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Preventive Dentistry

Known as: Dentistries, Preventive, Dentistry, Preventive, Preventive Dentistries 
The branch of dentistry concerned with the prevention of disease and the maintenance and promotion of oral health.
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2006
2006
Effectiveness of an educational intervention in oral health for pediatric residents.
Review
1993
Review
1993
Preventive goals in oral implantology.
Preventive dentistry is mainly concerned with caries and periodontal disease and little or no attention is paid to the prevention… 
1991
1991
Prevention and rehabilitation of pressure ulcers.
Pressure ulcers continue to constitute a major medical problem that interferes with the care of elderly and debilitated patients… 
Review
1984
Review
1984
Indications for sealant use in a community-based preventive dentistry program.
Dental caries is a disease that recently has undergone, and may still be undergoing, dramatic changes in distribution of… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
Knowledge and attitudes of schoolteachers toward oral health programs and preventive dentistry.
Because teachers often take on major roles in school dental health programs, three surveys were completed between 1973 and 1981… 
1980
1980
Fluorides in preventive dentistry.
: Caries prevention with the aid of administration of fluoride in a great variety of forms has been extensively studied in the… 
1978
1978
Five years of community preventive dentistry and health education in the county of Sutherland, Scotland.
Examination of 11-year-old Scots children who had participated in a 5-year, fortnightly dental health education and preventive… 
Review
1977
Review
1977
Report of the Committee on Scientific Investigation of the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry.
Review
1977
Review
1977
Oral hygiene and gingival health in Danish dental students and faculty.
This survey attempted to determine the status of oral cleanliness and gingival health in 150 dental students and 101 faculty… 
Review
1970
Review
1970
The current status of topical fluorides in preventive dentistry. Council on Dental Therapeutics.
Hundreds of clinical studies conducted during the past 25 years have evaluated the use of topical fluorides in protecting the… 
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