Oral hygiene & prevention
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 01 November 2021
Mouth rinses reduce SARS-CoV-2 in saliva, new research on JADA
Editorial Team
Mouth rinses can reduce the SARS-CoV-2 viral load in saliva, according to a study published in the November issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association.The cover story, "Estimating...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 01 November 2021
Missed appointements as an indicator of cross-infection prevention
Author: C. Tommaselli
Studies on dental cross-infections and related prevention measures abound in the literature, but no research on the effectiveness of the various measures has been proposed. That such measures have...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 20 September 2021
In a study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers from Yale School of Medicine looked at Covid-19 "breakthrough" infections in fully vaccinated people."In the United States, the...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 15 September 2021
Study of the University of Bologna as part of the Ergonomics, Posturology and Yoga Therapy Project for the Degree Course in Dentistry and for the Degree Course in Dental Hygiene
The study from the University of Bologna entitled “Musculoskeletal Disorders among Italian Dentists and Dental Hygienists” - conducted by an Italian team of the Dental Clinic directed by Prof....
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 30 August 2021
How to reduce aerosol spread during COVID-19 outbreak: a technical note
Author: Berton Federico
The aim is to reduce the aerosol spread during dental treatments. The system is made of an already existing structure: a dirty towel basket.
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 20 August 2021
Work demands and psychological distress among dentists: mediation role of covid-19-related factors
Authors:Maayan Shacham, Yaira Hamama-Raz, Liu Feng, Abhay N Datarkar, Luca Mangani, Julian Caplan, Anna Shacham, Roni Kolerman, Ori Mijiritsky, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Eitan Mijiritsky
Purpose: This study was designed to explore the mediating role of fear of COVID-19 infection from patients and fear of infecting family with COVID-19 in the association between work demands and...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 13 August 2021
Authors:Francesco Fugazzaro, Monica Giani, Umberto Pagliaro, Lorenzo Franchi, Michele Nieri
OBJECTIVES. The aim of this study was to evaluate the number of strokes of an interdental brush required to remove interproximal plaque; zero, one, two, four, eight, and sixteen interdental brush...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 17 June 2021
Authors: Monica Giani, Umberto Pagliaro, Lorenzo Franchi, Roberto Rotundo, Michele Nieri
Purpose. The aim of this randomized clinical trial with blinded examiner was to compare the efficacy of four different methods of enhancing oral hygiene motivation in: (i) reducing the full-mouth...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 13 June 2021
How to treat the older adults in the Covid-19 era: considerations and proposed solutions
The older adults in the dental field should generally be considered a "fragile" patient, to whom the clinician must pay particular attention. This "fragility" is linked to several factors: - Greater...
Authors:Ugo Consolo, Davide Bencivenni, Vittorio Checchi, Pierantonio Bellini
A new virus has been identified in China between the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020. In few months, this coronavirus spread quickly all around the world, leading to an acute respiratory...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 06 May 2021
Coronavirus contamination in dental clinics. New systems and operating devices
Maria Giovanna Gandolfi, Andrea Spinelli, Fausto Zamparini, Vittorio Sambri, Carlo Prati
Sanitary emergency of SARS-CoV-2 is radically changing all the procedures in dental clinics. A great number of health-care workers resulted affected by Coronavirus. Dentists work closely face-to-face...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 06 April 2021
Decontamination in the dental office: a comparative assessment of a new active principle
Authors:Marchetti Enrico, Mummolo Stefano, Mancini Leonardo, Quinzi Vincenzo, Pontieri Eugenio, Marzo Giuseppe, Campanella Vincenzo
The goal of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new surface disinfectant consisting of an antimicrobial metabolic substrate containing silver ions stabilized in citric acid...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 18 March 2021
Dental hygienists have a low COVID-19 infection rate despite predictions
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Author: Katherine Pfaff
Early in the pandemic, dental hygienists were deemed at high risk for contracting COVID-19 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). However, a study conducted through a...
Authors:M. Bazzano, R. Mauceri, V. Panzarella, O. Di Fede, G. Pizzo, R. Coniglio, D. Montemaggiore, G. Campisi
The purpose of this paper is to provide the oral health specialists the characteristics of the narrative interview, understood as different from the traditional anamnesis and able to detect the...
Author: Katherine Pfaff
Would-be patients have put off dental care, according to a recent survey from the American Association of Endodontists (AAE). Chicago-based AAE reported that more than half of those who completed the...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 02 March 2021
Author: Katherine Pfaff
Across the Atlantic, UK patients also reported a change in dental health habits. More than half (55%) of adult Britons said they had not taken care of their teeth properly, according to a study by...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 25 February 2021
The number of allergies has been growing continuously. According to the WHO, the number of allergy sufferers rose from 3% to 30% between 1960 and 1995. For Langen et al. (2013) the most common...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 23 February 2021
Authors: Daniela Sorrentino, Lucrezia Cinquanta, Stefania Pischetola, Niccolò Lombardi, Andrea Sardella, Christian Barbieri, Elena Maria Varoni
Although the decline in the prevalence of severe tooth loss in the last decades, the progressive aging of the population worldwide will sustain the percentage of partial or completely edentulous...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 04 February 2021
Chemical disinfectants in dentistry in the COVID-19 era: ‘common sense’ versus ‘COVID-19 sense’
Author: SJÖGREN PETTERI, DDS, PHD AND ZIMMERMAN MIKAEL, DDS, PHD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
A new coronavirus, subsequently named Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified in December 2019, in China, causing a previously unknown pneumonia in humans. This...
Author: Tommaso Albonetti
“Dentists, as trusted health care providers, have an opportunity to serve as a resource for evidence-based information, helping to educate colleagues and the public about the COVID-19 vaccination....
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