1,720,996 research outputs found
Dental floss : a habit to be introduced in routine oral hygien
No full textA educação em saúde é uma estratégia importante na prevenção de doenças e promoção da saúde. A maioria da população não mantém uma rotina satisfatória de higiene bucal, utilizando o fio dental diariamente. O objetivo desse estudo foi investigar os motivos que levam à resistência e à não adesão ao fio dental pela população em geral. A metodologia utilizada foi a apresentação de um artigo na forma de uma revisão narrativa de literatura sobre a utilização do fio dental, através de levantamento nas bases de dados de domínio público BIREME, MEDLINE, LILACS, e Google Acadêmico, além da biblioteca virtual SciELO. Os autocuidados com higiene bucal são importantes medidas preventivas nas doenças cárie, gengivite e doença periodontal. O fio dental é um excelente instrumento na remoção do biofilme dental nas superfícies proximais, inacessíveis para a escova. Foram analisados 5 artigos e observou-se que vários motivos levam os pacientes a não utilizar o fio dental diariamente: condições socioeconômicas e culturais desfavoráveis; falta de conscientização de sua importância; falta de compreensão da técnica; falta de conhecimento, prescrição e instrução apropriada por parte dos dentistas; ausência de hábito; pressa e esquecimento. Os estudos demonstram que adesão ao fio dental, como um hábito diário de higiene bucal, é muito baixa na população em geral. Mesmo em populações ou grupos mais favorecidos do ponto de vista socioeconômico e cultural, não é muito frequenteHealth education is an important strategy in preventing disease and promoting health. Most of the population does not maintain a satisfactory oral hygiene routine, flossing daily. The aim of this study was to investigate the reasons that lead to resistance and non-adherence to floss by the general population. The methodology used was the presentation of an article in the form of a literature narrative review on the use of dental floss by lifting the BIREME public domain databases, MEDLINE, LILACS, and Google Scholar, besides SciELO virtual library. The self-care with oral hygiene are important preventive measures for caries, gingivitis and periodontal disease. Dental floss is an excellent tool in the removal of biofilm on the proximal surfaces, inaccessible to the brush. We analyzed 5 articles and it was observed that various reasons lead patients not to use floss daily: socioeconomic and cultural conditions unfavorable; lack of awareness of its importance; lack of technical understanding; lack of knowledge, prescription and proper education by the dentists; absence of habit; difficulties in motor coordination; absence of habit; hurry and forgetting .Studies have shown that adherence to dental floss, as a daily habit of oral hygiene is very low in the general population. Even in more advantaged populations or groups of socio-economic and cultural point of view, it is not very frequen
Dentes natais e neonatais : diagnóstico e conduta
No full textDentes natais e neonatais são dentes que erupcionam no período intrauterino ou em até trinta dias após o nascimento, respectivamente, com base na classificação mais aceita atualmente, de Massler e Savara (1950). Este estudo objetivou apresentar uma revisão narrativa da literatura sobre dentes natais e neonatais, ressaltando a importância do conhecimento desta anomalia de erupção para o cirurgião-dentista e demais membros da equipe de saúde, abordando os fatores etiológicos, características clínicas e condutas terapêuticas. Foi realizada busca ativa de informações nas bases de dados do National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NCBI/PUBMED), Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO), Cochrane Library e Google Acadêmico. Os dezesseis artigos incluídos na revisão final mostraram que o início da erupção dentária ocorre, normalmente, por volta do sexto mês de vida. Entretanto, existem crianças que nascem com dentes presentes na cavidade oral, ou que erupcionam em até trinta dias após o nascimento, sendo chamados de dentes natais e neonatais respectivamente, podendo fazer parte da dentição decídua normal ou serem dentes supranumerários. Frequentemente, estes dentes apresentam bordas incisivas afiadas, o que pode causar ulcerações no ventre lingual da criança e trauma no mamilo materno, dificultar a amamentação e comprometer a saúde do lactente. É comum apresentarem mobilidade acentuada, devido ao pobre desenvolvimento radicular, gerando risco de deglutição ou aspiração pela criança. A conduta terapêutica é definida com base na dentição à qual pertencem e nas possíveis complicações que estes dentes podem causar para criança e mãe. Conclui-se que o conhecimento desta anomalia, bem como de suas características clínicas, são de suma importância para a realização de um diagnóstico correto, possibilitando assim, uma abordagem terapêutica adequadaNatal and neonatal teeth are the ones that erupt in intrauterine period or within thirty days after birth based on the most accepted classification of Massler and Savara. The aim of this study was to present a narrative review of the literature on natal and neonatal teeth, highlighting the importance of knowing this eruption anomaly by dentists and other members of the health team, addressing the etiological factors, clinical characteristics and therapeutic behaviors. An active information search was carried out in the databases of the national Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NCBI/PUBMED), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), Cochrane Library and Google scholar. The sixteen articles included in the final review showed that the onset of the dental eruption usually occurs around the sixth month of life. However, there are children who are born with teeth present in the oral cavity, or that erupt within 30 days after birth, being called natal and neonatal teeth respectively, being able to be part of the normal deciduous dentition or to be supernumerary teeth. Often these teeth have sharp incisive edges, which can cause ulcerations in the child\u27s tongue and trauma to the mother\u27s nipple, hinder breastfeeding and compromise the health of the infant. It is also common to present mobility, due to poor root development, generating risk of swallowing or aspiration by the child. Therapeutic behavior is defined based on the dentition to which they belong and on the possible complications that these teeth can cause for child and mother. It is concluded that the knowledge of this anomaly, as well as its clinical characteristics, are important in order to make a correct diagnosis, thus enabling an appropriate therapeutic approac
Quais as influências do baixo letramento em saúde bucal de pais e cuidadores na saúde das crianças sob suas responsabilidades?
No full textLetramento funcional em saúde (LFS) é definido como a capacidade que o indivíduo possui de obter, processar e compreender informações básicas sobre saúde e serviços necessários para decisões adequadas de saúde. A influência do baixo letramento funcional em saúde dos cuidadores tem sido estudada em diversos países do mundo a fim de avaliar as consequências na qualidade de vida das crianças. A saúde em seu aspecto multifatorial, traz a discussão ao âmbito da saúde bucal e pesquisa o grau de influência do entendimento e adesão das práticas de saúde para a formação de hábitos que previnam e controlem doenças bucais. Com objetivo de avaliar a evidência científica relativa à associação entre baixo LFS parental e influências na saúde bucal das crianças, utilizamos como principal banco de dados científicos a página online PUBMED. Estudos que avaliaram os resultados da saúde bucal de crianças e mediram LFS dos cuidadores através de questionários validados foram incluídos. Dois revisores independentes selecionaram os estudos, extraíram dados e analisaram o risco de viés. Seis estudos foram incluídos, a metade (n = 3) apresentou um alto risco de viés. A maioria dos estudos que avaliaram a cárie dentária encontrou associação entre o baixo LFS de pais e maior prevalência/ experiência de cárie dentária. Estudos divergiram sobre a associação entre baixo LFS dos pais e o número de dentes restaurados, extraídos e visitas ao dentista. Demais divergências associadas ao baixo LFS dos cuidadores ocorreram entre a frequência de escovação dos dentes das crianças, tipo de dentifrício, auto percepção de saúde bucal das crianças, percepção parental negativa da saúde bucal da criança, gastos com saúde bucal e uso de mamadeira noturna. Os resultados desta pesquisa evidenciaram a carência de entendimento e a baixa alfabetização em saúde e a necessidade de conscientização da responsabilidade dos cuidadores no cuidado com a saúde bucal de seus dependentesFunctional health literacy (FHL) is defined as the individual\u27s ability to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services necessary for appropriate health decisions. The influence of low functional literacy on caregivers\u27 health has been studied in several countries around the world in order to assess the consequences on children\u27s quality of life. Health in its multifactorial aspect brings the discussion to the field of oral health and research the degree of influence of the understanding and adherence of health practices to the formation of habits that prevent and control oral diseases. In order to evaluate the scientific evidence regarding the association between low FHL parental and influences on children\u27s oral health, we use the PUBMED online page as the main scientific database. Studies that evaluated the oral health outcomes of children and measured FHL of caregivers through validated questionnaires were included. Two independent reviewers selected the studies, extracted data, and analyzed the risk of bias. Six studies were included, half (n = 3) presented a high risk of bias. Most of the studies that evaluated dental caries found an association between the low FHL of parents and higher prevalence / experience of dental caries. Studies diverged on the association between low FHL of the parents and the number of teeth restored, extracted and visits to the dentist. Other disagreements associated with the low FHL of the caregivers occurred between the frequency of tooth brushing of the children, type of toothpaste, self- perception of oral health of the children, negative parental perception of the oral health of the child, oral health expenses and nighttime bottle use. The results of this research evidenced the lack of understanding and the low literacy in health and the need to raise awareness of the caregiver¿s responsibility in the care of the oral health of their dependent
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
- …
