Handbook of Dental Care: Diagnostic, Preventive and Restorative Services (Health Care Issues, Costs and Access Series)

460 Pages·2009·7.92 MB·English

by  Jose C. Taggart

Health Care Issues, Costs and Access Series

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JOSE C. TAGGART
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Handbook of dental care : diagnostic, preventive, and restorative services / [edited by] Jose C.
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1. Dentistry--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Taggart, Jose C.
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Contents

Preface vii
Chapter 1 Psychological Perspectives on Oral Health Behaviours 1
A. L. Dumitrescu, L. Zetu and Silvia Teslaru
Chapter 2 The Oral Preventive and Care Measures for Head and Neck Cancer 35
Sirikarn Sutthavong and Pornchai Jansisyanont
Chapter 3 Advances in Paediatric Restorative Dentistry 91
Giuseppe Pizzo, Daniela Lo Re, Ignazio Pizzo and
Giovanna Giuliana
Chapter 4 Evidence-Based Decision Making - Implications for Dental Care 117
Francesco Chiappelli, Olivia S. Cajulis, Oluwadayo Oluwadara
and Manisha Harish Ramchandani
Chapter 5 Traumatic Dental Injuries: Preventive and Public Health
Approaches 147
Giuseppe Pizzo, Maria E. Licata and Giovanna Giuliana
Chapter 6 Professional Exposure to Infectious Pathogens in the Dental and
Stomatological Environment 163
Roberto Manfredi
Chapter 7 Cross Infection Risk in Dental Practice: Evaluation of
Environmental Contamination and Personnel Knowledge and
Behavior in Italian Public Dental Practices 183
Giorgio Liguori, Christian Napoli, Paolo Castiglia, Francesca
Gallé, Maria Teresa Montagna, Cesira Pasquarella and SItI
Working Group “Hygiene in Dentistry”
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Chapter 8 Treating Children with Cleft Lip and Palate: Special Needs and
Attention Required During Dental Care 199
Gisele da Silva Dalben, Beatriz Costa, Cleide Felício de Carvalho
Carrara, Lucimara Teixeira das Neves and Marcia Ribeiro Gomide
Chapter 9 The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Diagnosis and Treatment
Planning in Orofacial Disharmonies 267
Hassan Noroozi and Mani Hamzian
Chapter 10 Down Syndrome: Need for Jaw Stabilization to Prevent Dysphagia 281
Marie-Noëlle Mazille, Emmanuel Nicolas, Jean-Luc Veyrune,
Valérie Roger-Leroi and Martine Hennequin
Chapter 11 Computer-Aided Oral Implant Surgery 295
Gerlig Widmann
Chapter 12 A Computer-Aided Oral Implantology System in the Placement of
Zygoma Implants for Maxillary Reconstruction 333
Chen Xiaojun
Chapter 13 Considerations in Dental Care in Implant-Treated Patients 347
Jun-Beom Park
Chapter 14 Principal Mycoses of the Oral Cavity 357
M. T. Montagna, R. Iatta, C. Napoli, F. Gallè and G. Liguori
Chapter 15 Prevention of Aspiration Pneumonia in the Elderly by Reducing
Oropharyngeal Microflora 371
Akira Ishikawa, Yoichiro Miyake, Takeyoshi Yoneyama and Kokichi
Miyatake
Chapter 16 Patient Autonomy and the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Dentistry:
A Review of Research 387
Stephen M. Auerbach
Short Communication
A The Importance of Pre-Extraction Radiographs 401
L. M. Sykes and R. F. Tadi
B A Simple Method to Ensure Sufficient Occlusal Reduction in Fixed
Prosthodontics 407
L. M. Sykes and T. C. N. Buleni
Index 413
Preface

This book focuses on new research in dentistry practices. Dentistry is the known
evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the
oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on
the human body. Dentistry is widely considered necessary for complete oral health. It usually
encompasses a number of very important practices related to the oral cavity. The most
common being dental surgery on the teeth as a treatment for dental cavities. Oral and
maxillofacial surgery is also a common surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases,
injuries and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and
maxillofacial region. Many oral diseases and abnormalities can indicate systemic, neural, or
other diseases. Research on these and other issues related to dental care are discussed in this
new book.
Chapter 1 - Psychological science has new opportunities to have major input into the
understanding of oral health behaviour. This article provides an overview of advances in
understanding the personality characteristics that predispose the development of certain
patterns of behaviour: type A behavior pattern, perceived stress, emotional intelligence,
aggression, impulsivity, sensation seeking, instability of self-esteem, affective lability, social
inhibition, mood, worry, positive and negative affect, social desirability, social intelligence,
self-consciousness, anger, self-control, self-confidence, self-competence, self-liking, body
investment, body appreciation, perfectionism, sense of hopelessness, worry, type C coping,
resilience, hope, self-criticism, narcissism, achievement motives, satisfaction with life and
happiness, hardiness, self-concept, self-regulation, proactive coping and attitude, social
physique anxiety, shyness, sociability and social comparison. It suggests that it is now time to
develop conceptual models that integrate our understanding of separate psychosocial
predictors, to explain what oral health behaviour is initiated and how it is maintained or
changed.
Chapter 2 - Oral assessment and care are essential prior to cancer treatments in order to
decrease both incidence and severity of oral complications. Appropriate interventions have to
be performed before the beginning of cancer treatments and/or during the treatment period. It
is necessary to regularly perform the oral preventive and care measures by including
appropriate counseling to the patients, so they are able to take care of themselves up to the
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desired outcome as well as the periodically follow up after the treatments of cancer. This
review focuses on the oral preventive and care measures for head and neck cancers.
Chapter 3 - Dental caries has been a highly prevalent and costly disease in the world,
representing the most common infectious disease in the paediatric population. Caries lesions
are also increasingly isolated in specific teeth and tooth morphology types, and there is
growing controversy about the most appropriate restorative material for these lesions in
deciduous teeth. In fact, restorative materials continuously improved in durability, strength,
aesthetics, and anti-cariogenic properties. Moreover, the increasing demand for aesthetic
restorative treatment has totally transformed the practice of paediatric dentistry in the last
decade. Traditionally, the use of amalgam was a standard procedure in the restoration of
carious primary teeth. Because of the introduction of adhesive restorative materials, the
treatment of proximal caries has changed. The principal advantage of these new materials is
that they require less retention form and this is particularly important in primary teeth to
conserve the relatively thin enamel that could help prevent subsequent carious invasion of
dentin.
When planning dental treatment for paediatric patients, each subject and restorative
material to be used should be evaluated on an individual basis, in order to provide appropriate
care within each material's limitations. This chapter reviews the evolution of restorative
materials used in paediatric dentistry, from the amalgam to bonding materials. The current
trends and future directions in material research are also discussed. The chemical
composition and the physico-chemical properties of the following materials are reported:
Amalgam; Stainless steel crown restorations; Pit and fissure sealants; Dentin/enamel
adhesives (from the first to the seventh generation); Glass-ionomer cements; Resin-based
composites; Compomers. In order to assist the practitioner in the restorative dental care of
children and adolescents, the clinical use and the cost-effectiveness of the various materials
currently used in paediatric restorative dentistry are also discussed, with a special focus on
the dentin/enamel adhesives.
Chapter 4 - Restorative and prosthodontic dental care refer respectively to fixing or to
replacing teeth. Whether the dentist intervenes to fill cavities, produce crown or fixed
bridges, or engages in the extraction of the affected dental structures and the replacement
with some kind of prosthetic device, such as dentures or implants, was largely dependent,
until recently in the traditional model of dental care, on sound diagnostic principles,
expressed patient needs and wants, and the dentist’s expertise. The novel model of dental
care that has become increasingly established in the first few years of this new Century is one
that strives to complement the former model by a strong reliance on the consensus obtained
from all of the best available evidence. By being grounded on systematic reviews and meta-
analyses of the entire body of evidence for any clinical case encountered, dental care now
evolves and establishes itself as an evidence-based clinical science par excellence.
This chapter reviews and discusses the fundamental elements of evidence-based
decision-making in dental care. It contrasts the implications and applications of evidence-
based dental care for restorative and prosthodontic services, by presenting specific clinical
examples for special target populations (e.g., tooth decay in the elderly). It concludes with a
set of practical suggestions for dentists seeking to be at à l’avant garde of this movement,