teeth with special emphasis on the Mongoloid dentition

Yaacob H, Nambiar P, Naidu MD

Malays J Pathol, 1996 Jun;18(1):1-7.

PMID: 10879216

Determining the racial affinity of an unknown individual from dentition for identification is indeed a difficult endeavour. However, there are certain dental characteristics which are predominant in certain racial groups and these contribute important indicators in the identification process. Inherited dental characteristics are modified by prenatal and postnatal environmental and nutritional conditions. They can also become less discernible due to admixture of the various races.

Matched MeSH terms: Forensic Dentistry/methods

Fulltext Association between emotional intelligence and perceived stress in undergraduate dental students

Saddki N, Sukerman N, Mohamad D

Malays J Med Sci, 2017 Mar;24(1):59-68.

PMID: 28381929 DOI: 10.21315/mjms2017.24.1.7

BACKGROUND: This study investigated the association of emotional intelligence (EI) and other factors with perceived stress (PS) in undergraduate dental students.

METHODS: A total of 234 undergraduate dental students at the School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), in the academic year of 2009/2010, participated in this cross-sectional study. Self-administered questionnaires, the Assessing Emotions Scale and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), were used to evaluate EI and PS, respectively.

RESULTS: The mean EI score was 121.2 (SD 11.85). The scores were significantly higher in females than males, and in students who chose dentistry based on their own interest rather than in those who were motivated by others to study dentistry. The mean PSS-10 score was 21.2 (SD 5.08). Pearson correlation analysis indicated a significant inverse relationship between EI and PSS-10 scores (r = -0.337). Multi-variable regression analysis also indicated a significant negative linear association between EI and PSS-10 scores (b = -0.156, 95% CI: -0.207, -0.104). PSS-10 scores were significantly higher for students who were in the clinical years rather than the preclinical years.

CONCLUSIONS: This study of USM undergraduate dental students shows that a low EI, female sex, and being in the clinical years were significant predictors of PS.

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry

The education of dental nurses and dental technicians, Malaya, Malaysia

Sundram CJ

J Dent Aux, 1965 Oct;3(1):28-36.

PMID: 5228914

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry

The Children's Dental Centre and the new Dental Training School for Dental Nurses and Dental Technicians located in Penang, Malaya

J Dent Aux, 1965 Oct;3(1):37-8.

PMID: 4225832

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry; Pediatric Dentistry

Public Dental Health Services, Malaya

Nawab Din AK

J Dent Aux, 1965 Oct;3(1):4-14.

PMID: 5228917

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry; Public Health Dentistry

Report of the Dental Services Union Federation of Malaya, September 1964 to September 1965

Teong SE

J Dent Aux, 1965 Oct;3(1):39-40.

PMID: 5228916

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry; State Dentistry

Identification from a bitemark in a wad of chewing gum

Nambiar P, Carson G, Taylor JA, Brown KA

J Forensic Odontostomatol, 2001 Jun;19(1):5-8.

PMID: 11494677

A wad of used chewing gum recovered from the scene of a burglary contained impressions of human teeth. Casts of these impressions displayed unique morphological characteristics which were found to show concordance with corresponding features present on casts of the posterior teeth of a suspect.

Matched MeSH terms: Forensic Dentistry/methods*

Copper vapour laser ID labelling on metal dentures and restorations

Ling BC, Nambiar P, Low KS, Lee CK

J Forensic Odontostomatol, 2003 Jun;21(1):17-22.

PMID: 12793127

Denture marking is accepted as a means of identifying dentures and persons in geriatric institutions, or post-mortem during war, crimes, civil unrest, natural and mass disasters. Labelling on the acrylic resin component of the denture can easily be damaged or destroyed by fire but on cobalt-chromium components it would be more resistant. A copper vapour laser (CVL) can be used to label the cobalt-chromium components of dentures and metal restorations easily, and legibly, and miniaturised for the incorporation of more personal particulars necessary for the identification of the deceased person. The CVL beam is focussed by its optics and delivered to the material surface by the two-axis scanner mounted with mirrors. A personal computer controls the movement of the scanner and the firing of the CVL. The high peak power of the pulsed CVL is focussed to very high energy density producing plasma ablation of the alloy surface. Very fine markings of a few microns width can be produced enabling the storage of detailed information of the deceased person on a metal surface for the purpose of rapid identification.

Matched MeSH terms: Forensic Dentistry

Third molars in the establishment of adult status--a case report

Nambiar P, Yaacob H, Menon R

J Forensic Odontostomatol, 1996 Dec;14(2):30-3.

PMID: 9227080

Teeth are the most durable structures in the human body. The timing and sequence of their development, as contained in dental development charts, have been used as valid criteria for age determination. The third molars however are the last teeth to erupt and are regarded as the most variable in the dentition. Age estimation in a legal context, using developing third molars must be carefully applied otherwise justice may miscarry. A case of wrongful use of the technique is presented here.

Matched MeSH terms: Forensic Dentistry/legislation & jurisprudence; Forensic Dentistry/methods*

Patient education and preventive care in Malaysian dental practice

Abdul Razak I, Lind OP

J Clin Pediatr Dent, 1994;18(4):313-22.

PMID: 7811664

A questionnaire survey was conducted to examine the attitudes of Malaysian dentists toward patient education and preventive dentistry and the level of preventive care adopted in Malaysian dental practice. An adjusted response rate of 73.1% was obtained. Generally the Malaysian dentists had positive attitudes towards patient education and preventive dentistry including fluoridation. However, a sizable proportion of them considered that preventive measures were no challenge for the dentist. The common preventive measures given to patients were scaling, dental health education, prophylaxis and instruction in correct brushing and flossing in as much as 40 to 50 percent of the queried dentist claimed that these preventive items were provided to most or all of their new patients. In spite of the fact that the majority of the dentists had good knowledge about the application and effects of sealants only about 41 percent of the dentists claimed to have used sealants. More dentists in the private sector reportedly having done so. Also many Malaysian dentists (18.5%) did not use leaded protection for any of their new patients when taking radiographs.

Matched MeSH terms: Preventive Dentistry/statistics & numerical data*

A glimpse of obscure history of dentistry in Malaysia-Singapore

Lum CM

Dent J Malaysia Singapore, 1970 Oct;10(2):41-2.

PMID: 5279745

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry; History of Dentistry

The role of the dental surgeon in the overall medical situation arising during times of war or civil disaster in the light of military dentistry

Lin VY

Dent J Malaysia Singapore, 1970 Oct;10(2):16-9.

PMID: 5278504

Matched MeSH terms: Dentistry; Military Dentistry

The role of the dental surgeon in the overall medical situation arising during times of war or civil disasters in the light of military dentistry