This article presents a technique for the stabilization of rubber dam clamps with Triad visible light cured resin. This technique offers many advantages over the traditional method utilizing impression compound.
This article presents a technique for the stabilization of rubber dam clamps with Triad visible light cured resin. This technique offers many advantages over the traditional method utilizing impression compound.
(1) Behavior management is only in part a science and must be recognized as an art form to health care delivery. (2) The goals of behavior management are to achieve good dental health in the child patient and to help develop the child's positive attitude toward dental health. (3) The objectives of behavior management are to establish communication and to foster education, thereby alleviating fear and anxiety and building a trusting relationship between dentist and child. (4) All decisions regarding behavior must be based on a benefit versus risk evaluation. (5) Parents share in the decision-making process regarding treatment of their children.
To gain insight into the dental needs of high school students, the Newport News Health Department conducted a survey of 236 tenth graders in a city high school. Ages ranged from 14 to 17 with approximately half of the students black and half white. The average DMFT for whites (3.21) was not significantly different from that for blacks (3.64) (p = .332) nor was it different for gender (female 3.58, male 3.28; p = .498) thereby indicating a very similar caries experience for both race and gender. The average F/DMFT indices, however, were significantly different for race (p < .0001) and those for gender quite close to statistical significance ( p = .083). Females have the highest filling needs met (74.3%) followed by white males (47.8%), black females (32.5%) and black males (31.4%). Unmet dental needs for both whites and blacks were found to be considerably higher than those for the U.S. as a whole as well as for those from the southeast. The greater dental needs, especially among blacks and males, may reflect limited access to dental care or a lower perceived need for such care. Sealants were present in 23% of the students compared with 7% nationwide. There was a significant association between the presence of sealants and students qualifying for dental care at the Health Department through the school free lunch dental program (p = .036).
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